Monday, April 29, 2013

THE MAGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF DIANE ARBUS

Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park. New York, 1962

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."
Diane Arbus


Masked woman in a wheelchair. Pennsylvania, 1970


Diane Arbus
DANGER:LIFE
Vogue November 1972

Tokyo Rose
Diane Arbus at devodotcom



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Friday, April 26, 2013

THE BRIDE & FRIENDS 1958


Breathtaking Bride
Tucked white organdie by Will Steinman


The Silhouette Keeps a Secret
"If this is the year you're going to have a baby - consider yourself twice blessed."
Black Silk Chiffon by Ma Mere



Spring Wedding Portrait
Silk organdie and fake-pearl-strewn lace by Priscilla of Boston


Attending the Bride in Aproned Cotton with a Misty Overlay of  White Organdie by Mr. Mort



Sheath of Aquamarine Blue cotton lace full-skirted with silk organdie by David Morris 


The Silhouette Keeps a Secret

Directoire Waisting, a bow set under a bosom of pale yellow 
by Page Boy


With This Ring ...

Silk Organdie appliqued in Chantilly Lace and mock pearls and paillettes by Bianchi


Wedding March
The Magic Slipper ...
White net sewn with pearl sequins and bright crystal nosegays by Roger Vivier



Spring Wedding Portraits
Silhouette Keeps a Secret
Harper's Bazaar April 1958
Photography: Lillian Bassman
Available on Request

... eye on the fifties at devodotcom

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

TWIGGY


Halston Evening Turban


Born Lesley Horny, to a carpenter and a Woolworth’s counter girl, the world’s first supermodel began modeling at the age of fifteen in and around London during the ‘Swinging Sixties.’ 






Chester Weinberg


Victor Joris for Cuddlecoat


A budding teenager, Leslie Hornby’s skinny gamine figure garnered her the nickname “Twigs” and, innocently enough, her whippet-thin look quickly took hold as the iconic “London look” forever associated with the emergence of London’s British fashion invasion of North America.



Sarff-Sumpano
Jumpsuit-boots custom Ashley & Abel & Golo


Kimberly


Stanley Herman for Mr. Mort



Anne Fogarty

Accompanied by her boyfriend-hairdresser-manager Justin de Villeneuve, the duo set forth on a meteoric rise to fame that saw “Twiggy,” as she was to become known, grace the covers of fashion and teen magazines across the continent and overseas.



Gunther Jaeckel



Her boyish figure and Sassoon ‘boy-do’ - combined with huge doe-eyes framed by painted lashes that became known as ‘twiggies’, was the look that all young women on these shores aspired to.



Harold Levine


Geoffrey Beene


Anne Fogarty


Harold Levine


Moe Nathan


Mary Quant ruled British Fashion at the heart of Swinging London – a catch-all term for the fashion and cultural scene of the mid-sixties, and her   minis, lacy pantyhose, ribbed knits and androgynous pantsuits made magic when presented on Twiggy’s perfect androgynous form.



Roberto Rojas


She was incredibly thin – in a healthy way, amazingly young, wonderfully fresh-faced, with a great sense of humor and a cockney accent that added to an enigmatic character that North American girls on both shores could only wish to emulate.


She was perfect for the times ...



The Daring Young Romantics
Taking The World By Charm
Twiggy
Vogue August 1967
Photography: Richard Avedon

... eye on the sixties at devodotcom