BOB DYLAN 1965

Bob Dylan, the teenager's troubadour came out of the West to wander restlessly through the country, playing and singing his own folk tunes, like '"Blowin' in the Wind."' More of a words man than a musician, he sets his verbal flashes of insight to simple melodies that hush his audience. Now, five years later, his restless wanderings include brief but profitable stops at Columbia's recording studio which is releasing his latest L.P., Bringing It All Back Home.

Harper's Bazaar April 1965

Photography: Richard Avedon

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DYLAN'S ORIGINAL VISIONS OF JOHANNA

Visions Of Johanna

Bob Dylan

Harper's Bazaar
October 1967 - April 1965
Photography: Richard Avedon

BOB DYLAN - YOUTHQUAKER 1965

Bob Dylan, a folk-song writer and singer who, like fluoridation, rouses violent response.  His dark, urgent verse and emotional slash cut him out from the young hootenanny pack. Known best for "Blowin' in the Wind," this twenty-three-year-old, bony young man with a fleece-coloured face and a twang voice, started with songs of acute topicality, has moved on to chronic aches.  "I don't want to write for people any more," he said. "I want to write from inside me." Overlooking success, he ran into it.

Current Then ... Current Now

Breaking news has Johnny Depp launching a new publishing imprint. Set to inaugurate the new endeavour will be the release of The Unraveled Tales of Bob Dylan.

The book aims to explore and unveil Dylan's enigmatic life and  will be based in part on interviews between Dylan and Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University. Historian Brinkley followed Dylan from Paris to Amsterdam in 2009 writing about "the Midwest's most famous son" for Rolling Stone in Bob Dylan's America.

Depp's imprint, Infinitum Nihil,(nothing is forever,)shares the name of his production company and will be a part of HarperCollins Publishers.

Don't Look Back ...

The term "Youthquake" was a fashion, music, arts and cultural movement of the sixties coined by Vogue's then editor in chief, Diana Vreeland. "Youthquakers" were those at the apex of the movement whose influence held sway over an entire generation and, by extension, altered the immediate course of history.

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THE LOOK - FALL 1965

The British Invasion hits the fashion departments in America with the look of Swinging London made popular by the fashion designer Mary Quant now exporting styles from her Kings Road Boutique, Bazaar.  While it was the Space Age designs of Andres Courreges and Pierre Cardin that first launched the mini-skirt and avant-garde styles of the early sixties, Mary Quant is the designer most recognized as having put the mini-skirt on the international map. The Mary Quant Look encompassed hosiery, shoes, clothing and accessories that created the must-have fashion of the mid-sixties. 

The Beatles were the pinnacle of the British Invasion. Following their lead, men's fashion was forever altered internationally and the forward combed shaggy styled Beatle cut was soon the norm for men's hair grooming in America.

The Peter Pan collar was another fashion look favoured by Mary Quant and borrowed from her own fashion sense as a teenager. The child-like embellishment balanced the shorter skirt to offer a gamine quality that was known in London as the "Dolly Bird."

During his World Tour of 1965, Bob Dylan sported a new look. The classic pea jacket - a staple from the 18th century, was reborn. 

While introduced as a fashion statement in the sixties, it wasn't until the seventies that pantsuits on women would become an accepted everyday wardrobe staple.

Another first for women of the sixties was the right to choose pants over dresses or skirts for everyday or evening attire. 

Knee Socks Go To School
N.O.W. Pantsuits
Partying In Pants
Mademoiselle September 1965
Photography: 
David McCabe
George Barkentin

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REAL ROCK STARS

Rainbow Sleeves

RICKIE LEE JONES

PATTI SMITH

JIM CARROLL

KEITH RICHARDS

RICHARDS

CHARLIE WATTS

BILL WYMAN

RON WOOD

MICK JAGGER

JAGGER

SPRINGSTEEN

BOB DYLAN

ANNIE 

LEIBOVITZ

PHOTO

GRAPHS

Random House 1984

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MUST BE THE SEASON OF THE WITCH 1968

Julie Driscoll began her musical career as the president of the Yardbirds fanclub and, under the tutelage of their manager/producer Giorgio Gomelsky, was encouraged to try her hand as a singer. Her first professional performance was with a group he managed called  Steampacket led by Long John Baldry. Her debut was alongside the band's male vocalist Rod Stewart. She also teamed up with future partner Brian Auger - ultimately both leaving the group and forming Julie Discoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity.

Samuel Robert

In 1968, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity had a #5 UK - charted hit with their version of the Rick Danko/Bob Dylan song This Wheel's on Fire.

Feather Explosion - Boas by Gregory

Fans of Jennifer Saunders' wonderful British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous will recognize Driscoll's revamp of the hit which she recorded with Adrian Edmondson as the theme for the BBC series.

Dont Walk Away Renee

Julie Driscoll

The Prettiest Girl On The Beat

Photography: Richard Avedon

Vogue August 1968

HAPER'S BAZAAR APRIL 1965 THE MOST MODERN ISSUE EVER PUBLISHED

SUFJAN STEVENS - CHICAGO

Jean Shrimpton

"Dick Avedon, at the time the most influential photographer on earth, suggested I work as his editorial assistant on the April 1965 issue of Harper's Bazaar. He had been asked to guest edit the magazine, the first time this idea had been put forward. He had agreed, provided there would be absolutely no control or direction from Nancy White - the editor of Bazaar since Diana Vreeland's departure to Vogue."

Nicholas Haslam

Redeeming Features

The Man of the Moment

Paul McCartney

Cosmic, yes, yes, yes, sends the faithful into orbit with the Mersey beat and Mersey sound of the music he writes for fellow-Beatles, John, George and Ringo.

Harper's Bazaar April 1965

The Mercury Blonde

We were given carte blanche to do what we wanted, and Dick said it unquestionably had to be the most modern issue of a fashion magazine ever published.

Nicholas Haslam

Redeeming Features

op and pop fashion

Venet's point d'esprit brides coiffure

Donyale Luna in Galanos

"In a bar in Chicago, Dick discovered the exquisite, long-limbed Donyale Luna, who would become the first instance ever of a black model being used in a "white" magazine. We photographed her wearing the collection of the American couturier James Galanos. The chief cutter at Galanos, herself a black woman, told James - and us - that she would quit if Donyale appeared in the magazine wearing clothes she had made. Furious, Dick had to capitulate, cropping the pictures so that no telling features above Donyale's long slender neck were visible. On publication, hundreds of readers in the South wrote to Nancy White cancelling their subscriptions."

Nicholas Haslam

Redeeming Features

Norell of New York

"Faced with the first black model, a James Galanos studio employee, herself a black woman, announced that she would leave if Donyale Luna appeared in the magazine wearing Galanos's clothes. As the story was later told, advertisers with southern accounts pulled there ads from the issue; still later, subscribers were said to have canceled their subscriptions, while William Randolph Hearst, Jr., whose family company owned Harper's Bazaar, relayed his displeasure to the editors."

David Michaelis

Vanity Fair December 2009

There appears to be a case of time altering facts upon the recollections above. The issue demonstrates that it is the American couturier Norman Norell's designs that have the infamous cropped heads and the 'Luna in Galanos' display Donyale Luna in full beautiful stature.

Luna in Galanos

Luna in Galanos
Harper's Bazaar April 1965

Night Birds

China Machado in Galitzine

"The exquisite Eurasian model China Machado, "a capuchin monkey in the lap of Genghis Kahn," as Diana Vreeland described her."

Nicholas Haslam

Redeeming Features

Frug That Fat Away

The Death of the Diet

Verushka and Donyale Luna in Rudi Gernreich

Jasper Johns

I persuaded the leading pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, George Segal, and Claes Oldenburg to make huge backdrops and sets for Marella Agnelli, Naty Abascal, and Dolores Furstenberg, the great beauties of the day, to be photographed against, wearing "Space age" clothes by the young Pierre Cardin and Paco Rabanne.

Nicholas Haslam

Redeeming Features

Signora Gianni Agnelli

Agostini Sculpture

Marella Agnelli-The way it's going to be. Ineffable elegance, an aristocracy of being that transcends the illusory in fashion, simply, unselfconsciously exists. In wildly flowered tights, shining vinyl jacket and boots, Signora Agnelli leans on an Agostini sculpture, establishing, by example, the direction of fashion to come.

George Segal

"Women Washing Her Feet"

"The sittings with Shrimpton began on January 2,1965. That morning, in a Trenton, New Jersey, chicken coop, Avedon had shot Pop artist George Segal's white plaster sculpture Woman Washing Her Feet, knowing at this point only that the practitioners of this movement - Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Stan VanDerBeck, physicist George Oster - might be the issue's '"most interesting contributors,"' alongside commentary by Renata Adler and Tom Wolfe, poems by Lane Dunlop and Ree Dragonette, excerpts from novel s in progress by Alfred Duhrssen and Marvin Cohen, and his own portraits of a laughing Jasper Johns, a clean-cut Rauschenberg. Ruth Ansel, puzzling over the place for shoes to appear - the shoe page was a Bazaar institution - had sent off for a pair of heeled chrome-yellow sandals, which she tossed under the white porcelain face bowl: a touch of Andy Warhol color in Segal's foreboding scene."  

David Michaelis

Vanity Fair December 2009

"I arrived early, along with Dick Avedon and China Machado, an editor of the magazine. A few other people were there also, including Tony Jones. The equipment got set up, Dick did the fashion shots, and then Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr arrived. Everything went smoothly and the guys were fun to work with.

After the photo session was over, only Ringo Starr, Avedon, China and myself remained in the studio. Then Ringo decided to challenge Avedon to a drinking contest.

Now, Dick was not much of a drinker, but he was game, and so they started downing vast amounts of whisky. This could only end in disaster. Or two passed out bodies, which it did. I took a few pictures of the results, which resurfaced recently and which I played with in PopArt Plus to give it a real Sixties feel. Yes, I know — this style is way past its use-by date.

A short time later, as I was packing up, both Ringo and Avedon were laying on the floor — one in the 

bathroom and the other in the kitchen — oblivious to the world. What to do? To make matters worse, a group of Beatles fans were at the street entrance, waiting for Ringo. China made some calls, and arranged to have a private car go to the service entrance on Gough Street, out of sight of the fans. To get Ringo there, I had to carry him across the rooftop, and take him down the goods lift (freight elevator), depositing him in the waiting car."

From Earl Steinbicker's Life's Little Adventures - The Avedon Years, Part XII

Bob Dylan

The teenagers' troubadour came out of the West to wander restlessly through the country, playing and singing his own folk tunes, like "Blowin' in the wind." More of a words man than a musician, he sets his verbal flashes of insight to simple melodies that hush his audience. Now, five years later, his restless wanderings include brief but profitable stops at Columbia's recording studio which is releasing his latest L.P., Bringing It All Back Home.

 The Contemporary Art of Temporary Life

Dali's Discovery Adil

The awakening young faun is also the model for his latest painting, Hermes, which combines pop and op art techniques with a new three-dimensional process, on view this month at the Spanish Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. One name is an anagram of the other; so in a surrealist sense, Adil is Dali....The cool sea nymph appears in an imported maillot of rib-knitted cotton, unlined and white as whitest foam, By Lydia of Roma.

to be continued...