Tuesday, January 31, 2012

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE - SWEET AND SOUR







LEAN ON ME
WARHOL 1983
Robert Mapplethorpe
"Don't pay any attention to what anyone writes about you ... just measure it in inches"

WILLIAM BURROUGHS 1980
Robert Mapplethorpe

IGGY POP 1980
Robert Mapplethorpe

DEBORAH HARRY 1982
Robert Mapplethorpe

PATTI SMITH, SAN FRANCISCO 1979
Robert Mapplethorpe

PATTI SMITH 1978
Robert Mapplethorpe


MARIANNE FAITHFUL 1976
Robert Mapplethorpe


DESIGNER CAROLINA HERRERA 1979
Robert Mapplethorpe

MAYBELLE 1982
Robert Mapplethorpe

SOMEWHAT TWISTED
GEORGE BUSSEY 1979
Robert Mapplethorpe

ROBERT SHERMAN 1979
Robert Mapplethorpe

CYNDY SHERMAN 1983
Robert Mapplethorpe

ORCHID AND PALMETTO LEAF 1982
Robert Mapplethorpe

ELIOTT AND DOMINIC 1979
Robert Mapplethorpe

ALAN LYNES 1979
Robert Mapplethorpe

EVIA 1979
Robert Mapplethorpe

BABY'S BREATH 1978
Robert Mapplethorpe

DERRICK CROSS 1983
Robert Mapplethorpe

FASHION STUDIES IN BLACK AND WHITE
Robert Mapplethorpe
Styling: Kate Harrington

Carolina Herrera

Calvin Klein

Bill Blass

ANNE KLEIN
Tara Shannon - Thomas Williams
Fashion Studies in Black and White
Robert Mapplethorpe
Styling: Kate Harrington


BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL BOY


Andy Warhol's Interview March 1987
Institute of Contemporary Arts Robert Mapplethorpe 1970-1983
Robert Mapplethorpe Galerie Jurka 1979


Robert Mapplethorpe
1946-1989
Once a Great Beauty


RIVER PHOENIX - PARADISE LOST

PARADISE LOST
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
Photograhy: Marco Franchina

'"When Norman MacLean retired from teaching, he wrote an amazing novella titled A River Runs Through It.  In fact, it is labeled a Phoenix Book and is published by the University of Chicago Press. The book is a blend of sporting manual and fraternal love story.  At one point, the narrator describes his brother and his ability to fly fish.  "He had those extra things besides fine training -  genius, luck and plenty of self-confidence.  I often thought of him as a boy, but I never could treat him that way. He was a master of an art.'"

Kevin Sessums
The Rise of the Phoenix Family
Andy Warhol's Interview March 1987

THE PHONIX FAMILY 1987
TOP CENTER - HEIR APPARENT JOAQUIN (LEAF) PHOENIX

'" I know your wondering if I'll always be a part of this family or someday separate from them.  I've been very lucky that we've been free to be individuals.  When I'm on a movie set, I see a lot of people who don't have anybody in their lives.  Oh, they have superficial friends, but that doesn't count.  So every night they have to go back to their hotel rooms alone.  I never want that.'"

River Phoenix
The Rise of the Phoenix Family
Kevin Sessums interview
March 1987

FROM THE ARCHIVE
For related devodotcom posts on River Phoenix
River Phoenix - Go With The Flow 2/18/11




RIVER JUDE BOTTOM PHOENIX
1970-1993
ONCE A GREAT BEAUTY



Monday, January 30, 2012

DOUBLE HEADER
1969

MEASURE OF A MAN - 1968

California Designer Don Loper
all eyes on me

RICHARD HARRIS
Currently starring on Broadway in Camelot, this poetic Irishman born in Limerick, wears his own design of rich velvet edged in black braid worn over a floral-printed chiffon turtleneck.

GEORGE HARRISON
Flared-cuff floral-print jacket 

BYELE-CHURCH
polyester jumpsuit - low-slung belt
ANDREW MENYES
"Bonnie and Clyde" flavoured polyester suit
Illustrations: Fred-Eric Spione

DIVAS AND DANDIES
THE NEW HOST SUIT - PAUL RESSLER
Braid-trimmed Moire
The woman - Joanna Simon

BILL MILLER
SILK MOCK-TURTLE TUNIC SHIRT
The Woman - Anna Moffo

THE EVENING JUMPSUIT FOR THE CONTEMPORARY HOST
O'BRIEN MORRIS
French-cut velvet in brown, blue, gold and red

PAUL McCARTNEY -  JANE ASHER
Moire lapelled double-breasted tux - satin tie and stickpin
REDMAN ITALY
Long six-button double-breasted jacket
tobacco worsted plaided with gold
Illustration: Harlan Krakovitz

GIG YOUNG
Mike Roth of Kuppenheimer's marine motif, chartreuse-on-beige tussah silk jacket


POLITICAL FASHION STATEMENT
THE NEHRU JACKET
Started by Feruch of Paris, the 'Nehru' is marketed in the west. Popularized by the Beatles and the Monkees, the  jacket features a trim stand-up collar and long lean fitted line borrowed from the Indian sherwani or achkan - a coat-like jacket popularized by India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. 


ANTIQUED BRASS TOE-PLATES
BILL BLASS

Don Lopez Collection
"There haven't been any gentlemen's clothes in the market for years."
A former dancer - Ginger Rogers partner in Lady in the Dark, Don Loper turned to design in 1946 opening a salon in Beverly Hills from where he created screen and personal wardrobes for a galaxy of Hollywood stars. He also had a hand in designing homes, hotel interiors, fabrics, children's clothing  and jewelry. His name has appeared on neckties and cologne and, 1968 saw the  launch of his new 'total collection.'
David Gottlieb for Gino Paoli
slacks - Dunlee

John Hampton walking suit - Leon of Paris
Paul Wattenberg design
California designer Stuart Nelson
Stitch-trimmed Nehru-collared jacket and pants with patch-pocket features

all lives on me ...
Man of the House 1968


Gentlemen's Quarterly February 1968
Photography: Leonard Nones


Saturday, January 28, 2012

WARHOL INTERVIEWS THE FUTURE PAST AND PRESENT




THE NEW SEVEN WONDERS 1989
1
THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
2
THE WALKING GARDENS OF CHERNOBYL
3
THE LEANING TOWERS OF WORLD TRADE
4
THE HOLLAND TUNNEL
5
THE COLOSSUS AT COLUMBUS
6
THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AT THE LOUVRE
7
SILICON VALLEY

THINKING SMALL
Dr. Kim Eric Drexler
Master of molecular nanotechnology
Photography: Mark Trousdale
coined the term "grey goo"

from Love In A Colder Climate
JG BALLARD
The science fiction of "the body's dream of becoming a machine"
"Ballardian" Photograph: Geoff Spear

from Yuppie, We Hardly Knew Yee
CHRISTOPHER WOOD AKA TIMOTHY LEA
Photography: Geoff Spear

Yuppie, an 80's word used to identify Young Upwardly Mobile Professionals, perhaps coined  as a modern alignment  to "Yippie," the term created by Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in the mid-sixties to identify "members" of the Youth International Party (YIP!) - a loosely organized collective dedicated to merging a new left-wing activism and the hippie counterculture during the time of America's involvement in the Vietnam war. That decade's youth-centered ideology was to spark a revolution to end the war in Vietnam, promote peace and love, and reject all -isms; including socialism and anarchism - although, with the movement's advent of free love, unity in dress and thought, extreme rebellion against authority blended with a propensity toward a communal lifestyle and collective political demands -  true followers of the yippie movement shared all, and in doing so, created and adhered to a rather socialistic and oft-times, anachronistic environment. Two decades later, the Yuppie, shared keys to a BMW and tips on their individual portfolios.

THE THREE STOOGES - HAVE ROCKET WILLTRAVEL
Kobal Collection

FUTURAMA
General Motors Pavillion
New York World's Fair

BRAVE NEW CITY
LEBBEUS WOODS
UNDERGROUND BERLIN
LEBBEUS WOODS

from Goodbye to Earth
ISAAC ASIMOV
Painting: Robert Yarber

from Into The Mystic
ANDREW HARVEY
Photography: Wist Thorpe

TOWER OF POWER
Architectural concept of the year 2050
Kisho Kurokawa
This "super" high-rise building, with its height of 6,714 feet, planned near Mt. Fuji, in the district where a high possibility of earthquakes is predicted in the future, is a challenge to high technology. A buttress supports the main tower to support the stability of the building. The "dumper," which is a shock absorber, is placed at the foundation to maintain this stability by means of a computer that controls sway during earthquakes and typhoons. The buttress also contains the elevator and staircases.  On the roof of the building is a port for vertical takeoff and landing, and at its base, a station for the motorcar, which - at 310 miles per hour - allows for a fifteen-minute commute to Tokyo.


THIS IS GOING TO BE YOU
from Letter From The Future
P.J. O'ROUKE
Illustration: David Carrino

JANE FONDA - TIMELESS
ROGER VADIM'S BARBARELLA
Kobal Collection

MATT MAHURIN

THE KING OF CYBERPUNK
WILLIAM GIBSON
Photography: Aaron Rapoport

SCORCHED EARTH, MERCURY POISONING, AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
UNTO DUST
The Devastation of the Amazon Rain Forest
Two Sides of Sympathy
RAY PFORTNER/PETER ARNOLD
MICHAEL NICHOLS  

SYD MEAD'S PARADISE PLANNED
SYD MEAD

KENNY SCHARF

Andy Warhol's Interview
Special Future Issue
January 1989