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David Bailey, The Look of the Sixties, Jean Shrimpton, 1964, Goodbye Baby & Amen

The 60’s Look by David Bailey “Goodbye Baby & Amen”

September 10, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I’ve got to be honest, I very nearly gave up writing this post. I don’t know what is going on with this computer or perhaps it’s WordPress, but I feel like there’s a poltergeist at the keys. Somehow I even have a male voice telling me what I’m pressing, I nearly jumped three feet – the kids must have mucked around with the settings. Either that or there’s some weird sh*t going on! Anyway back to business. I got hold […]

Categories: 1960s, Book Reviews, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1960s, 1970's, art, arts, Barbara Streisand, beauty, books, celebrities, culture, David Bailey, design, Fashion, fashion illustration, film, Glamour, Goodbye Baby and Amen, history, Inspiration, jean shrimpton, Marisa Berenson, movies, photography, style, vintage

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Serge Lido, Vintage Ballet, 1950's dance

Vintage Ballet Gets Edgy – Part 2

August 29, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Continuing on from Vintage Ballet Part 1, here are some more gorgeous images. I don’t know about you but these seem much more West Side Story than Swan Lake. I love the first image – she looks such a cool cat. Nothing left to say other than loving those zebra pants! (All images by Serge Lido, last image by Baron)

Categories: 1950s, Book Reviews, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1950s, art, arts, Ballet, Baron, beauty, books, culture, dance, design, Entertainment, Inspiration, movies, photography, Serge Lido, style, vintage

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Serge Lido, Annual ballet magazine, photographer, vintage dance photographs

Vintage Ballet by Serge Lido Part 1

August 22, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

At the weekend I was extremely fortunate to have been given these exquisite vintage ballet books from the 1950’s. Basically two of my greatest passions rolled into one – vintage and dance. Serge Lido was born in Moscow and became one of the greatest photographers of dance in the twentieth century. Based in Paris he and his wife Irene Lidova travelled Europe creating a magnificent record of contemporary and classical ballet. Since there are so many images to choose from […]

Categories: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1940s, 1950s, art, arts, Ballet, beauty, books, burlesque, culture, dance, design, dressmaking, Entertainment, Fashion, Inspiration, photography, Serge Lido, style, travel, vintage

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Young pin up Marilyn in a towel and tan lines

Marilyn – Pin Up vs Portrait

August 6, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

This weekend was the 50th anniversary of Marilyn’s death. I wanted to do a “10 favourite images” but a) I couldn’t narrow it down to 10 and b) there seemed such a distinction between the pin up shots and the portrait shots, I thought I’d make a point of it. So which do you prefer – the pin-up or portraits? From Pin Up Photo: Andre de Dienes Playboy 1953 Photo: Milton Greene Photo: Sam Shaw Photo: Milton Greene To Portrait […]

Categories: 1950s, Fashion, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1950s, art, beauty, celebrities, Chanel, culture, Entertainment, eve arnold, Fashion, films, Glamour, history, hollywood, Inspiration, marilyn monroe, MIlton Greene, movies, photography, Pin up, playboy, style, vintage

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Helmut Newton, Cardin Gres, 1971 Harper's & Queen

Helmut Newton’s Menacing Marais 1971

August 1, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I must admit I’m not a huge 70’s aficionado. I did go through a stage at university wearing long indian dresses, 70’s flares from Camden market and this ill-fitting sheepskin coat – but generally it isn’t my favourite style era. However, my mother in law gave me this 1971 Harper’s & Queen, and I must say this beautiful runway edit, shot by Helmut Newton in the Marais, has me re-thinking the 70’s. I love the prints and scarfs. I’d love […]

Categories: 1970, Fashion, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1970's, art, beauty, Cardin, Chanel, craft, design, Dior, dressmaking, Fashion, fashion illustration, film, films, Harper's & Queen, Helmut Newton, Inspiration, Lanvin, movies, photography, style, travel, vintage

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Lillian Bassman, Black basque, Lingerie

How can you look so naughty and feel so nice?

July 27, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I recently bought the book “Lingerie” featuring the beautiful photography of Lillan Bassman. Bassman became a photographer in the late 1940’s. Her images of women broke the mould, emphasising a more intimate portrayal and establishing a niche in lingerie and night-wear photography. Harpers Bazaar, March 1954 Carmen Dell’Orefice, Merry Widow 1951 Bassman was an avid watcher of women and in the book it describes how, in the mid 1940’s, she began to study the body language of those who made […]

Categories: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Book Reviews, Fashion, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, art, beauty, books, burlesque, culture, design, dressmaking, Fashion, Harpers Bazaar, Inspiration, Lillian Bassman, Lingerie, photography, reviews, shopping, style, vintage

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Madam Satan, Kay Johnson, Adrian, Zepplin Ball Gown, 1930

The Five Year Rule of the She-Serpent

July 25, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

My mistress is very sensitive to the clothes she wears. She’s a phenomenon. If she has a lively dress she’s lively, like today. If she has a shy dress she’s shy, like yesterday. And everything changes, everything: she talks in a different way, she’s somebody else. She’s dressed in sparkling and very close-fitting green scales: the dress ends in a thin sharp tail. From the neckline a kind of snake emerges and continues in spirals twice around her neck, it’s […]

Categories: 1920s, 1930s, Book Reviews, Fashion, Illustration, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1920s, 1930s, art, beauty, books, celebrities, craft, culture, deborah nadoolman landis, design, dressmaking, Entertainment, Erte, Fashion, fashion illustration, film, films, Glamour, history, illustration, Inspiration, Jospehine Baker, literature, Madam Satan, massimo bontempelli, movies, photography, She-Serpent, style, The Mystic, vintage

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1940's Perspex Shoes, Italy

The Return of the Perspex Heel

July 18, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to showcase the 1941 perspex heeled shoes below, from the book Fashion at the time of Fascisim. They just look so remarkably modern, particularly the wedges, that you really wouldn’t look twice if they appeared in the pages of Vogue. And indeed this month’s Vogue’s Catwalk Guide has given me the perfect opportunity to put these babies back into the limelight. From Yves St Laurent to Chanel to Rodarte, perspex is the material “de […]

Categories: 1940s, 1960s, Fashion, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1940s, 1960s, barbarella, beauty, Chanel, design, Fashion, film, films, Glamour, Inspiration, movies, paco rabanne, perspex, Perspex accessories, photography, Rodarte, Shoes, shopping, style, vintage, vogue, Yves St Laurent

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Sam Haskins, Cowboy Kate and other stories, 1960s makeup

The Sam Haskins Effect

July 9, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

This is one of my favourite Vogue shoots from 1996. Shot by Nick Knight and featuring (I am sure) Jodie Kidd, these black and white misty shots are really reminiscent of Sam Haskins 1960’s photography. I didn’t really get into Sam Haskins’ photography until one of his images appeared on The Last Shadow Puppet’s album, The Age of the Understatement. I then managed to get hold of the director’s cut of Cowboy Kate and other stories, and just fell in […]

Categories: 1960s, Book Reviews, Fashion, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1960s, art, beauty, books, burlesque, celebrities, Cowboy Kate, Fashion, Glamour, Inspiration, Jodie Kidd, Kate Moss, music, Nick Knight, photography, Sam Haskins, showgirl, style, vintage, vogue

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