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Friday, April 8, 2011

POP ART AND FASHION - JEAN SHRIMPTON - AVEDON - KATHARINA DENZINGER

Dior

Op-art shifting squares and diagonals

Marc Bohan captures the gaiety and sprit of the Paris Suit

Spoons - Don't You Evah

THIS WOMAN IS YOU

PARIS 1965

JEAN SHRIMPTON

Born in 1942, and internationally famous by the age of eighteen, Shrimpton was an icon of London’s ‘Swinging Sixties’ and one of the fashion world's first supermodels. She was dubbed the ‘It Girl’ and ‘The Face’, landing the covers and major fashion spreads of all of the top international fashion magazines. Her relationship with rising star fashion photographer David Bailey created international fame for both of them in their respective careers with Shrimpton being Bailey’s muse and his photographs of her promoting him to the top echelon of fashion photographers. Their affair lasted four years and will soon be featured in a biopic on Bailey with Karen Gillan playing Shrimpton.

A FALL OF FEATHERS

Dior flutter of ostrich feathers - the softest bonnet

Paris, 1965 - Today is Tomorrow - Monsieur Alexandres of Paris sees Jean Shrimpton as the beautiful woman of the future. This abstract coiffure created for Harper's Bazaar - an oblong of polished hair.

THIS WOMAN IS YOU
In Irene Galitzine's bias-cut backless evening dress with assymetrical halter neckline

Saint Laurent

Dress of Tomorrow

The assertive abstraction, a semiphore flag. Red jersey helmut

Saint Laurent
The Utterly This-Moment Coat

Cardin's angelic long dinner dress

Lanvin's Feathery Fantasy

Saint Laurent

Saint Laurent
The Short Young Dinner Dress

Veniziani

Black and white harlequin glitter - diamond pattern of black beading and silver Lurex on flat white wool.

Forquet

Roman draped and hooded. The dress, a black crepe toga with one long sleeve: the other, a huge balooning of white silk.

Gres

Wing-sleeved dress of aubergine satin

Herrera and Ollero

Cascading headdress

Balmain

Romantic Fur - warm brown sable collar on nutria

Katharina Denzinger Collages

Made from Richard Avedon Photographs

Dior

Silvery lame evening edged from neck to hem in pearls and silvered rhinestones.

Harper's Bazaar

September 1965

Photography: Richard Avedon

Illustration: Katerina Denzinger

Model: Jean Shrimpton

... eyes on the sixties at devodotcom

Thursday, April 7, 2011

MOTHER MOTHER - THE STAND

MOTHER MOTHER - THE STAND (open in new tab)

MOTHER

IF IT'S NOT ONE THING - IT'S YOUR MOTHER

EDWARD STEICHEN

VOGUE

OCTOBER 1940

ALL MOTHERS - ONCE GREAT BEAUTIES

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE -YOU ARE A TOURIST

YOU ARE A TOURIST - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

HIRO

HARPER'S BAZAAR

OCTOBER 1968

Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, professionally known as Hiro, is an American commercial photographer, born in Shanghai in 1930. Known as a “photographer’s photographer,” his very distinctive vision in photography from the mid-sixties onward remains a lasting influence today.

Briefly enrolled in the School of Modern Photography in New York, Hiro apprenticed himself to the studio of established photographers Lester Bookbinder and Reuben Samberg. At the end of 1956, he began working for Richard Avedon and through Avedon, was introduced to Harper's Bazaar’s world reknown art director, Alexey Brodovitch, working as his assistant for a time during Brodovitch's Design Laboratory at the New School.

By the end of 1957, Hiro was no longer Avedon’s assistant, and had launched his own career. Within only a few years, Hiro became a star fashion photographer in his own right. He made significant contributions as a staff photographer to Harper's Bazaar from 1956 to 1975, and was named Photographer of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Photographers in 1969.

Friday, April 1, 2011

BETH DITTO FROM ARKANSAS

PHOENIX - LISZTOMANIA (open in new tab)

BETH DITTO

POP MAGAZINE

AUTUMN 2007

slashed dress by Gareth Pugh

PHOTOGRAPHY

STEVEN KLEIN

BETH DITTO

SIZE HERO

POP MAGAZINE

THE SIRENS ISSUE

AUTUMN 2007

PHOTOGRAPHY

STEVEN KLEIN

beth ditto with blake, wearing wacoal; repetto; giles ;louis vuitton; yves saint laurernt; marc jacobs; hussein chayalan; prada; pistol panties; emilio pucci; julie verhoeven for mulberry

Thursday, March 24, 2011

ELIZABETH TAYLOR - A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER

the shadow of your smile

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

ELIZABETH TAYLOR - THE V.I.P.'S - 1963

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

DAVID STEEN

QUEEN MAGAZINE APRIL 10TH, 1963

RICHARD BURTON WRITES OF ELIZABETH TAYLOR

"She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud."

RICHARD BURTON WRITES OF TAYLOR

WILLIAM KLEIN

VOGUE MARCH 1965

"Those huge violet-blue eyes ( the biggest I've ever seen) had an odd glint in them. You couldn't describe it as a twinkle....Searchlights cannot twinkle, they turn on and off and probe the heavens and so on."

RICHARD BURTON WRITES OF TAYLOR

WILLIAM KLEIN

VOGUE MARCH 1965