BERT STERN - FASHION WHERE THE FUN IS 1965

 Douglas Auchincloss

"Cutting up. cutting loose - American fashion is having a fine time for itself this spring. Clothes flow along the body, blow around the knees - one way or another, they're fast on their feet and fun to wear. Douglas Auchincloss, a tall dashing man with hair like good silver fox and a wit to match, is every woman's dream dinner partner - funny, bright, fascinated. He is Modern Living editor of Time Magazine."

Fashion: 

Jacques Tiffeau for Tiffeau & Busch

Bracelets by Castlecliff

Coiffure by Kenneth

Catherine Deneuve and Jacques Demy

"Young French charmers, the star and the author-director of the disarming movie, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, which almost everyone adores. Catherine Deneuve is a tiny blonde with dark-hazel eyes, a skin like rose-petals and fresh Normandy cream. With childish relish, she describes her next movie:'"I kill one man with a candlestick, another with a razor blade. I am inhibited folle!"'

Fashion

Mademoiselle Ricci

Coiffure: Sebou of House of Revlon

Sammy Davis Jr.

"Sammy Davis, Golden Boy, is the entertainer's entertainer: actor, impersonator,stand-up comic,singer, dancer."

Fashion:

Harvey Berin

Originals ring

Coiffure: Ara Gallant

David Bailey

"a small, dark, scowlishly handsome man with a nice cockney wit and a penchant for dressing in odd bits and pieces, he is England's bright young fashion photographer - the one every model longs to pose for. Possibly because, through the eye of his camera, all women turn out to be prettier that even their mother had dreamed..."

Fashion:

Estevez

Jack Gilbert Jewellery

Kenneth Coiffure

Robert Morse

"Robert Morse - mugging, clowning, eye-rolling his way across two pages - has dimples, Skeezix hair, and as many ways of conveying comic boyishness as a diamond has facets."

- today we know him as Bertram Cooper of Mad Men

Fashion:

George Carmel

Castlecliff Bracelets

Adolfo Hat

Marisa Berenson

Monte-Sano & Pruzan

Lilly Dache Hat

Wilhelmina

Ben Reig

Ben King belt

Capezio Shoes

Miss Alice Hat

Eli Wallach

'"Do you know I'm more in love today than on the day I married?"' he reveals, with a catch in his voice, but my wife won't give me a divorce."

Fashion:

Christian Dior-New York

Pallizio Shoes

Leather Hat: Lilly Dache

Alan Bates

"Alan Bates is Poor Richard, a British Poet with problems: he is full of guilt, he drinks, he has writers' block - a combination that is catnip to the heroine."

Fashion:

Mollie Parnis

Earrings by Schreiner

Coiffure: Ara Gallant

Alan Arkin ... Of Course!

Fashion:

Young America Oleg Cassini

Apex Art Necklace

Evins Shoes

Kenneth Coiffure

Peter Shaffer

"A cozy, crew-cut koala-bear of a man who writes plays that have a way of getting around and staying around."

Fashion:

Sarmi

Pappagallo Shoes

Mimi di N Bracelets

Mr. John Hat

Art Carney-Veruschka-Walter Matthau-Mike Nichols

"Carried away by the fun, the original Odd Couple, Art Carney and Walter Matthau. The Man with "The Nichols Touch," Mike Nichols, a comic phenomenon that's been the fizz of three funny plays so far; soon to be turned loose in movies."

Fashion:

Shannon Rogers for Jerry Silverman

Schreiner Earrings

Pattulo-Jo Copeland

Castlecliff Bangles

Kenneth Coiffure

Fashion Where 

The 

Fun 

Is

Vogue 1965

Photography: Bert Stern

...eye on the sixties at devodotcom

PAPARAZZI - THE CHASE 1962 -MIKE NICHOLS AND SUZY PARKER AS LIZ AND DICK

Suzy Parker in Lanvin-Castillo's Wide-Shouldered Suit - Mike Nichols looks on protectively.

Richard Avedon

 Richard Avedon's fashion spread of  Suzy Parker & Mike Nichols in a fashion send-up, scandal-sheet style, of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton fleeing from the mobs of paparazzi hounding them at the start of their love affair during the filming of Cleopatra in Rome 1961.

Lanvin-Castillo

In the November 2007 Harper’s Bazaar

140th Anniversary Issue Mike Nichol’s explains his part in the now-iconic fashion spread.




"It started, essentially, as a joke. Dick was a friend of mine, and he called up and asked if I'd like to play this gag on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra," says director Mike Nichols of the now-legendary fashion-story/tabloid send-up that he and supermodel Suzy Parker starred in for Harper's Bazaar in 1962. "I said, 'sure, why not?'" continues Nichols, then a thirty-year-old comic. "I'd made fun of a lot of people at that point; it seemed like a great idea."


Mike Nichols
Harper's Bazaar November 2007

SOFT LEOPARD FROM DIOR

The Paparazzi scan from the bushes

Simonetta-Fabiani's Culotte Suit

Patou's Short Crepe

Chanel's Cocktail Suit

Dior's Divided Skirt Suit

Dior's Hooded Evening Dress

Ocelot by Guy Laroche

Nina Ricci's shoulder-long monk's hood in soft gray opossum.

Saint Laurent's sand beige shirt coat


THE END
Story photographed by Richard Avedon
Starring Suzy Parker and film director Mike Nichols
Harper's Bazaar September 1962