Showing posts with label Harper's Bazaar July 1958. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harper's Bazaar July 1958. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS 1958



The sweater as chemise
Caledonia

The backdrop: Richard Avedon's photographs of the 400-year-old monsters that inhabit the ruined park of the Palazzo Orsini in Bomarzo, Italy.


The short-coat sweater
Jane Irwill
skintight knitted pants
Geist and Geist




Gray flannel jumper over a red suede pullover
John Weitz

"Legend has it that these behemoths were chiseled from solid rock by the Turkish prisoners of an Orsini prince after Lepanto."



Leather "sweatering" in a middy of pale-cream kidskin
Samuel Roberts



Fisherman's knit cable sweater
Sidney Gould





Rib-knitted shirt collared, front sashed sweater
astride herringbone pants
Catalina


Wigs by Carita of Rome



Beauty And The Stone Beasts
Harper's Bazaar July 1958
Photography: Richard Avedon


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