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