Tag: Entertainment

Maison Close, Sky Arts 2, Burlesque, Corsets

The Lure of the Bordello

August 14, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

My guilty pleasure at the moment is the series Maison Close on Sky Arts 2, about a bordello in the heart of Paris in 1871. Have you been watching it? It’s rather compulsive viewing. The first scene in the first episode shows you pretty much what to expect and it’s risque with a capital R! But of course it’s not the (ahem..) antics of the show that inspire – it’s most definitely the fashion. Corsets, camisoles, cami-knickers, petticoats, masks, gloves […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: 1871, art, arts, beauty, bordello, burlesque, Cannes Film Festival, craft, culture, design, dressmaking, Entertainment, Fashion, fashion illustration, film, films, Glamour, history, maison close, movies, Paris, photography, reviews, style, travel, vintage

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

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 […]

Categories: 1940s, Fashion • Tags: 1940s, art, beauty, celebrities, craft, culture, design, dressmaking, Entertainment, Fashion, film, films, Glamour, Inspiration, movies, photography, red riding hood, shopping, style, ulyana sergeenko, vintage

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 […]

Categories: 1920s, Dance, Fashion, Illustration, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1920s, art, art deco fashion, beauty, books, burlesque, Cabaret, cats, craft, culture, dance, design, diy, dressmaking, Entertainment, Fashion, fashion illustration, fashion illustrations, film, films, flapper dress, Glamour, history, hollywood, illustration, Inspiration, Kettner's, marlene dietrich, movies, music, photography, reviews, style, vintage, Weimar Republic

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

The Rivoli Ballroom, Brockley, South London

Rocking the Rivoli

June 6, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Do you remember me talking about an “event” I was working on, but I was waiting for the pictures? Well finally I’m able to share them with you. So, imagine the scene – the Rivoli Ballroom. Built in 1913 as a picture palace, it now stands as one of the last remaining ballrooms in London. With original chinese lanterns, flock wallpaper, chandeliers and glitter balls, this is one cool venue. So cool, in fact, that the line up of gigs […]

Categories: Dance, Vintage Archive • Tags: 1920s, 1950s, art, arts, beauty, burlesque, Cabaret, celebrities, culture, dance, design, Entertainment, Fashion, film, Glamour, history, Inspiration, Interiors, music, photography, Rivoli Ballroom, style, Theatre, travel, vintage