Tag: culture

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

Lanvin, Autumn Winter Campaign 2012, Older women, real people

Is The Older Woman The New Cool?

August 3, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

It’s that time of year when all the new designer campaigns lace the pages of the September magazines and this year change is in the air. Could it be that the fashion industry has finally woken up to the fact that older women just might be pretty damn cool? Lanvin, Loewe, Dolce & Gabbana and Bulgari lead the way – demonstrating that style, edginess, and individuality is only enhanced with age. I say three cheers to that – and about […]

Categories: Fashion, Photography2, vintage • Tags: advertising, Autumn Winter 2012, beauty, Bulgari, By Malene Birger, Campaigns, celebrities, culture, design, Dolce and Gabbana, Fashion, fashion illustration, Glamour, Inspiration, Lanvin, literature, Loewe, photography, shopping, style, vintage, Women

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

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

The Red Riding Hood Collection

July 20, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I watched Red Riding Hood the other night and whilst the story was a bit thin on the ground, the costumes and scenery were breathtaking. It’s real woodland fairy tale stuff. During the week I took a peek at Ulyana Sergeenko’s Fall 2012 collection. As you know I’m a HUGE fan, I love her folksy 1940’s style, always accessorised with little booties. (If you think the perspex heels look tretcherous just take a look at these – better still, watch […]

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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

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

Sequins from Weimar

June 25, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Our step back to the Weimar Republic at Herr Kettner’s was most enjoyable. The dress code stated “1920s Berlin, moustachioed dandies, dizzy flappers, monocled counts, decadent aesthetes, firebrand radicals, apoplectic Teutonic military officers, predatory cross-dressers, itinerant jazz musicians, black or white tie”. So of course, a little research was required, as seen below – courtesy of Marlene Dietrich, Henry and June, Cabaret and some decadent 1920’s fashion illustrations. Oh and the rather mischievous Clara Bow: Top illustration by me Marlene […]

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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