One of my favourite bloggers, Miss Moss, has been scanning a collection of Vogue covers from an old book she has recently unearthed called The Art of Vogue Covers. It's hard to believe they are almost 100 years old! ...and how different are the Vogue covers today! You can see her full flickr set here.
I watched a fab trailer the other day for a new documentary about the legendary editor and stylist Diana Vreeland. It's called "The Eye Has to Travel" and is coming out in September.
The documentary starts with her early years as a socialite and then covers her time as editor at Harper's Bazaar (1937 - 1962) and Vogue (1962 - 1971). It has a commentary by such people as Anjelica Huston, Anna Sui, Manolo Blahnik, Lauren Hutton and Diana von Furstenberg. It also gives tidbits about Vreeland's peccadillos like she used to have her tissues and dollar bills ironed before she put them in her handbag, that she often worked in the bath tub and that lunch was a peanut butter and marmalade sandwich with scotch. Below are some images from her time at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
I think it looks like a fun and informative film which would interest anyone who's fond of fashion and history. You can watch the trailer here. There is also a website for her which is well worth while exploring too.
Like a lot of people, I've been perusing the red carpet action at Cannes over the past few days. I didn't intend to blog about the dresses as I feel there's enough of that already swimming around in the blog sphere, but I just couldn't resist these three beauties! Fan Bingbing (love that name!), Naomi Watts and Jessica Chastin all wore incredibly pretty dresses I thought. What's your verdict?
Images from here.
Peggy Moffitt (model and muse) + William Claxton (husband and photographer) + Rudi Gernreich (designer) = The Total Look exhibition at MOCA in LA. How beautiful are these photos?
All images from here.
Happy Monday folks! I've had a fab weekend. Saturday was absolutely glorious here in Sydney! I managed to get in the sort of epic walk you reminisce about for years later with family and friends. Well, that's possibly a slight exaggeration, but it was pretty good. I also managed to finally get to see this doco: Bill Cunningham New York.
The 82 year old Bill Cunningham has been photographing New York street style for years. He was out and about long before The Sartorialist was even a twinkle in his mother's eye. For over 40 years his decoupage of street styles have been a fixture at The New York Times and other publications such as the now defunct Details Magazine. He is quite a character although he is obviously well loved and respected by the serious fashion crowd in Europe and North America as there are cameos by Anna Wintour, Anna Piaggi and Tom Wolfe to name but a few.
It's fun weekend viewing and is as much about New York as anything else which can never be a bad thing!
Images from here.
There is a fab exhibition at the Howard Greenberg Gallery called New York in Colour. The images span several decades from the 1950s to the present. Here are a few of my favourites from the exhibition.
Happy weekend!
All images from here.
Bill Gaytten, the man responsible for taking over after Galliano was dismissed, has returned to Dior's roots with the "New Look" inspired collection he showed on Friday. The subtle dusky pinks, plums with dashes of red are ravishing as are the dresses and suits themselves. I love, love love them all!
Happy weekend!
I guess any internet surfer worth their weight has already fully scrutinised the Oscar frocks. After all, it was a full day and a half ago that the net was saturated with all things Oscar! However, I'd like to add my two cents too! So, here are my favourite looks from the evening...
Much has been said about Angelina Jolie's Oscar frock....and that leg. Well, I'd like to think the woman has a sense of humour and that she's vamping it up as some sort of comment on previous press about her choice in red carpet looks or...something. Well, that's what I'd like to think anyway. But, really, at the end of the day, I think she looks pretty sensational in all that plush black velvet. Emma Stone, to my mind, looks super stylish and that colour is stunning on her.
Absolutely adore Gwyneth's cape - she is the red carpet super hero! Milla Jovovich is Hollywood personified!
I am a huge Rose Byrne fan. Not just because she's a local Sydney gal, but because she's incredibly pretty and a fab actor to boot! This liquid sequin black number is ravishing on her.
Happy Wednesday all! :0)
All images from here.
Nicaraguan beauty Bianca Jagger is perhaps my favourite of Mick's ex-girlfriends/ wives.
Love this last photo of them together. Imagine seeing these two walk into the room! Wow!
George Lepape (1887 - 1971) is best known for his exquisite illustrations for revolutionary fashion designer Paul Poiret. However, he also created divine illustrations for fashion houses such as Worth, Lanvin, Paquin, Doucet and Beer . In addition to his fashion commissions, he drew the very first Vogue cover and his illustrations for Harper's Bazaar, Gazette du Bon Ton and Vanity Fair are still loved and admired today.
This first image of his from a Vogue cover in the 20s is perhaps my all time favourite!
Happy Friday!
