ITS ALL IN THE ATTITUDE

Traina-Norell

Kodachrome by Munkacsi

Detachable hoop sleeves with mink cuffs, on a short white pique evening dress.

Black - With One White Glove

Christian Dior-New York

Photograph: Lillian Bassman

The perfect short black dress with the sailor collar hind-side-fore and a deep decolletage in back. Harry Winston diamonds.

Mollie Parnis

Photograph: Genevieve Naylor

A stick of black pique - the straight town dress.

Christian Dior

Kodachrome by Avedon

Dior's heavenly winged cap in potato-white straw with brow band in rust grosgrain.

Jablow

Seen during luncheon at the Pavillon Restaurant, a fitted coat of black ottoman, buttoned almost to the hem - which means you can wear it as a dress as well as over one.

Harvey Berin

Photograph: Lillian Bassman at Le Pavillon

A strapless, plummet-straight sheath of black linen, the deep-pointed decolletage cuffed in black velvet and half veiled to a drifting stole of white eyelet. 

Linen Towel - Leron

Kodachrome - Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Harper's Bazaar April 1950

Beauty Issue

Photography:

Richard Avedon

Lillian Bassman

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Martin Munkacsi

... eyes on the fifties at devodotcom

REMEMBERING BERT STERN 1929 - 2013

Melina Mercouri

Christian Dior-New York

"The Melina Mercouri laugh - a quick intelligent flash of flesh-and-blood amusement; no tricks no bitter undertones."

"In the teeth of Vogue's snowstorm, Melina Mercouri posed to the music of Greek records she brought with her to the studio (sad, but stimulating), tossed back errant flakes at the photographer, saying good-naturedly, '"He wants to kill me, this man."'

The Mercouri Blaze

Vogue December 1962

Photography: Bert Stern

Remembering Bert Stern

Fashion Photographer

1929 - 2013