Keaton’s obsession proved to be useful research for the design of her fabric collection, which features strong prints expressed in (what else but) menswear-inspired monochromatics and rich textures. The kitchen in The House That Pinterest Built “I’m addicted, I can’t help it.”Ī bedroom from The House That Pinterest Built “Magazines are still my go-to,” she confesses. “I’m not kidding when I say that my office is filled to the brim with black binders of graphics I like, all broken up by visuals of house projects and the old Spanish homes I like to look at.” The actress has a weakness for Spanish colonial architecture – she even called one home: a Spanish colonial revival-style villa nestled in Beverly Hills. “Paper is my medium,” she says, laughing. Keaton is a particularly voracious collector of tearsheets and magazine visuals. Keaton at the Oscars in 1976 © Frank Edwards/Fotos International/Getty Images And last spring came Keaton’s second design book, Saved: My Picture World, a photographic autobiography of graphics and collages she has been collecting over decades and which illustrate very well her singular, less-is-more aesthetic style. It’s not her first foray into interiors: in 2017, she released her first design book, The House That Pinterest Built, highlighting her creative process in a tome that brought her early-1920s Los Angeles home to life. This October will see her launch a debut fabric collection with the textile house S Harris. It’s this fascination with fabric and interiors that now offers Keaton, 76, an alternative career. The House That Pinterest Built (Rizzoli, £50) While Keaton’s style has evolved in the intervening decades, her simple monochromatic silhouettes have stayed the same: most recently she set the internet ablaze as the inspiration behind TikTok’s viral “coastal grandmother”, prompted by Keaton’s turtleneck-wearing, linen-crazed character in Nancy Meyer’s rom-com Something’s Gotta Give. And the residual Annie-effect has since inspired generations of designers who have paid homage to her loose-fitting ties, haphazardly buttoned vests, wide-legged pants and insouciant hat tilts. The performance catapulted the then 30-year-old Keaton into stardom. It changed everything.”Īn exterior shot from The House That Pinterest BuiltĪ bathroom from The House That Pinterest Built The actress remembers: “Woody would say, ‘Wear what you wear’, and it was a bit of a mind shift because was a true reflection of me. “That was the beginning of something really great for me, but I didn’t know it would inspire anyone else,” she adds, admitting that she remains shocked by how much the character resonates decades later. When I did Annie Hall, Woody would let me figure out what I wanted to wear,” she says of the director’s confidence in her personal style. It changed everythingīut it was Keaton’s 1977 portrayal of Annie in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall that endeared her to audiences in a way the actor never anticipated. ‘Annie Hall’ was a true reflection of me.
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