CAPS AND GOWNS 1962

the lean coat

Mohair, plaided in purple and smoke gray, stand-up collar and close, slender sleeves. La Vigna.

Robin's-egg blue double-face wool double-breasted narrow topcoat. Originala.

Cardin for Zelinka Matlick                      Stanley Nelson

Navy blue wool overcoat, cut straight and narrow by Jack Sarnoff.

Currently, The Lean Coat

Photography: Saul Leiter

Long black crepe, narrow, screened with tiers of fringe at the low back decolletage and at the hem. By Jerry Silverman.

Rosy red wool crepe, sheer as chiffon, marking the midriff and capped with the smallest of sleeves. By Helga.

Cowl-throated white crepe slightly bloused, beautifully unembelished by Dorothy O'Hara. 

Broad belt embroidered in gold, beautiful boundary for the bolero-like top and drape-tucked skirt in green matelasse crepe by Lee Claire.

Black-Tie Crepes

Photography: Martin Munkacsi

Galanos, a new winged silhouette in soot black heavy brocade, gathered sleeves jut out like wings from the straight, slashed bateau neckline. Accentuating the widened shoulder, a long, smooth narrowness of tunic, ending just below the hip. Black tulle dome hat by Galanos.

A blaze of deep blue sequined embroidery on a net bodice of a short blue satin evening dress by Paul Parnes.

Drop rhinestones adorn the chiffon top of a long white satin evening dress by Mr. Blackwell.

Jewelled bolero made of velvet encrusted with golden bugle beads and pearls over a great-skirted faille dress the colour of parchment. Curved velvet jewelled waistband matches the bolero. By Branell.

A jewelled sweater of golden net embroidered with crystal beads under the smooth small jacket of a candlelight-colored evening suit by Harvey Berin.

Joseph Mazer twig pin crests a Monti coiffure. On the forehead, a rhinestone earring tikka by Trifari. The ballgown, by Scassi. Lotus blossom pin on the Viola Weinberger glove, by Vendome. A cluster of pineapple-shaped brooches by Trifari adorns the bodice. At the wrist, a rondelle necklace and flower clip.

Jewels at the Top

Photography: Hiro Wakabayashi

The Great Shapes

Harper's Bazaar October 1962

Photography:

Saul Leiter

Martin Munkacsi

Hiro Wakabayashi

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DECEMBER 1940

Brigance 

pistachio green wool pants 

lemon-yellow wrapped top

Martin Munkacsi

Bergdorf Goodman

One-piece sharkskin jumpsuit

Brigance

knee-length, side-wrapped shorts and wrapped top

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Lord & Taylor

Dinner Pajamas in sheer yellow wool

Edmond Frisch jewels

Hoyningen-Huene

Clare Potter

Omar Kiam

Fur-belted silk shantung dinner dress buttoned with big wheels of rhinestones.

Rosario Perez and Antonio Ruiz

The Kids from Seville

"The Nightclub sensation of the season."

Milgrim

Tailored white silk chiffon fastened at the top with tassels. Beads and paillettes encrust the lapels.

Bergdorf Goodman

White crepe printed with sheaves of deep-purple flowers. The skirt, a waterfall of shimmering white fringe.

Decor: Amster and Lamb

Tiered cotton lace from Henri Bendel

Decor by Amster and Lamb

Jay Thorpe

Altman

Jewels - Paul Flato

Kalmour at Saks Fifth Avenue

Spalding-Gorham Jewelry

Decor: Amster and Lamb

Photographs: Hoyningen-Huene

Schlumberger

Jewelry designer,Jean Schlumberger, designs his first dress in heavy white silk faille seamed in gold braid. At the waist, a sash of pale blue satin with black fringes.

This is a white issue...

Harper's Bazaar December 1940

Photography:

Hoyningen-Huene

Martin Munkacsi

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

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HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!

Martin Munkacsi
Harper's Bazaar June 1960

11-11-11

"The moment every child remembers forever.  A faint breath of perfume, a mother suddenly strange and wonderful in evening dress, stooping low for a second and then off to unknown adventures in an adult world."

  Red faille taffeta cape over a Molyneux printed cotton - Henri Bendel

The bassinet - Saks Fifth Avenue

Jewels  - Tiffany

Photography - Martin Munkacsi

Harper's Bazaar May 1935

MUNKACSI BY RICHARD AVEDON

Miss Elizabeth Arden,September 1939

Martin Munkacsi

Harper's Bazaar June 1964

"In 1934 my father lost a business he’d spent a lifetime achieving, and in his middle-years tried to sell life insurance that no one could afford to buy.  We moved from a long stucco house and six trees in Cedarhurst, Long Island, to a three-room apartment on Ninety-Eighth Street in New York, a corner of which was called The Dining Alcove. It was there the family ate in silence; it was also my windowless bedroom. I was eleven years old. The walls beside my bed and the ceiling above were my domain, and I covered them with my chosen view: a gleaning of five years’ Christmas tuberculosis seals, three-hundred Dixie Cup tops, and the photographs of Martin Munkacsi."

December 1934

"I cared nothing about photography and less about fashion, but the potentialities beyond Ninety-Eighth Street filled my waking dreams, and because my family subscribed to Harper’s Bazaar, it became my window and Munkacsi’s photographs my view."

December 1933

"One Sunday evening my father and I deep in what my father called our “man to man” arrived at Fifty-Ninth Street stopping to watch a photographer pose a model.  He asked her to lean against a tree, and in that dusk, whispered to her, changing the arch of her throat, the turn of her hand, whispering until her eyes lifted, until he was satisfied, and they left.   I stared at the view for a long time, not at all understanding why he had chosen a peeling tree when the park the fountain, the plaza were so dazzling around him."

Katherine, Marion and Peg Hepburn, August 1939

"Ten years later, in Paris, I saw for the first time the great flaking trees of the Champs Elysees; I understood then that he had found the only Proustian bark in New York, and he had photographed it. I knew by that time that the strong, witty, sensitive and anxious face on Fifty-Ninth Street ten years before was Munkacsi’s."

Miss Marlene Dietrich, September 1936

"It was my first lesson in photography, and there were many lessons after, all learned from Munkacsi, though I never met him.

The art of Munkacsi lay in what he wanted life to be, and he wanted it to be splendid. And it was."

BEAUTY'S ONLY SKIN DEEP

THE BEAUTIFUL BARBARIANS

SKIN - Wilhelmina

music to view by...moby porcelain

SKIN - a plunder of black-dyed fox worn with splendid arrogance

fur hood by Halston, Max Factor make-up,Van Cleef & Arpels jewel

SKIN - arresting profile outlined in mink-tipped braids. Mink from Revillon, coiffure by Monti.

SKIN - Outrageous hood to hide in white Mongolian lamb - intensely animal from Georges Kaplan

SKIN - miles and miles of South American horizontally-worked zorino by Georges Kaplan

SKIN - HAUTEUR: The Glance, The Stance Trigere dress with Aronowicz hat

SKIN - Russian snow leopard by James Terrence Brady of Bonwit Teller

SKINS -A MAGNIFICENT SPILL OF WHITE MINK TAILS BY HALSTON

Gee thanks - I always wanted a fur

Linda Manz - Days of Heaven

SKIN - FIRE: The Look, The Leap plumage of fur brazen, beautiful by Aronowicz in Australian lamb worn by Elsa Martinelli

SKIN - LEAPING from the heart of Tatary, barbaric, wild, rich Somali leopard by Emeric Partos

SKIN - A furry extravaganza by Halston, dress by Maurice Rentner

SKIN - Hauture and High Colour from Teal Traina and Aronowicz

SKIN - FAR-OUT STEPPES TO MAGNETISM untamed elegance borrowed from a Tatar princess. Fox at the throat custom-knit hat by Agat.

SKIN - Exotic, china-like luster Color Secret by Germaine Monteil

PIERRE BALMAIN - Spine-tingling drama in peacock feathers

The Beautiful Barbarians

In Feathers & Furs

photographs by Richard Avedon

Harper's Bazaar October 1962

Jeanloup Sieff

SCASSI

PAUL PARNES

Russian Crown Sable by Laurence Kay. Margaret Jerrold Shoe

Challenging Perspective

Jewels At The Top

Hiro Wakabayashi

NEW FALL FREEDOMS

Peter Pan

NEW FALL FIGURING

Chantress

NEW FALL FREEDOMS

Venus

Black-Tie Crepe

Jerry Silverman

Martin Munkacsi

The Lean Coat

La Vigna

Saul Leiter

Straight and Narrow

Jack Sarnoff

Saul Leiter

Jeanloup Sieff

Harper's Bazaar October 1962

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