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Sunday, January 25, 2015

SEVENTIES MENSWEAR - THE CALIFORNIA LOOK

A Nation Unto Itself ...

Tomorrow's man near right, shows the way in a tweedy salt-and-pepper suit teamed with a matching overcoat by Daniel Hechter. His partner in elegance wears camel-colored cashmere over a chocolate turtleneck with plaid pants in coordinated tones of camel and chocolate - all by Ralph Lauren.

Still on a coat theme; the return of the wrap: "McMichaels" by P.J. Michaels, slacks by Pierre Cardin. Giovannelli turtleneck. Right: shirt-styled blanket-plaid wool coat by Crown Climatic, DeNoyer turtleneck, slacks by McMurray.

Top coat with matching trousers by Kenneth Mark of Paris. Cashmere turtleneck by Dimitri of Italy. Kidskin gloves lined in silk by Mark Cross. The High-style of low-key plaid is reflected in the windowpane check wool overcoat by Dimitri of Italy. Soft wool slacks by Raphael.

Suit-up casual next to the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles. Plaid sport jacket trimmed with suede by Rubin Bros. International Fashion is teamed with olive gabardine slacks "Trousers by Barry." Olive turtleneck by Jockey.

Navy basket-weave sport jacket with camel-and-red overplaid worn with navy worsted slacks and a white shirt with a geometric motif in gray and burgundy and bright red tie with dots - all by Oscar de la Renta.

A closer look at plaids: brushed cotton suit with leather buttons by New Traditionals. Pierre Cardin shirt, bow tie by Handcraft. The brushed-leather side-zip boot with medium heel and moccasin-style piping is by Al Di La.

Right: the British way with plaided tweed by Authentic Imports. Shirt by Eagle. Tie by Principe. The shoes, smooth-leather slip-ons with interwoven cross-strap by French Shriner.

Watching the sun set on Malibu Beach. Basque-patterned cardigan with a shawl collar that converts to a turtleneck, by Pendleton. Career Club Shirt. Jeans by Live Ins.

In a Palm Springs date grove, a fruit salad-inspired shirt by Madman Shirts. Jeans by New Man for Jackie Rogers. Suede belt by Robert Salomone for Crystal Belts.

Art deco shirt by Geno. Slacks by Cloisters Diffusion. Handtooled Heart of the Country belt.

Caftan by Sartor Resartus. Bracelet by Michael Sklar for Childstar.

Top Left: shorty top by Sweet Cream division of UFO. Pinwhale- corduroy slacks by A. Smile. Top right: unconstructed sailcloth sport suit by Sniggen Piggen. Shirt by Valor. Suede belt by Paris Accessories

At the L.A. Airport, a hacking-pocketed blazer with single pleated slacks, knit shirt, and slub-weave sweater, all by Larry Kane for Raffles Wear. The double-knit sport coat to the right worn with complementing slacks are by Ratner. The sleeveless cardigan is by Columbia Knit. Shirt by Enro.

Is It True What They Say About California?

Gentlemen's Quarterly November 1972

Photography:

Bob Stone

Jerry Salvati

Robert A. Tindal

...eyes on the seventies at devodotcom

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

THE IN-CROWD ... NEW YORK'S ART SCENE 1966

Anemone leg designed by Joe Eula

Bryan Ferry - The In Crowd

On The New York Art Scene

Spearheading the structuralist movement is Donald Judd. His sleek, dry, assertive boxes at the Castelli Gallery transcend geometric cliches and allusions to other objects. His wife, Julie wears a pink dinner tent by Teal Traina.

"The Formal, frontal, next-to-godliness clean painting of Ellsworth Kelly, pioneered by him in the 1940's, established Kelly as the artist's artist of today." Beside him, Judith Heidler, of the Sydney Janis Gallery wears a carved white silk satin dress by Mollie Parnis."

Lookable Legs

Ballantyne White Cashmere T over Bryans Lace Tights

Ice-cube bracelet designed for Bazaar by Vendome

Salvatore Scarpitta's irrepressible racing cars gain aesthetic momentum in Leo Castelli's Gallery space, and from their tug-of-war with the walls. He considers himself a "square artist, as opposed to Pop,hip,cool. A racetrack is like a woman. The more beautiful, the more dangerous. You know that somewhere along the way, a man can meet the greatest or the most painful moment of his life."

Miss Susan Porter is photographed beside him in a softly-belted white wool crepe dress from Adele Simpson.

Enrique Castro-Cid's works can be outrageously loveable. Castro-Cid speaks with roisterous zest about Vesalius, Leibnitz, cybernetics. He and his wife Sylvia are an enchanting Chilean couple. His work is at the Richard Feigen Gallery. Sylvia wears Chester Weinberg.

Shock pink tights by Hanes. Earrings by Atelier Nina

Robert Watts takes the familiar into the synthetics of commercial culture. The object in its new locus is startling: chairs that light up with neon, a strobe-lit room in which one has the feeling of being alone in space with a man-made sun. Miss Dorothy Herzka of the Bianchini Gallery wears Christian Dior-New York.

Guy de Rougemont produces huge, slow-tension paintings. He shows at the Byron Gallery. He stands with Benedetta Barzini wearing a trouser-suit by Ginala.

Fashion Paper

The Paper Dress of Kayeel

Judith Brewer

In the expansive color paintings of Edward Avedesian, the single giant circle - striped in blushing yellows and oranges, voltage packed purples and blues - recurs with a deliberateness that enthralls anew each time. Though they are perfect circles and even stripes, their soft edges give the impression that they're swelling and shrinking as they bounce, dance and sometimes float off the canvas. Miss Linda Perlman of the Elkon Gallery where he shows, is wearing Oscar de la Renta.

John Gruen and Jane Wilson. She paints exquisite landscapes, shown at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. He is the chief art critic of the new World Journal. His vivid book, The New Bohemia, is just off the press. Jane's pitch-brown dress is by Chuck Howard of Townley. Kenneth Jay Lane jewelry.

Fashion Paper

Vibrant yellow and orange paper dress of plasticel

Judith Brewer

Half paintings, half sculptures, Sven Kukin's works leap from the canvas and crawl on the floor with a physical - almost living- presence and voracity for the room space at the Pace Gallery. Miss Jessie Sanders sits with him wearing Geoffrey Beene.

The extraordinarily potent sculptures of Paul Thek - raw torn pounds of what may be human flesh, residing in the clinical cool of glossy glass cases - hurt the viewer into extending his sensibilities. In his seemingly impersonal, inhuman treatment of an emotionally explosive subject, he challenges one to go beyond the initial shock, to an intellectual acceptance, and then to a rejoicing in the naked vulnerability of the flesh. With him, Miss Laura Morse wears Bill Blass for Maurice Retner.

A cap of pseudo pearls plunged shoulder-length in swirls of deft luster. A wig to outwit nature's plumage styled by Mark Traynor for Richelieu worn wit a brief bikini laden with the tiniest pearls - also by Richelieu.

The American Art Scene

Agnes Martin

Claes and Patty Oldenburg

Richard Lindner

Left-to-right

Top-to-bottom

James Rosenquist

Charles Hinman

Lee Bontecou

Tom Wesselman

Larry Bells

Lucas Samaras

Roy Lichtenstein

Kenneth Noland

Marvin Israel

The American Art Scene

Portraits by Diane Arbus

The Stocking Shoe

Herbert Levine-Nina Ricci

Giorgio de Chirico

Surrealism
or
"The White-Haired Revolver"

"Surrealism is tenacious, perennial. Surrealism is one of the central pivots of contemporary sensibility, of our sense of identity and dissociation. This revolutionary aspiration was articulated by a generation of men enchanted and possessed; one thinks of them walking the streets of Paris in that state of exacerbated awareness, of voracious attentiveness, which constitute forms of beatitude. The energy and fervor of these painters, poets and polemicists spilled out, unable wholly to spend itself in the manifestos,fights, festivities, in the rituals, games and acts of provocation.

Surrealist art was an art of redemption."

Annette Michelson

Rene Magritte

Max Ernst

Surreal Footwear

Plastic toe ring slipped over sandalfoot thong stockings by Mary Grey. Never-before sole of crystal-clear plexiglass designed especially for Harper's Bazaar by Mears. Ring by Atelier Nina.

The American Art Scene

Photography: Diane Arbus

On The New York Art Scene

Photography: Francesco Scavullo

Lookable Legs

Photography: Hiro Wakabayashi

Harper's Bazaar July 1966