One of my favourite illustrators of all time, Malcolm Bird takes the very essence of what I love about the Twenties/Thirties and the Sixties/Seventies and just melds them together with a Beardsley-esque eye for detail in little works of genius like this. Intended to illustrate a frivolous quiz on finding the right perfume for you (I’m resolutely a D, in case anyone was ever in any doubt) he gives us a brilliant cross-section of ‘types’ from 1970. I have separated the illustration above but you’ll find the quiz below for a bit of fun.
Illustrated by Malcolm Bird.
Scanned from Vanity Fair, April 1970.
Malcolm Bird is a favourite of mine too. I have a couple of originals taken from, I think, my ‘Honey’ magazines back in the day. If I can find them I will forward them to you.
Lee