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Jane Fonda, Cannes, 1960's

Jane Fonda’s Lessons on Life

October 12, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

How gorgeous are these pictures of Jane Fonda and Alain Delon, taken by Edward Quinn in Cannes in the early sixties? So young and fresh:   edwardquinn.com Have any of you subscribed to Amanda de Cadenet’s “The Conversation”? It’s like a celebrity online interview (Donna Karan, Zoe Saldana, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga etc) but specifically for women. I’m not a massive celebrity lover but I’m actually quite hooked because it does come across as a very natural interaction. My very […]

Categories: 1960s, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1960s, Amanda de Cadenet, beauty, books, celebrities, culture, Entertainment, Fashion, film, films, Glamour, history, Inspiration, Jane Fonda, lifestyle, literature, movies, photography, style, The Conversation, TV, vintage

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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

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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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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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Clare Basler, Flower Portraits, Paris Workshop

Flower House

May 14, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Nestled in the outskirts of Paris, is this wonderful workshop. An artisan home which feels like it’s evolved from the Eden Project. Here, it’s difficult to see where art begins and functional living ends. Both are caught up in a meadow of flowers. How refreshing to wake up here? The former iron-works belong to Clare Basler. Her beautiful flowered panels litter the walls making it difficult to distinguish what is greenery from the outside and what is inside, what is […]

Categories: Interiors • Tags: architecture, art, clare Basler, craft, culture, design, Elle Decoration, Entertainment, Flowers, illustration, Inspiration, Interiors, literature, nature, photography, plants, style, travel, vintage

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Daisy Fellowes, Jazz Age, Cecil Beaton

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 […]

Categories: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Book Reviews, Fashion, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1920s, 1930s, art, beauty, books, celebrities, Chanel, craft, culture, Daisy Fellowes, design, Fashion, fashion illustration, Glamour, Harpers Bazaar, history, Inspiration, Karl Lagerfeld, literature, music, photography, style, The Jazz Age, vintage

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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 […]

Categories: 1920s, 1940s, Fashion, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1920s, 1940s, Africa, arthur elgort, beauty, books, celebrities, culture, Fashion, fashion illustration, film, films, Glamour, history, Inspiration, literature, movies, photography, style, travel, vintage, vogue

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Helena Christiansen, Chanel No5, vintage home

At home with Helena

March 29, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Whenever I go to Selfridges, I always make a point of going to the magazine section, on the ground floor. I’m like a pig in clover, surrounded by masses of international magazines and inspiration overload. Only this time I was a little disappointed. I must have flicked through about 6 magazines – all pretty much showing the same fashion shoot – edgy with splashes of nudity, piercings and androgyny. Not that I have problem with any of these you understand. […]

Categories: Fashion, Interiors, Photography2 • Tags: art, arts, beauty, celebrities, craft, design, Entertainment, Fashion, Helena Christensen, illustration, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, literature, Magazines, photography, style, the selby, vintage

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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 […]

Categories: 1950s, 1960s, Fashion, Photography2, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1950s, and God created woman, art, books, Brigitte Bardot, cats, celebrities, culture, dance, design, drama, Elle magazine, Entertainment, Fashion, film, films, Glamour, history, Inspiration, literature, movies, music, photography, roger vadim, St Tropez, style, travel, vintage

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