Friday, August 31, 2012

DON'T SURROUND YOURSELF WITH YOURSELF


I've seen all good people turn their heads each day 
so satisfied I'm on my way ...






yes - I've seen all good people 
Jon Anderson/Chrhis Squire   

Natural Velvet: A Skin In Bloom
Harper's Bazaar April 1954 
Photography: Richard Avedon



don't surround yourself with yourself ... move on back two squares
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HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!


"Dear Bazaar - "
Questions and Answers About Perfume
Harper's Bazaar April 1954
Photography: Ernst Beadle

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

ALKEBULAN


KENYA
Sporting Safari

The zipped turtlenecks, the Zhivago neckline, cross-over fronts, textured knits, virile new shades of pink and rose. Above, the caftan shirt - punjab collared, longer length, wider-sleeved, deeply center-vented in sun-colored, Indian-printed cotton designed by Michael Webb for Carlyle Shirts.


Independent Hunters of Africa

Right: Liam Lynn an Irishman who came to Kenya during the Mau-Mau uprising, wears a bush-inspired all-weather jacket by Zero King. On his left, David Ommanney - born in Jalgaon,India, educated in England, Ommanney has been in Kenya since he was nineteen. Here he wears an off-white cotton bush jacket by Europe Craft.


Nairobi National Park
One-piece layered look cotton knit pullover by Mr. Henry


Stripes Join the Kikuyu

Countess Mara spread-collared silk

The Kikuyu, who inhabit a densely populated area near Nairobi, are the most Westernized of all the Kenyan tribes. They live in thatch-roofed wooden huts, or in simple houses. The Kikuyu are knowledgeable farmers, raising corn and market produce, tending coffee and banana plantations, Their children are taught English and French as well as Swahili.



Perforated suede panels featured on orange wool knit shirt jacket by Duca.


The Kikuyu in Ceremonial Garb

Brazen block-check cotton shirt  by Jantzen


Aquascutum in Africa


Traveling from Mombasa to Malindi, on the manually chain-pulled ferry which crosses Mtnapa Creek. Sweater: cotton-blend plaid front with three-button placket by Enro.


In an ornate Mombasan doorway, a taupe worsted gaberdine coat by Cortefiel



In Masai Territory

Woven Cotton broadcloth zippered turtleneck by Merrill-Sharpe

Kenya!
Gentlemen;s Quarterly April 1968
Photography/Design: Horn/Griner

In 1984, Pratt Institute bestowed its prestigious Alumni Achievement Award upon three people. Two were successful business and engineering executives. The third has sold more soft drinks, automobiles, beer, lipstick, luggage, computers, telephones, gasoline, insurance, airline tickets, motor scooters and sneakers than anyone in the history of television advertising: Steve Horn

In 1957, freelance designer John Berg invited Steve Horn and another graphic designer, Norm Griner, to his engagement party. A friendship was struck and two years later, they formed Horn/Griner, a partnership that lasted fifteen years.

In the beginning, Horn/Griner was strictly a graphic design firm; shooting an occasional photo for a client's ad or record jacket. John Berg, just beginning his long association with Columbia Records, supplied them with most of their design assignments.
It wasn't until 1961 that Steve Horn's rather uneventful design career changed instantly with the click of a Hasselblad. Steve shot a double-page spread for I. Miller ladies shoes. The moment it hit the newsstands in Vogue, Steve Horn began his career as a professional photographer. 


From 1962 to 1964, Steve made several extended trips to Europe on assignment for Elle and various other high-fashion magazines. While there, Horn noticed an increasing number of photographers using a wide-angle twenty-millimeter lens. Realizing its great visual potential in haute-couture photography, Steve became the first still cameraman to bring this trend to the United States. His work subsequently received rave reviews.

Throughout this period, Horn/Griner became the most sought-after tandem in the business.


Art Directors Club

Archive - Hall of Fame
http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1987


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Sunday, August 26, 2012

MAISILAND - WILD AND WONDERFUL


The young herdsman takes the traditional stance he maintains for hours when watching his goats, sheep or cattle.


Yoga's tree pose anyone?


A nomadic people, the Masai build their manyattas - a group of thorn-bush enclosed low huts of brush and cow dung - wherever the land is rich for grazing, then move on to greener fields.  The emerald hills and blue skies of Maisailand - where giraffes, lions and other game are seen, hunted and photographed - provide a splendid background for sport shirts sporting the hot new pink and rose shades.

Oleg Cassini's hot pink knitted wool cable trimmed layer-look. pullover.




The Masai are a proud. dignified warrior people who no longer need fight: they now peacefully tend livestock, control the licensing of their vast hunting lands and largely ignore Westernization.


Mohair and worsted collared cardigan - Edgeworth Mills






Centuries ago, when water was scarce, the custom of drinking blood - mixed with cow's milk - was adopted. The practice is still followed. The animal is not killed: instead, a leather thong is tied around the cow's neck, causing the jugular vein to bulge out. Then, with one Masai holding the animal, another gently shoots an arrow into the vein. When the arrow is pulled out, the blood flows into a gourd held under the vein: dirt placed on the wound stops the bleeding.

One-piece wool shirt by Virany



Massai children, in addition to having their two front lower teeth pulled (in case of lockjaw they still will be able to ingest food,) must also endure having their earlobes slit: wooden blocks are then inserted or heavy decorations hung from the lobes in order to stretch them. 

Crepe-effect knitted cotton vertical striped sport shirt - Sy Devore

To the Masai this is a sign of beauty.


Crossover pullover of flat-knit wool by Leonardo Strassi



In the Loita Hills of the Masai Reserve, velour-like cables on a boucle-knit pullover by Monsieur Bernard.


Kenya
Sporting Safari
Gentlemen's Quarterly April, 1968
Photography and Design Steve Horn - Norm Griner


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Saturday, August 25, 2012

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!


Even in Masailand the choice is the turtleneck.
Dinner Jacket by After Six

Gentlemen's Quarterly April 1968
Photography: Steve Horn/Norman Griner

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

BIG HAIR 1962


Scrolls of delicate openwork, piled high, pouffed wide. Invisible means of support: a hairpiece at back.
Carita of Rome


Miss Helen Fagan - Mr. Antonio Fournier
In her coiffure by Monti, an ermine pony tail, side pinned.


Jean Shrimpton
Hair - Kenneth Battelle


Jean Shrimpton
Hair - Kenneth Battelle


Oleg Cassini
Hair - Kenneth Battelle


Hair - Kenneth Battelle


Norman Norell
Hair - Kenneth Battelle


Wilhelmina Cooper

Hair of the new Paris Persuasion - smooth as coils of glossy satin rope, shaped high and wide. Adding to it all, a hairpiece, topside. By Carita

Hair today - gone tomorrow
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Monday, August 20, 2012

IT'S NOT ALWAYS BLACK AND WHITE


When the game is glamour ...never trust to luck!
Beauty Counselor
CUSTOM-FITTED COSMETICS
Vogue November 1962



VALENTINO BOUTIQUE


LANVIN
BELT - SCHERRER BOUTIQUE


LANVIN






GIANNI VERSACE



KARL LAGERFELD


KARL LAGERFELD


GIVENCHY BOUTIQUE


CLAUDE MONTANA


MONTANA


MONTANA


PORIZKOVA - GIANNI VERSACE


CHER


KRIZIA


GIANFRANCO FERRE


Vogue Paris
February 1988
Special Pret-A-Porter
Photography: 
Patrick Demarchelier
Arthur Elgort
Steven Klein

it's not always black and white
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