Author, magazine writer, lecturer, and interior designer Cathy Whitlock’s work has appeared in magazines and homes across the country.

She is the author of the upcoming book A Century of Hollywood Art Direction (Harper Collins, October, 2010, working title) and re-de-sign: New Directions for the Interior Design Career (Fairchild Books/Conde Nast, June, 2009) A contributing writer for Traditional Home magazine, Cathy has also written film, interior design and celebrity profiles for Veranda, American Airlines Celebrated Living, Architectural Digest, Glamour UK, Array, ASID Icon and Four Seasons Hotel magazines. She also writes the blog Cinema Style that chronicles trends, inspiration, and designs in the movies.

A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Cathy appeared as a frequent on-air personality on Home and Garden Television’s top-rated Decorating With Style. In a former life before design, she was with Universal Pictures, British film producer Sir Lew Grade’s ITC Entertainment and a manager of Consumer Card Marketing with the American Express Company where she worked on the original “cause-related” cultural funding campaign.

Blog Entries by Cathy Whitlock

Cinema Style: Top Style Film Moments of 2009

Posted December 28, 2009 | 10:44 AM (EST)


As the holiday comes to a close, with visions of red carpets dancing in our heads and the assembling of the ubiquitous year-end top ten film lists, I thought it would be a good time to look at some of the best style moments on film:

Best Sixties Homage Part...

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Nancy Meyers: A Voice for the * Generation

9 Comments | Posted December 14, 2009 | 04:36 PM (EST)


Harry is a legendary lothario/sixty-something/music mogul and the guest at a Hamptons dinner party of his twenty-something girl friend Marin, her successful yet skeptical mother Erica and aunt Zoe who teaches women's studies at Columbia University. After being grilled about his media status as an elusive escape artist (as in...

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Support the Magazines

13 Comments | Posted November 10, 2009 | 04:26 PM (EST)


It's a scene that is becoming all too familiar as yet another magazine closes and more space opens up on the newsstands. The formula is simple -- a bad economy means consumers aren't spending therefore no advertising which equates into fewer and fewer editorial pages and less money -- you...

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Is Red the New Beige? A Report from High Point

1 Comments | Posted October 30, 2009 | 02:55 PM (EST)


I recently spent several days at the High Point, North Carolina Furniture Market, the bi-annual sojourn for 80,000 furniture retailers and interior designers viewing the latest in home furnishings. While the industry has been hit extremely hard due to the housing market and the economy, I was pleased to see...

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Rosemary's Baby Revisited

9 Comments | Posted October 28, 2009 | 10:11 AM (EST)


With Halloween week upon us -- and the timely arrest of Roman Polanski and increased interest in the style of all things sixties, I thought this would be a good time to revisit one of the scariest and most stylish films of the horror genre ever made.

Based on Ira...

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Wall Street, Cinema Style

6 Comments | Posted October 19, 2009 | 12:20 PM (EST)


It's often said that life imitates art (and vice versa) and no one know this better than Hollywood. The cinema has long had a love affair with stories of finance, power, and big business, acting as a mirror and social chronicler of the times. With the financial shenanigans of the...

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Autumn in New York, Cinema Style

Posted October 1, 2009 | 11:34 AM (EST)


From penthouse to townhouse and everything in between, New York City remains one of the cinema's most recognizable film sets. The silver screen has chronicled some of the most alluring and memorable interiors over the past century, providing a glamorous, sometimes coveted and often implausible world filled with trendsetting decor...

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