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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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Dancing Shoes, cinemagraph

An Animated Epidemic

July 2, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Since the post on The Cinemagraph, I keep on expecting images to move! It’s become a new obsession and for everyone else, it seems. So here are some of my latest finds……… Source: Televandalist Source: The Beauty Model Source: The Beauty Model Source: From Me To You Source: From Me to You Source: Bloomingdale’s My favourite is definitely the smoking one – I think it has a certain vintage feel to it. What’s yours? If you find more, do let […]

Categories: Fashion, Photography2, vintage • Tags: art, beauty, cinemagraph, culture, design, diy, Entertainment, Fashion, Frommetoyou, Glamour, illustration, images, Inspiration, Jamie Beck, photography, shopping, style, technology, vintage

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The Chelsea Hotel, New York

Between The Sheets At The Chelsea

June 29, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, You were talking so brave and so free. Giving me head on an unmade bed While the limousines wait in the street And those were the reasons and that was New York, (Leonard Cohen)  This was one crazy hotel! Penned by Leonard Cohen, lived in by a host of creative types from Andy Warhol and Arthur Miller (after his divorce from Marilyn), to Quentin Crisp, Jackson Pollock and Janis Joplin. In this […]

Categories: 1950s, 1960s, Fashion, Interiors, Photography2, vintage • Tags: 1960s, art, arthur miller, books, celebrities, culture, design, dylan thomas, edie sedgwick, Entertainment, Fashion, film, history, hotel chelsea, Inspiration, Interiors, literature, marilyn monroe, music, photography, sid vicious, style, travel, vintage

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West Elm South African Collaboration

Tea Leaves From South Africa

June 18, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Elle Decor made me very home sick last week, with their feature on West Elm’s collaboration with Cape Town and Johannesburg artists. Lucky US customers will see a roll out of this South African collection over the coming month, with furniture from John Vogel, pottery by Mick Haigh, lighting by Shirley Fintz and even a limited edition of south african flavoured objects in the form of Masai chokers on stands and beaded birds. One of the things I love about […]

Categories: Interiors, vintage • Tags: art, arts, Cape Town, craft, culture, design, diy, dressmaking, Inspiration, Interiors, jewelery, Johannesburg, lifestyle, photography, shopping, South Africa, style, travel, vintage, West Elm

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Tocca Laundry, Fashion Illustration, Carolyn Everitt

Timeless Tocca

June 17, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

My mum rang me the other day to say that she’d gone through some of the cupboards at home, and had come across some old Elle Decoration magazines, from when I was still living at home. Well, you can imagine my excitement. There is something thrilling about going through old magazines and seeing nostalgic images and trying to fit them into your life’s timeline – “where was I, what was I doing, who was I going out with?” One of […]

Categories: Fashion, vintage • Tags: art, beauty, celebrities, craft, culture, design, diy, dressmaking, Fashion, fashion illustration, Glamour, Helena Christensen, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, photography, shopping, style, Style.com, Tocca, vintage, vogue

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The Alcazar, Seville, Instagram

Lessons in Design

June 11, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Sometimes there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned dose of historical design to hit the inspiration button like a thunder bolt. Seville was no exception – in particular the Royal Palace or Alcazar. It was truly jaw-dropping. (Although rather difficult to find – that could, however, just be my husband and I – we must have passed the same horse at least five times and were way to embarrassed to ask where this incredible attraction was housed.) Just when I was […]

Categories: Interiors, Photography2, vintage • Tags: Alcazar, art, arts, books, craft, culture, design, diy, fashion illustration, film, films, history, illustration, Inspiration, Interiors, photography, style, technology, travel, vacation, vintage

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Coco Rocha Projector, The Cinemagraphs

The Cinemagraph

June 8, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Following on perfectly from my dalliance with The Rivoli, one of my wonderful partners-in-crime, Linda, offered to write a guest post, and I bit her hand off before she changed her mind. Not only is this lady an amazing dancer, and leaves us breathless with her unique style when she breezes into the studio, but she is also a technical wizard. Not fair, I say! So sit back and enjoy a “behind the scenes” look at the technical phenomena that’s […]

Categories: Fashion, Photography2, vintage • Tags: art, beauty, blogging, cinemagraph, culture, design, Entertainment, Fashion, fashion illustration, film, films, gif animation, Glamour, illustration, Inspiration, photography, style, technology, Tumblr, video

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