Tuesday, July 19, 2011

THE 60S - THE BEAUTIFUL BEACHNIQUES


the sandpiper splash







Hop,Skip and Jump - pete rock



the sandpiper splash
lyn stuart bouncy dots
James Moore

The Free-style elegance and barefoot abandon of the California beachniques, inspired by Big Sur country denizens, whose sometimes hermitlike, always exciting existence is spent in the pursuit of the poetic, the artistic, and the romantic in a wild landscape of sun, sea, wind and sand. Attention created by the new MGM Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor film, The Sandpiper.


the sandpiper splash
black suns 
Lyn Stuart - Bernardo




HIRO WAKABAYASHI




The Beautiful Beachnique

The Beautiful Beachnique, looking out on the sun-stained world of June, stretching in a golden streamer (rather like a wonderful, never-ending beach) before her – promising luxuriously long days filled with a cat-in-the-sunlight leisure.

How spare are your ribs?


The Chadou
Chez Cazar
James Moore



once over lightly
riviera glasses
Hiro Wakabayashi


Hawaii Romance
Sarff-Zumpano
Hiro Wakabayashi


date pretty chinese girl
Junior Sophisticates
Hiro Wakabayashi


Hawaii Dazzle
Tiffeau and Busch
Hiro Wakabayashi


Hawaii Moon and Sun
Constance Montague
Hiro Wakabayashi



The Beachniques
BH Wragge
Melvin Sokolsky


Bringing-up-baby dress
Rudi Gernreich
Melvin Sokolsky



Bright light on the Beach
Cabana - Bernardo 
make-up by Pablo
Melvin Sokolsky




Two sides of the summer coiffure coin determines not simply by a toss of curls or otherwise but by the contours of your own face. The soft, gentle, yet bouffant curve at left, by Enny of Italy. The geometric, straight-on severity, at right, by Vidal Sassoon for Charles of the Ritz.
Arpad necklaces
Melvin Sokolsky photograph




Fashion Whistles
all clear
BH Wragge
Richard Avedon




The invisible pullover
all clear
Donyale Luna in Edie Gladstone
Richard Avedon



Paris Night Shapes

The provocative Chanel
Tom Kublin


Night Shapes
St. Laurent


Night Shapes
St. Laurent


Night Shapes
Givenchy


Night Shapes
Balenciaga


Night Shapes
Balenciaga


Givenchy
Master Beauty Maker
Jeanloup Sieff


Paris Night Shapes
The evocative Balenciaga
Tom Kublin


Everything Old Is New Again

six exceptional women who gave to the Paris of the twenties an uncommon radiance and bravura, photographed and remembered by Andre Kertesz




Comtesse de Noailles “She lived in her bed, the curtains of the room drawn, a little lamp somewhere lighted. A poet of fantastic reputation, she had a quality of the removed, of the super-real, perhaps.”




Mme. Maurice Maeterlinck “She was a figure of the purest poetry, all delicacy, openness. The Barzoi was Melisande, named after Pelleas et Melisande; a porcelain blackbird commemorated L’Oiseau bleu.”



Colette “A magnificent writer, yes. But she was a magnificent person,and unexcelled companion – natural, direct, exquisitely aware. To thank me for a favor she wrote: ‘Merci, home de forme parole! Je vous serre bien cordialment la main.’”



Marie Laurencin “She gave the impression she was one of her own paintings – the air, the tone, was a Marie Laurencin. She wanted to pose with something – her Chow, her porcelain cat. I wanted to do her, herself.”



Lady Mendl “The leading hostess of Paris – spiritual, gay. A great lady with a streak of the child. She had a passion for calisthenics, and could stand on her head. Her apartment looked magnificently on the Seine.”


Magda Zahler “What capacity for caprice? She was Hungarian, a doctor’s wife, and had studied classical dance. But when she came to Paris in 1925, she was a satiric dancer – her exuberant caricatures took us by storm.”


Harper's Bazaar
June 1962












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