Showing posts with label Bill Silano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Silano. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

A FOOT IN COLD WATER



The Ice Shoe by Charles Jourdan







Tiny Jacket - Suspendered Trousers
Cuddlecoat





Endless Summer Dress 
Ginori
Bracelet by Jules Van Rouge





Hussar Pantsuit
Cuddlecoat




Orange Zip-in Knickersuit
Ginori




Muff-Pocket Tunic
Navy Top and Tights
Helmut and Mittens
Halston




Pab




John Moore




Donald Brooks




Miss Branell




Harvey Berin




Gino Charles





Sarmi





Balenciaga




Saint Laurent





Balmain




Givenchy




The Thirst For Adventure
The Taste For Splendour
The Night of the Individualist
Paris: Color Power
Photography: 
Bill Silano
Neal Barr
Hideoki
Hiro Wakabayashi
Harper's Bazaar October 1967


...eye on the sixties at devodotcom


Thursday, July 3, 2014

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!






Beauty: 100 Years Ahead
Harper's Bazaar July 1967
The Way To Send Up Rockets
For The Finest Fourth Ever
Photography: Bill Silano


Sunday, July 7, 2013

SUMMER OF LOVE


surf's up!

red and white checked suit, helmut and boots - "an outfit so buoyant it literally floats by itself" 

Bill Silano photograph



real red knits
antonio lopez




accelerate with real red knits
illustrations: antonio lopez

geometric 
snap ... giant white t's squared twice, front and back by Kimberly


paper
power
the paper dress "new far reaches of fashion for the individualist on the beach,when entertaining,to simply fold up when travelling." At left, the paper wrap, forefront, the asymmetric toga. Designs by Sven Lukin

the paper shoe ...




Shoes designed by Kathryn Stoll for Herbert Levine
Hiro Wakabayashi photographs



the 
electric 
dress ... "electric light - to switch on the electric dress, new super-voltage fashion to dance the night away unrivaled in any darkened place. A shiny leather-like mini, bare shoulder black swung from strips of straps; slashed open at regular intervals to power-patches that light up from within at the dictates of a battery belt. By Diana Dew
Bill Silano photograph


the
july
jewel
"a sterling silver earshield, thin and weightless as an eggshell, bold and dazzling as armour, punctured by the flash of a single, miniscule diamond." By Paco Rabanne

Guy Bourdin photograph



the 
rising 
collar scarlet-ringed and standing at attention on navy full-flaring coat over a red-yoked dress by Seymour Fox. Background, the rising collar with gilded chain and buttons by Barberini



the modernist dress in grey flannel by Geoffrey Beene


the whittled tweed redigote by Bill Blass for Maurice Retner
James Moore Photographs


"What's ahead for the hand, in years to come: the paisley nail - a work of art for the artful gesture by painter Michael Horn."
prescient ...


"Paris' wildest notion: suspended motion. Quicksilver bars gleaming coldly against warm skin - superbly tooled fittings for fluid silks. To hang from the same hardware, a dozen body-molding dresses switched on and off." By Georges Manzon
think of the possibilities


ain't no mountain high enough...
Michael Oster plastic globe rings



100 
years
ahead
"Paris flirtation of a scarlet organza hood touching bare shoulders, buckling with diamonds." By Lanvin
Frank Horvat photograph


Harper's Bazaar July 1967
The Way To Send Up Rockets 
For The Finest Fourth Ever
Photography: Bill Silano
eye on the sixties at devootcom

point the way with paisley nails
cut out in paper shoes
switch to an electric dress
accelerate with real red knits
blast off with star spangled eyes
no problem.
arrive in time for cocktails on the rings of neptune.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

SEMINAL - SIXTIES


the 
reflecting 
eye


Tell me what's new in make-up?
devodotcom 2013 

"you can do fabulous things to help your eyes reveal the inner melody that's the beautiful, present-tense you."
Harper's Bazaar
April 1968
Photography: Guy Bourdin




the 
mirror
is
the
message

Helena Rubinstein "Elec-Tricks" - Pure color on one side, frosty shimmer on the other.

"Beauty is sight and insight - maquillage a living art that reflects a woman within, changing herself at will just as primitive man varies his masque, dramatizing the many selves he wants to project."

Harper's Bazaar
April 1968
Photography: Billy Apple-Bill Silano



Wild Flower Face, Night Flower pearl lustre - John Robert Powers
David Webb Hair ornaments

Photography: Billy Apple-Bill Silano


THE
THINK 
DIET

"Sure way to figure control: put the bathroom scales in front of a full-length mirror. Strip. Is what you see the best you can do?



Flowers shape the body - the rediscovery of the paleolithic double-curve in pettipants by Deanna Littel for Warner's.

Pettipants became a hot item during the latter part of the sixties. The first "pettipant look" was introduced as eyelet or lace trimmed mid-to-full-length cotton bloomers worn under baby doll dresses or gypsy layers as shown on Jean Shrimpton in Vogue March 1969 - see below. The printed pettipants above dealt with ever-rising skirt lengths, insuring some modicum of modesty with style.
devo



Harper's Bazaar
April 1968
Photography: Billy Apple-Bill Silano

... eye on the sixties at devodotcom