DECEMBER 1962

The Mercouri Blaze

Melina Mercouri

Bert Stern Photograph

Marc Bohan for Dior

Honey and Apricot satin dress embroidered with stones and sequins.

Christian Dior-New York

Silk matelasse bound at the bust, flared at the hem

Bob Bugnand

Silver net pullover sewn with crystal drops and dropped over a bare-shouldered white satin dress hemmed with mink.

Maurice Retner

Chantilly lace embroidered with gold beads and sequins zippered into a hood. 

Emillio Pucci

Silk jersey twisted up over one shoulder

Balenciaga

Matelasse with a plunged, wrapped back and high neckline in front.

Mercouri in Maximillian

The Mercouri Blaze

Photography: Bert Stern

The Principessa Hercolani in Pucci

Pucci

Countessa Elizabeth di Robilant in Pucci's embroidered middy worn with a slender Balinese wrapping of white satin.

Marchesa Christina Pucci

Pucci brown embroidered middy over primrose yellow satin pants.

Roman Rave: 

Palazzo Pyjamas

Photography: William Klein

Jean Shrimpton in Tiffeau and Busch

Bowler by Halston

Frechtel

Hat by Emme

Shrimpton in Monte-Sano and Pruzan

Mr. John Hat

The Suits That Can't Wait For Spring

Photography: Louis Faurer

Geist and Geist

Stretch denim pants below a knit mini top

Emilio Pucci

White silk shantung palazzo pyjamas slashed by a brown midriff.

The Midriff

Photography: Irving Penn

B.H. Wragge

B.H. Wragge

B.H. Wragge

Brigance for Sinclair

Piebalds and Skewbalds

For The South

Photography: Art Kane

Schlumberger of Tiffany;s

Van Cleef and Arpels

Elsa Martinelli

Sable Hat by Halston

Julie Newmar in Lucie Ann Lingerie

Julie Newmar in Edouard

The Small Joys of Christmas

Vogue December 1962

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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

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HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!

The Seventh Sense of Wonderful
Harper's Bazaar December 1962
Jewel: Jean Schlumberger for Tiffany's
Photography: Hiro Wakabayashi

GUNG HAY FAT CHOY!

First of the Big-Time Splendors

Lapis bead necklace with sapphire, gold and diamond pendant, Jean Schlumberger of Tiffany ... Serpentine jade cuffs with ruby and diamond dots by David Webb ... Bulgari's saphire-breasted Bird of Paradise with emeralds, rubies and diamonds ...coral and yellow enamel vanity inlaid with jewels by Cartier ... Audemars Piguet pocket watch in gold and jade ... David Webb carved emerald and carved coral necklace ... Black enamel, diamonds and jade drop earring by David Webb.

Jade with nestling diamonds in a pin by David Webb ... Amethyst beads linked with diamonds, topaz and jade by Van Cleef and Arpels ... enameled vanity with diamond-and-onyx chain from Cartier's 1925 collection ... strands of sapphires clasped with a huge carved emerald and diamonds by Van Cleef and Arpels ... a Piaget pocket watch of black onyx ringed with diamonds ... Rings from Harry Winston, a rare, true emerald-green emerald. a ruby surrounded by 54 diamonds ... carved jade beads in a necklace of rubies, sapphires and pearls by Bulgari ... An emerald ring as big as the Ritz by Van Cleef and Arpels.

First of the Big-Time Splendors
Vogue November 1974
Photography: Chris von Wangenheim

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MAKE A WISH

The biggest diamond on the market,(1957) photographed life-size--130 carats, blinding, blue-white and flawless, mounted on a slim choker. It's insured for a million dollars, Trabert and Hoeffer

also showing

Frank Hartley;John Rubel; Cartier; Verdura;

Van Cleef & Arpels; Black Starr and Gorham; Edmund Frisch; Harry Winston; J.R. Wood; Jean Schlumberger




Harper's Bazaar December 1957
Photography: Ernst Beadle