Olivia Newton-John, a seductive siren

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Olivia Newton-John, a seductive siren if ever there was one, wearing an Indian cotton blouse £4.25, silk patchwork skirt £20, Afghanistan tapestry boots £27.50. All from Forbidden Fruit, 325 King’s Road, SW3, or mail order from Forbidden Fruit, 293a Portobello Road, W11 (provided you send 50p postage and packing that is). Embroidered Persian waistcoat £7 from Liberty, Regent Street, W1. Olivia’s seductively reclining on embroidered velvet cushions, anything from £4 to £40 at Rumak and Sample, in The Incredible Department Store, 92 Brompton Road, SW1. Sexy silk tiffany lampshade, £10.50 from Biba, 124-126 Kensington High Street, W8. Imported metallic wallpaper, £5.33 a roll including tax, comes from John Oliver, 33 Pembridge Road, W11. Add 33p postage and packing if you want him to send you some. Everything else comes from Liberty, and if you write to them, they’ll let you know about mail order possibilities. Black Chinese coffee table £45, Victorian frame stool £40, antique Italian column £18, hand-made Iraqi rug from £40. Reproduction painted icon £4.70, giant Boda goblet, one of a pair at £5.95, copper Persian tray £30, and copper Persian plant pot, £17.85.

Photographer uncredited.

Scanned from Vanity Fair, January 1972.

2 thoughts on “Olivia Newton-John, a seductive siren

  1. Alex Rigg's avatar

    How can it be from Vanity Fair January 1972?
    I’m confused. Vanity Fair stopped in 1936 and re started in the 80s didn’t it?

    1. Liz Eggleston's avatar

      I don’t understand the legalities but there was an entirely separate magazine called Vanity Fair in the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s. It was brilliant, especially in the early 1970s, but was merged into Honey Magazine later in 1972 (I think!). You can look up the tag and see all the other Vanity Fair things I’ve scanned.

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