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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THE LOOK WONDERFUL 1963

Saint Laurent's Black Leather Helmet

Saint Laurent's Thigh-high Crocodile Boot

The year 1963 hinted at major changes to come for fashion in the sixties. Courreges, known for his ultra-modern designs, introduced the mini skirt on the Paris runways. In America the bikini became a swimwear standard, and Jackie Kennedy’s Pill Box hat, designed by Oleg Cassini, was forever embedded in fashion history with the image of her Cassini designed pink ensemble worn on the day of President Kennedy’s assassination.

This is the year of Cleopatra, the most expensive film ever made. Taylor and Burton’s “Le Scandale” dominated international headlines.

As the world followed them, Burton and Taylor followed Cleopatra the same year with the V.I.P.’s – a film that takes place within Heathrow Airport with a host of characters stranded during a heavy fog. The film was based on the true story of Vivien Leigh’s attempt to leave husband Laurence Olivier and fly off with actor Peter Finch – only to be delayed by fog.

Elizabeth Taylor’s costumes for the V.I.P.’s were the designs of Pierre Cardin, little known in America at the time but soon to become a leading fashion influence of the sixties.

While sixties makeup was inspired by the beauty of Taylor as Cleopatra, and Taylor was noted as elegantly ensembled in The V.I.P.’s, it was the December release of Charade starring Audrey Hepburn, dressed by Givenchy, alongside co-star – the eternally debonair Cary Grant, that best depicted the fashion scene and the way women of means wanted to look at the time. Still do.

Cardin's Curved-cut Two piece

Mademoiselle Ricci

Fourquet

Dior New York

Mr. Blackwell

Dan Millstein

Charles Cooper - Halston Hat

White Stag

Monkey Fur by Novarese

The Look Wonderful

Harper's Bazaar September 1963

Photography: Hiro Wakabayashi

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MR. BLACKWELL - 1963

MR. BLACKWELL - 1963

Born Richard Selzer, the former child actor invented the name “Dick Ellis” for his stage career and reinvented himself in 1958 as a fashion designer with a new surname and a line of clothing called simply, "Mr. Blackwell."  He enjoyed his reputation as America’s best known and sometimes feared fashion critic and creator of the “Ten Worst Dressed Women List.” Of his eagerly anticipated annual list Mr. Blackwell reported he was “sick of the ugly clothes that were being presented in the fashion industry and, as a dress designer, wanted to express his opinion.”

The list was started by Blackwell in 1960 with Anna Magnani in the number one spot - Brigitte Bardot a close second, and appeared January of each year through 2008 when Victoria Bekham beat out Amy Winehouse for the top spot on the list.


Whirlwind Of: Clinging Lines
Harper's Bazaar March 1963
Photography: Hiro Wakabayashi

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