IN VOGUE: LEONARD COHEN 1969

Leonard Cohen, over thirty, is a mind-opener for the young. Elusive, driven, with a powerfully soft voice and a trapper's walk, he has written songs, poems, and two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers - all with the cadence of '"invisible songs."' 

A Canadian, Cohen lives in transit over earth, brown eyes wary, nostrils on guard, uniformed in this withered leather jacket in the right pocket of which he still fumbles for the Moroccan squirrel that once lived there."...

People Are Talking About...
Leonard Cohen
Vogue August , 1969
Photography: Irving Penn

THE ART OF CHANGING YOUR PART

INTRODUCING: A FACE

“See on the following pages, the changes in this face. Here, it’s a face practically in its natural state. It wears only the standard equipment of American Women: just lipstick and a faint brush of face powder. The hair is merely combed through - not set. We can therefore say,’” this is what she really looks like.”’

“Now - want to see who she can become? Turn the pages and find out what a little time and a lot of make-up can do…"

Verdura pencils and bracelets

Red saddle leather purse by Enger-Kress

THE SAME FACE: "here re-Vamped. The frank and freckled complexion is masqued and paled by a cake foundation and clear-toned powder. Lipstick makes a big change-of-costume for the face: paints on a completely different mouth. The mysterious eyes - no mystery: just black shadow, eyebrow pencil, and a thick fringe of made-to-order eyelashes."

Earrings: Jet and glitter on gossamer wires, gloves by Superb

THE SAME FACE: "wears a light tan in the country; a sun-colour she can put on and take off as easily as her sweater - for this complexion comes out of a bottle of liquid foundation. On the mouth: orange-red lipstick, boldly used. For the eyes: a shadow of green. And she's switched hair colour - just for the day - by brushing in a gilt metal powder.

Her gold glasses at Lugene. Pigskin and fabric gloves by Superb, gilded metal bracelet by Castlecliff

THE SAME FACE: "now a perfectly frank, perfectly delicious phony. Nothing real here at all - neither the lashes, (easily applied in a strip), nor the glitter on the mouth (caused by brushed-on red sequins). It's a fantasy for -well, a big ball? -a charity fashion show? -or just to prove something to yourself?

Rhinestone-paved minaudiere by Evans, earrings by Lido, rhinestone bracelets, Henri Bendel

VOGUE'S EYE VIEW OF 

CHANGING YOUR PART

"There's probably something Deeply Significant in whether those word, to you, mean changing your hair-division or changing your role. But we know that if you change the one - the other, quite likely, may happen.

After all, your '"Other"faces are you too, and there is a special refreshment in suddenly coming upon a new and shining version of yourself." Photograph: Clifford Coffin

Vogue 

October 1952

Photography: Erwin Blumenfeld

POWERGLIDE 1962

The Line on Land and Sea

Hawksbill Beach
Beach chair, suntan lotion, alarm clock for tanning, Geist and Geist cotton shirt over short shorts; Lilly Dache sombrero; Terrycloth robe and beach bag by Porthault

High-key pastel on the high-seas... hooded parka by White Stag
On The Harbinger, Antigua

White in Mohair and simulated patent leather

Cover up: Chic and Casual 

Bold and Brilliant on the Beach of the Anchorage Inn
B.H.Wragge nylon jersey







Harper's Bazaar
May 1962
Photography: Avedon
Model: Suzy Parker

A decade before Twiggy and The Shrimp disrupted fashion’s runways and the pages of high-fashion magazines, Suzy Parker reigned supreme. The forties and early fifties belonged to Suzy’s sister, Dorian Leigh, Mary Jane Russel, Jean Patchett, and a hand full of other top models, the mid-fifties to mid-sixties were all about Suzy.

Raised in Highland Park, New Jersey, Suzy Parker started as a model in her early teens with the encouragement of her sister, Supermodel, Dorian Leigh. Both beauties were dominant forces in the fashion scene, but soon Suzy would break out and be hailed as the epitome of Fifties Glamour. 

Though initially reluctant to use her, she became a muse of Avedon, often a feature of his Paris Openings fashion portfolios in the September Issues of Harper's Bazaar. In Leigh's bio, The Girl Who Had Everything, The Story of the Fire and Ice Girl, he is quoted as saying "I don't know if I can work with someone so beautiful. There may not be enough that I can do to create something of my own." Ultimately they both did. They left behind a plethora of stellar fashion images both intimate and easily accessible.

Gorgeous, with natural beauty and demeanour, she soon successfully transitioned to Model/Actor, blending a career in both disciplines with the support of an adoring audience.

The Wow Factor

Suzy Parker

1932  - 2003

LA LIZ

 

Mrs. Richard Burton

"whose magic radiates as her legend matures, is surely - among all women - the bird of paradise, resplendent and bewithcing; wearing an evening headdress that might have been captured in an enchanted aviary: glossy black coq feathers curve sensuously about her head and throat, framing her fabled face."

Harper's Bazaar October, 1964

Photograghy: Avedon

Design: Anello of Emme

SUN SPLASH 1955

Harper's Bazaar December,1955

South For The Holidays

"The swimmer's suit in this winter's brightest sun color - clear saffron yellow, marked with an arrowy white stripe. in acetate and Lastex by Cole of California."

Photography: Gleb Derujinsky