PEACE

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

SKI

Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago
Harper's Bazaar December 1941
Photography: Toni Frisell

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM OUR HOUSE TO YOUR HOUSE!

If a day came when the Circus vanished from the roads of England, it would mean that the theatre was dead, the cinema was dead, broadcasting and the concert were dead, or like to die, because civilization would finally have killed humanity. - Charles B. Cochran

Art and the Circus
Geoffrey Wagner
Harper's Bazaar April 1963
Photography: Diane Arbus

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DARLING ... YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE!

Ben Kahn 

Cartier

After Dark

Harper's Bazaar March 1956

Photography: Lillian Bassman

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS ...

...please tell Santa!

...vintage winston would work too

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Mainbocher's Eyecatcher Hemline:

"The dress is pale pink tafffeta, scissored and tucked to fall against the lines of the body in one smooth and incredibly simple descent ... simple as a chess game, that is, this being Mainbocher. Then at the hem, massed arabesques of silver-gilt embroidery break loose, directing the eye to crescendos of terminal brilliance."

Diamond earrings by Harry Winston

Merry Christmas To All ... And To All A Good Night

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Christmas 2013

AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN

IN PRAISE OF JESUS ... AND MARTIN SHARP

YOU HAD TO BE THERE ...

Martin Sharp was one of a handful of iconic gentlemen who shaped the look of the sixties through his vision and talent to demonstrate that vision on the pages of magazines and record covers of the times. Irreverent and controversial, he left behind a rich history of artwork and editorials that represented the pulse of a generation that endeavoured to make a difference through pushing the boundaries of acceptable behaviour and pointing out the hypocrisy of the generation in charge of their future.

Martin Sharp, artist, editor,underground cartoonist,songwriter and film-maker,  passed away Sunday, December 1, 2013. He said about art, " I think art is about tidying up, really. To tidy up, you've got to make a mess."


Oz Magazine 
The Pornography of Violence Issue
March 1968
Cover Illustration: Martin Sharp
1969 Pulitzer Prize Cover Photograph: Eddie Adams

THE VIRGIN AND CHILD

Henri Matisse

"And when My Mother, pretty as a church,

Takes me upon her lap, I laugh with love,

Loving to live in her flesh, which is My house - and full of

light!"

From:

The Holy Child's Song

Thomas Merton

The Virgin and Child

Detail form a study by Matisse,1948-49

for the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, France

Vogue December 1970

GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND MYRHH

Bless the beasts and the children

For in this world they have no voice

They have no choice

Bless the beasts and the children

For the world can never be

The world they see

Light their way

When the darkness surrounds them

Give them love

Let it shine around them

Burt Bacharach

IN PRAISE OF NIGELLA LAWSON - ANDY WARHOL

Merry Christmas  - With Love

" Almost all servants have more taste and keen observation of value than many people credit them with.  Many a cook who gets a large, flashy and not-very-good "set" of something, secretly prefers your small bottle of Chanel "No. 5."

Merry Christmas - With Love

Harper's Bazaar December 1957

Illustration: Andy Warhol

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OH CHRISTMAS TREE!

Mainbocher's Subtracted Perfection

50'S super model Sunny Harnett in Mainbocher - heathered gray and white tweed. The jacket, a heathery cashmere sweater set in tweed and bound off short at the waist - an unmistakable Mainbocher mannerism. The dress that wears the jacket is a cashmere sweater and skirt fused into one piece, perfectly shaped to the figure moving out in a light flow at the hem.

Tweed the color of a pink rose. The Jacket mounted with a faceted black broadtail collar, a fold-in broadtail scarf, the line of the jacket arrested at the point where the waistline inches in.

The Mainbocher Hemline

The dress - in the crystal gray of wool mixed with silk, cut with the greatest appearance of ease, to identify itself beautifully with the lines of the body. Everywhere quiet circumspection, scissored to curve, cling and flow in movement - until the eye strikes a fine-scale massing of embroidered vines climbing upward from the hem. Harry Winston diamond earrings.

Mainbocher's Subtracted Perfection

The Mainbocher Hemline

Harper's Bazaar December 1953

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CHRISTMAS KICKS!

The Eye 

     Travels 

            Down

With hemlines in focus, the eye just naturally moves on to some important new implications. Like stockings - paled to 20/20 invisibility. By Berkshire. Shoes: the lady on the ladder wears rhinestoned blue satin, tapered at the toe and heel. By Delman.

To - the new fine point of what you wear in the evening. For black, its finest shadow, graduating into the shining black of satin pumps. The stockings so transparently visible  are Hane's new black evening shadow, without so much as the outline of a heel to give them away. The Shoes: an extravagantly beautiful high-arched shape with a cavalier buckle sketched out in rhinestones, a tall fine arching curve of heel. By Delman

The Eye Travels Down

Harper's Bazaar December 1953

Photography: Richard Avedon

... eye on the fifties at devodotcom

'TIS THE SEASON

Children's Procession

On the steps of the Madeleine in Paris, a fete-day celebration 

Children's Procession: La Madeleine, Paris

Harper's Bazaar December 1953

Photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson

GO SOUTH YOUNG WOMAN

THE SUN: FOR AND AGAINST BEAUTY

"The sun is a philanthropist, and the sun is a common thief.  It is up to you, whether you accept the bounty - or get robbed.  What the sun has to give could amount to a course of beauty treatments. What the sun could take away is the youthful appearance of even a naturally fine complexion."

Still ... another Moscow Mule wouldn't hurt

Vogue July 1950

Photography: Irving Penn

Photography: Erwin Blumenfeld

'TIS THE SEASON

The Woman Who Lost Her Head

"This woman is the national nightmare. At the first scent of victory she walks out on her war job, walks into the shops.  She buys by the dozen, yawns at inflation, thinks she's pretty coony to stock up while the going is good.

Multiplied by the thousands, she is draining the shops, cornering merchandise needed by others, shooting up prices, paving the way for postwar breadlines. She is the disgrace, the despair of America - this hit and run shopper, this selfish, complacent little woman who has lost her head."

The Woman Who Lost Her Head

Photogrphy: Herbert Matter

Harper's Bazaar September 1943

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!

PAUL McCARTNEY

Man Of The Moment

Harper's Bazaar April 1965

Photography: Richard Avedon

CAPUCCI - COMING DOWN TO EARTH

CAPUCCI

White coming down to earth... white cotton matelasse embellished with jewelled buttons like bright covered paving stones that echo the fabrics weave. Slightly shaped and softly skimming into a minimal a-line. In Hurel cotton.

Melvin Sokolsky experienced a recurring dream in which he floated  within a bubble across exotic landscapes. This was the origin of his "bubble series" presenting the Paris spring collections of 1963.

Photographed by Melvin Sokolsky

Model: Simone D'Aillencourt

Harper's Bazaar March 1963

KATIE FORD - LACEY FORD - ELISA ROSELLI - AMANDA BROWN - TAKE A BOW

Elisa Roselli

Smocking bodice on a lawn dress dusted with green and pink posies, bound with course white lace. By Sunny Lee in Dumari cotton. Bonnie Doon socks, Capezio shoes.

Elisa Roselli at left wears ruffles and rickrack with flouncing at the hem of ivory and blue cotton.

Amanda Brown models the lifted waist rising on a cool little cotton dress wallpaper-printed with enormous delicacy in bright red, blue and gold by Moppets.

Lacey Ford

Putting frills on a fragilely flower-patterned red on white dress - double-ruffle sleeves that complement the full skirt. Full set of brass buttons in back. Very girly-girly in ABC cotton by Helen Lee.

Katie Ford

A toile-printed afternoon dress in pale blue on ivory, as delicate as Delft china, sashed at the waist with a sky blue velvet ribbon. By Kate Greenaway in Springmaid cotton.

Young Wallpaper Prints

Photography: Francesco Scavullo

Harper's Bazaar March 1963

...eye on children's fashions at devodotcom

VENET - TRAVELER'S CHECKS

S

VENET

Traveler's Checks

Black and white double-breasted suit with the new narrower, longer jacket - collarless, with a white wool crepe hood tucked in and casually covered with a black silk raincoat. Dumas Maury fabric.

"The morning we shot on the Seine,the bubble was lowered overzealously into the water, flooding it up to Simone's ankles, and in turn ruining an important pair of designer shoes." 

Melvin Sokolsky

Photographed by Melvin Sokolsky

Model: Simone D'Aillencourt

Harper's Bazaar March 1963

EVENINGS IN PARIS 1963

GRES

Pristine perfection evening cape falling like a handkerchief in front, crosses at the back and wraps around a long linear column dress that is slit on one side. In Staron crepe. Chignon shaoed like a bow by Alexandre of Paris.

SIMONETTA AND FABIANI

Shining black organza satin, high on front, plunging into a deep U in the back. the slightly lifted waist is looped with a sash of scarlet satin. In Lesage silk. The headdress, inspired by the eighteenth-century Peking dynasty is by Alexandre of Paris.

SAINT-LAURENT

Fragile white organdie transparent evening covering over a two-part organdie dress densely worked with bas-relief white broderie. In Brivet Organdie. 

The Alexandre of Paris hair creation here, and throughout this editorial, was an integral part of the couture fashion of the sixties. His work was the finishing touch to the formal evening ensemble - and as fashionable as the fashions themselves.

SAINT-LAURENT

Counterpoint sleeve. Elegant jumper dress with the new wide shoulder casually scarved and just skimming the body. The fuller-sleeved shirt underneath is deeply cuffed. 

CARDIN

The ruffle - two rows in  in pitch black organza fanning high front and back on a whisper of mousseline. Light and utterly feminine, eased into the natural waist by a soft tie sash. In Chatillon-Mouly-Roussel silk.

CARDIN

A waist-deep cowl of white crepe drops to new depths of provocation and balances a black rose on a thread. The skirt, black and clinging. In Lajoinie crepe. Coiffure; Alexandre of Paris.

DIOR

The Breton, young yet worldly. The brim of white straw so sheer the light shines through. The crown shaped like a baby's cap and the chin strap of pitch black shantung. The dress - important to the silhouette at Dior: the sculptured shoulders.

Paris Says:

Harper's Bazaar March 1963

Photography: Melvin Sokolsky

... eye on the sixties at devodotcom