Showing posts with label Guy Bourdin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guy Bourdin. Show all posts

Thursday, October 16, 2014

THE WAY WE WORE - THE EIGHTIES



Ralph Lauren





Fernando Sanchez





Perry Ellis





Norma Kamali 





Norma Kamali OMO






Halston





Anne Klein for Michael Forrest Furs





Calvin Klein





James Galanos




Diane von Furstenberg





N.Y.C.
Le Soir a New York
Andre Leon Talley
Paris Vogue 1983
Photography: Guy Bourdin

... eyes on the eighties at devodotcom


Friday, April 11, 2014

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!



Beaute
Teint de Nacre et Corps D'Ivoire
Yves Saint Laurent Beaute
Photography: Guy Bourdin

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.

Monday, April 22, 2013

SEMINAL - SIXTIES - SCARF SHOE


Enclosing all the body in yards of silk chiffon, THE SCARF SHOE - flying upwards from a jewelled heel. Each scarf shoe, a free-flowing stocking - based on a solid sole - that covers the leg, leaving long streamers of twine around the body. In hand painted silk chiffon by Herbert Levine

Guy Bourdin

McLuhan Looks At Fashion
Harper's Bazaar April 1968
Photography: Guy Bourdin

... eye on the sixties at devodotcom

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

Saturday, November 12, 2011

BOURDIN BLING

GUY BOURDIN
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
SEIBU DE TOKYO



VOGUE PARIS JANUARY 1974
PHOTOGRAPHY: GUY BOURDIN

Thursday, August 18, 2011

1970 TRES SPECIAL - TRES GUY BOURDIN


Cartier
Serge Lutens
Guy Bourdin  

Van Cleef and Arpels
Guy Bourdin

De Givenchy
Guy Bourdin

Krug and the men of Maxim's
Guy Bourdin

French Perfumes
Guy Bourdin

Guy Bourdin

Guy Bourdin

Boucheron
Guy Bourdin

George V - Hermes
Guy Bourdin

Tea in Porcelain
Guy Bourdin

Porthault, Limoges, Baccarat, Bollinger, Christian Dior
Guy Bourdin

Couple of the Year
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg
Guy Bourdin




VOGUE PARIS
DEC. JAN. 
TRES SPECIAL 1970
IMAGINE PAR:Francoise Sagan
COVER: Make-up Serge Lutens
PHOTOGRAPH GUY BOURDIN


GUY BOURDIN
1928 - 1991
Great Beauty