Cole Escola has just picked up Marie Dressler’s autobiography. The silent film star had many transitions throughout her career, from vaudeville to playhouses to silent films and, much later, the talkies, during which she won a late-in-life Academy Award for Best Actress. As Escola sees it, they’re having a bit of a Dressler moment as well.
No, we may not see the official New York Fashion Week social channels covering the former stripper’s otherworldly presentations, but at this point, it’s an iykyk type thing: every season, the real ones huddle inside whatever space is designated like a biannual mandatory meeting. In formation, they wait to see what phase of evolution the “Anna Bolina girl” will take on like Pokemon.
