It's the chinese Year of the Horse

and I love horses and of course horsing around.

Here are a few equestrians from Vogue.

The True Cost - a very VERY important part of fashion!

A movie to look forward to

 

More of Frida Kahlo with love

     

 

For portraits of Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Murray see this post

 

 

Bianca Jagger with love

Bianca Jagger at Studio 54, 1978. Noone looks so good in a shirt, tie and jacket! <3

For more Bianca Jagger click here

Vogue Paris June/July 1952

 

 

 

 

Short film by Karl Lagerfeld starring Keira Knightley

Once Upon A Time about Coco Chanel.

Vivienne Westwood with love

a  true  role model

      

 

Happy Friday

Have a Great weekend!

Talitha Getty

Along with the likes of Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, Getty came to typify the fashion of the era.  She was innovative in her use of ethnic garb — caftans, Balinese wraps, and Moroccan djellabas adorned with mountains of middle-eastern costume jewelry while accessorizing with gladiator sandals (or no shoes at all) and crowns of flowers in her hair.  With her exotic ensembles and exuberant personal style, she initiated an entirely new genre of fashion titled “gypset”, (gypsy + jet-setter), forever solidifying her spot as a fashion icon.  Unfortunately, Getty’s time as a style phenom was cut drastically short, as were many iconic lives during this era.  However, with her beauty, individualism and stand-out imaginative style, she has left all of us with a forever fantasized lasting impression.

Marilyn Monroe at her last photoshoot for Vogue

Happy weekend!

 

Marilyn Monroe at her last photoshoot for Vogue.

Hiro Wakabayashi leaves me wanting more

More by Hiro Wakabayashi....

Photographer Hiro Wakabayashi's work Beauty in Strength, New York  from 1964, shows the bracelet on a woman’s wrist.  Interested in portraying a new generation of women by showing strength and vivacity, the artist tied a tourniquet on the model’s hand to make her veins stand out.

 Read more here

  

Advanced Style x Vogue Australia with love

One of my favourite blogs Advanced Style with Ari Seth Cohen has been featured in

Vogue Australia. 

 

Ever since I was a little girl I've looked up to the style, grace and beauty of older women and now I'm so happy to live in an age where our beauty ideals finally again include older ages. Vogue Australia has truly done something new. But I think it's just a matter of time until we get to see more ages in our fashion magazines in general. Once again we can look forward to the future.

 

Yasuhiro Wakabayashi to remember

Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, professionally known as Hiro, is an American commercial photographer. He was born in Shanghai in 1930 to Japanese parents. 

Hiro's work in fashion and still life from the mid-1960s onward has inspired many and remains a lasting influence today.

Heading for the beach?

 This is a little different but I guess it might have been comme il faut in some fashionable circles in the 1970s...

Jean Shrimpton with love

Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (born 7 November 1942) is an English model and actress. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world's first supermodels. She appeared on covers such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Elle, Ladies' Home Journal, Newsweek, and Time magazines

Born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and brought up on a farm, Shrimpton was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Slough. She enrolled at Langham Secretarial College in London when she was 17. Later it was suggested to her to attend the Lucie Clayton Charm Academy's model course abd in 1960, aged 17, she began modelling, appearing on the covers of popular magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Vanity Fair. During her career, Shrimpton was widely reported to be the "world's highest paid model", the "most famous model", and the "most photographed in the world".  She was dubbed "The It Girl", "The Face", and "The Face of the '60s". Glamour named her "Model of The Year" in June 1963. She contrasted with the aristocratic-looking models of the 1950s by representing the coltish, gamine look of the youthquake movement in 1960s Swinging London, and she was reported as "the symbol of Swinging London." By breaking the popular mould of voluptuous figures with her long legs and slim figure, she was nicknamed "The Shrimp".

Mrs P. and Truman Capote

“Mrs. P. had only one fault: She was perfect; otherwise, she was perfect."

-Truman Capote on Babe Paley

Great "second hand - ideas" at Harper's Bazaar

Dovima by Richard Avedon, Harper’s Bazaar December 1959

Anne Hathaway by David Slijper, Harper’s Bazaar UK subscriber cover February 2013

Esther Williams with love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walter Albini, photography by David Bailey

 

 

Walter Albini, a contemporary of Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent, reached great critical acclaim but died young in 1983 and has since been largely forgotten. Albini was born in 1941 and  had an essential role for Italian fashion but is also considered one of the fathers of the prêt à porter.

 

Photo by David Bailey.

Have really fallen in love with this photograph. If you know anything more about it, please do let me know.

              

 

Dunyale Luna with love

In March 1966 Dunyale Luna was featured on the cover of British Vogue, making her the first black woman to appear on the cover of any Vogue magazine, period.The iconic cover image shows Luna covering most of her face, which was allegedly a request of the magazine's editors to help mask her ethnicity. Another theory is that the photographer was influenced by the work of Picasso and his simple lines and different ways of representing a face.

Sadly, Luna's illustrious career was cut short when she passed away due to a heroin overdose in 1979.

Here are some favourite photographs of Dunyale Luna.