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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

DECEMBER 1940

Brigance

pistachio green wool pants

lemon-yellow wrapped top

Martin Munkacsi

Bergdorf Goodman

One-piece sharkskin jumpsuit

Brigance

knee-length, side-wrapped shorts and wrapped top

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Lord & Taylor

Dinner Pajamas in sheer yellow wool

Edmond Frisch jewels

Hoyningen-Huene

Clare Potter

Omar Kiam

Fur-belted silk shantung dinner dress buttoned with big wheels of rhinestones.

Rosario Perez and Antonio Ruiz

The Kids from Seville

"The Nightclub sensation of the season."

Milgrim

Tailored white silk chiffon fastened at the top with tassels. Beads and paillettes encrust the lapels.

Bergdorf Goodman

White crepe printed with sheaves of deep-purple flowers. The skirt, a waterfall of shimmering white fringe.

Decor: Amster and Lamb

Tiered cotton lace from Henri Bendel

Decor by Amster and Lamb

Jay Thorpe

Altman

Jewels - Paul Flato

Kalmour at Saks Fifth Avenue

Spalding-Gorham Jewelry

Decor: Amster and Lamb

Photographs: Hoyningen-Huene

Schlumberger

Jewelry designer,Jean Schlumberger, designs his first dress in heavy white silk faille seamed in gold braid. At the waist, a sash of pale blue satin with black fringes.

This is a white issue...

Harper's Bazaar December 1940

Photography:

Hoyningen-Huene

Martin Munkacsi

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

eyes on the forties at devodotom

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

PAUSE FOR THE THIRTIES ...

Martin Munkacsi

Princess Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge

The former Baba d'Erlanger demonstrates the new-look in nail grooming, natural laquer with blood-red tips.

Vennemann

Loretta Young wrapped in a Henri Bendel cape of snow-white fox

Munkacsi

French film star Annabella wears a bleached skunk jacket by Muriel King.

Munkacsi

Vionnet's black crepe dinner dress with pink satin bowed yoke

Hoyningen-Huene

Danielle Darrieux dressed by Saks Fifth Avenue's Salon Moderne

Meerson

Miss Cobina Wright in Jay Thorpe's smoke-grey marquisette trimmed in shades of deep red to pink moire.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

White silk chiffon with crystal beads from Jane Engel

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

The Duchess of Windsor wears Mainbocher's Prince of Wales Plaid lame

Francois Kollar

Lily Dache's turban of white woven glass thread. Bright red crepe evening dress brocaded in gold by Jonai.

George Platt Lynes

The Turban that Becomes a Scarf by Reboux

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Harper's Bazaar December 1937
Photography:
Martin Munkacsi
Hoyningen-Huene
Francois Kollar
George Platt Lynes
Vennemann
Louise Dahl-Wolfe

... eyes on the thirties at devodotcom

Monday, March 3, 2014

MOLYNEUX TO MAN RAY - THE 40'S

Molyneux

The Famous Bloused top of Molyneux

Molyneaux

Jean Moral

Ingrid Bergman

Hoyningen-Huene

Sarah Bernhardt, Sculptress

In her studio, 1869

Emiliano Milandri

The Duchess of Windsor

Headpiece - Suzanne Talbot

Francois Kollar

Paquin

Balenciaga

Man Ray

Balenciaga

Draped by Lelong

Alix

Schiaparelli

Chinese-Red Crepe Dinner Dress printed with white kangaroos - full over the bust and fitted like a glove

Caroline Reboux

Man Ray

Harper's Bazaar

March 1940

Photography:

Francois Kollar

Jean Moral

Man Ray

Emiliano Milandri

...eyes on the forties at devodotcom

Saturday, February 15, 2014

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND !

Three New Pajamas
Harper's Bazaar December 1940
Photography: Hoyningen-Huene

... eyes on the forties at devodotcom

Friday, February 14, 2014

SHARE THE LOVE - CHARLES JAMES - HOYNINGEN-HUENE

A truly great women's fashion designer must have an abiding love for women. Charles James demonstrated his love of the female form through his masterful cutting and innovative design that afforded a woman ease of wear coupled with a captivating glamour rarely duplicated.

His legacy is that of a designer's designer. More commonly known couturiers - Balenciaga and Dior, among others, applauded Charles James. He is known as the true 'Master of Couture,' and his legendary creations continue to inspire and inform the work of today's designers.

Charles James passed away at the Chelsea Hotel in 1978. He had retired twenty-years earlier but maintained three rooms at the hotel where he continued to live and create, ultimately becoming a part of the Chelsea's long list of memorable residents.