Boots, Bourdin and a very Good Boy

1970s, charles jourdan, guy bourdin, Harpers Bazaar, Vintage Adverts

These seemingly endless adverts Bourdin did for Charles Jourdan are always little works of genius. Also, from a current perspective, I’m enjoying the names of the boots.

Photographed by Guy Bourdin.

Scanned from Harpers Bazaar, September 1970.

the pillbox

Browns, guy bourdin, hats, Inspirational Images, karl lagerfeld, Manuella Papatakis, Moravetz, Vogue

Here are the beginnings of a new silhouette and a new face, eyeliner, lipstick, not much mascara, a little rouge. Hair sleeked away somewhere. The hat: an uncompromising pillbox tipped over one eyebrow. Get used to it now, before anyone else.

Both hats by Karl Lagerfeld for Chloe, at Browns.

Veiling from John Lewis. Necklace, £6.75, Butler & Wilson.

Hair by Regis at Mods Hair, Paris.

Make-up by Moravetz.

Photographed by Guy Bourdin.

Scanned from Vogue, August 1972.

Black cire draped pillbox on Manuella Papatakis, daughter of Anouk Aimee.

Jourdan by Bourdin

1970s, charles jourdan, guy bourdin, Inspirational Images, shoes, Vintage Adverts, Vogue

It’s always a thrill to find another one of these…

Shoes by Charles Jourdan.

Photographed by Guy Bourdin.

Scanned from Vogue, late April 1974.

Drink to me only in pink champagne

1970s, guy bourdin, Hair and make-up, Inspirational Images, Make-up, Marcel Fenez, Vogue

Now look for evening, mood glamorous, and the colour to watch is rose. Make-up by Heidi Morawetz with Max Factor Truly Fair Whipped Creme Make-up and Natural Rose Face Powder (blended down the neck for an even skin tone); Frosted Dusky Rose Brush-On Blusher on eyelids (with Pink Pearl Shadow Creme along inner corners) and down the cheekbones; Brownish-Black Comb-On Mascara and the dazzle of new Poppy Frost Whipped Creme Lipstick. Hair curled and waved by Guillaume of Mod’s Hair, Paris. Cigar brown dress, in Hurel jersey, Roland Klein at Marcel Fenez, about £42, from Harrods; sizes, colours, other shops, see Stockists. Champagne: Moet et Chandon Dry Imperial Rose, Vintage 1966.

Photographed by Guy Bourdin.

Scanned from Vogue, September 15th 1973.

Perfection and Delia

1970s, guy bourdin, hair, Hair and make-up, Inspirational Images, Make-up, pablo and delia, Vintage Editorials, Vogue, yves saint laurent

Pablo and Delicious — heightened Ophelia eyes and lips, veils of colours • • • The Face by Gala: Honey Beige Barely There foundation with Swiss Candy Cream Blusher and Honey Beige Sheer Finish Compressed Powder. Eyes, new Pebble Grey Eye Pen and Matte Shadow, with Brownish Black Liquilash Mascara. New Riviera Red Supersmooth Lip Pen for a sharp edge. Peach silk chiffon dress, see again overleaf; sparkled palest peach organza mantilla girdled with embroidered silk lace : Pura, to order, at Fortnum & Mason.

Perfection and Delia — silks for clowns and angels … Something rare in a classic world — droll, beautiful follies by Pablo & Delia, who never make anything that bores them, and dress all the clowns and angels in London. Madly beautiful new year silks and the faces you’ll wear with them.

Pablo and Delia and Guy Bourdin – the most heavenly of combinations.

Hair by Valentin at Jacques Dessanges. Make-up by Heidi Morawetz.

Photographed by Guy Bourdin.

Scanned from Vogue, 1st April 1974.