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Carolyn Quartermaine, Chandelier, Gold settee, sequinned cardigan

Twinsets with Sparkle Part 2

May 11, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Apologies, Wednesday came and went….and so did Thursday. Time flies when you have things on your mind! I have an event next Friday, which I will no doubt blog about later, which is taking up a bit of my time, so I’m a little behind. So today you get two for one, this and a gorgeous Kate Moss shoot. Liquid Gold Industrial Chilling, Mediterranean Style Disco Fever Bohemian Image 1, Interior – Carolyn Quartermaine, Fashion – vintage scrapbook, Image 2, Interior […]

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Italians Do It Better Part 2

May 4, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

So here we are at the last part of this little journey, and what better to end with than some great Dolce & Gabbana campaign shots, courtesy of 10 Years of Dolce Gabbana? What I love about their campaigns is the feeling that you’ve walked in on something epic or onto the set of a Fellini film. The air is electrically charged – with models overwhelmed with ecstasy, passion, frustration or anger. Throw in a few Italian stereotypes and you’re […]

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Dolce & Gabbana Fall 1996, Fashion Illustration, Rose and Black Swagger Coat, Carolyn Everitt

Italians Do It Better – Part 1

May 2, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

While reading the Vogue article, featured in the last post, I came across a picture of Kate Moss in a Dolce & Gabbana swagger coat and rose embroidered dress – it looked so fresh but so 1950s, I was totally smitten. How this collection passed me by, I just don’t know – but could I find any images? Hell, no – nowhere. I even bought “10 Years of Dolce & Gabbana” but to no avail, although it proves rather essential […]

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The Original Mad Men – Saul Bass

April 26, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

“The minimalist auteur who put a jagged arm in motion in 1955 and created an entire film genre……and elevated it into an art” – New York Times Whom might this refer to? One of the greatest graphic designers of the mid 20th century and master of film title design – Saul Bass. The Design Museum featured an exhibition of his work in 2004 and, boy, I wish I had gone – I think I was knee deep in keeping one toddler […]

Categories: Illustration • Tags: 1950s, advertising, art, books, cinema, craft, culture, design, Entertainment, Fashion, film, films, history, hollywood, illustration, modernism, movies, music, photography, style, vintage

The Wicked Woman of the Jazz Age – Daisy Fellowes

April 10, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Every era has an “It” girl. She isn’t the most beautiful woman in the room, she isn’t the richest woman in the room nor is she the woman with the most glamorous outfit. She is the one women aspire to. She has more style and ingenuity in her little finger than her circle of friends put together. She isn’t a slave to fashion but 10 paces ahead – collecting the creative and the unique as she goes. In the Jazz […]

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Who’s Pussy Footing Around?

April 4, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

When I met Jason Brooks and David Downton at the Fashion Illustration event, back in December, they also had a selection of second hand illustration books. I managed to pick up this really cute one on Andy Warhol (which you can still purchase second hand) : You generally don’t think passed his silkscreens, as they’re so iconic, but these early illustrations, when Andy worked for the likes of Harpers Bazaar and Vogue, are really gorgeous. Simon Doonan, in the foreward […]

Categories: 1960s, Book Reviews, Fashion, Illustration, vintage • Tags: Andy Warhol, art, books, Chanel, Christian Louboutin, culture, design, Fashion, fashion illustration, illustration, Inspiration, Manolo Blahnik, photography, Shoes, shopping, style, vintage, vogue

Christy Turlington, Vogue Jan 1992, Arthur Elgort, Africa

Vintage Christy Turlington – African Queen

April 2, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

My mum returned from visiting my family in South Africa at the weekend – boy, did it make me home-sick. I then happened to be going through some of my old Vogue magazines and found one of my most favourite fashion shoots, Vogue January 1992 – Christy Turlington does White Mischief and Out of Africa. Two of my most favourite films. If you have never seen them – the fashion, the story, and the scenery in both are just too […]

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Brigitte Bardot, Roger Vadim, Car, St Tropez

When Brigitte found Bardot

March 27, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I’ve been transfixed by Brigitte Bardot since I was 16. I watched And God Created Woman, and that was it, I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. It’s a film I can go back to, time and time again, and never tire of it – perhaps because, since having read her biography, there seem to be more than just a few similarities between Brigitte and the character she plays, Juliette. There’s no glitz in the […]

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Bell Jar, industrial style, wooden cabinet

The Bell Jar

March 9, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Whenever I see Bell Jars, I think of Sylvia Plath. I studied her works for English Literature and it’s extraordinary how things that you have studied long ago, which you thought of at the time as just throw-away, seep into the unconscious and resurface at a later date. The book is often thought of as a “roman a clef”, or in lay-men’s terms, a written parallel of Plath’s own life and her descent into mental illness. Whilst the book ends […]

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