'Carnival' shoes advert from the Co-op. Scanned from Vogue, April 1972.
I will definitely be attempting to recreate that make-up at some point in the future, how incredible!
Nova, February 1972
One of my favourite images from a Vargas-inspired spread in Nova, photographed by Hans Feurer. I will scan the others in time, but they all deserve solo appreciation. I think I would actually give my firstborn for those Chelsea Cobbler shoes. Red leather AND stars? Fetch my smelling salts!
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again, there is something about the Seventies take on Forties style (and particularly pin-ups) which I find infinitely more appealing than the originals or the tired current trend for such things.
It takes all the glamour and sauce, but gives it that subversive, pop art-esque treatment so typical of designers like Tommy Roberts, Terry de Havilland and Rae Spencer-Cullen for Miss Mouse (amongst so many other Vintage-a-Peel favourites). The models look quirky, confident and very knowing; I never get a sense of exploitation or submission. Even the tagline ‘exploitation can be fun’ is perfectly pitched and mocking both the exploiters and the prudes. Viva la Seventies!
Photograph by Robert Cohen for AGIP
Another brilliant photograph from my strange, small archive of press photos. The description is in French, but I believe that artist Bernard Turin was so inspired by the winner of a beauty contest (Mademoiselle Prêt à Porter), Sin Wood, that he decided to create an ‘audacious and ingenious’ dress for her to wear. With a transparent circle showing her navel, a long fringed skirt and a transparent back.
She is shown modelling it on L’esplanade du Trocadero à Paris, 9th October 1970.
Scanned by Miss Peelpants.
From the same spread in Cosmopolitan as the Gabrielle Drake post, and eagle-eyed readers might recall that we have seen Ika Hindley before… There are still a few beauties to come, but I decided they were all worthy of their own post.
The spread was styled by Deirdre McSharry and she is really speaking my sartorial language. Dress by Annacat, shoes by Chelsea Cobbler and hat by Sarah Frearson. Make-up is by Pierre LaRoche (Bowie’s make-up artist and also for the Rocky Horror Picture Show) for Helena Rubenstein.
Cosmopolitan, June 1973. Photographed by David Montgomery. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.
“She arrived in the studio like an early Garbo, plain and drab. One hour and much make-up later she is fashion’s own superstar”.
Ouch.
Photos by Patrick Hunt. Vogue, April 1972.
Just shoehorning some shoe porn in…
Featuring the great Terry de Havilland, Charles Jourdan, Walter Steiger, Rayne and Biba.
Hauntingly beautiful. I can never, ever resist a photoshoot inspired by clowns. (Indeed, Mr Wedge seems to have made them something of a trademark!) That make-up, that neck ruff…
Scanned from Painted Ladies: Art of Hand Colouring in Photography by James Wedge.
Photographed by Barry Lategan. Vogue, April 1969.
Drawings of early matte jersey dresses from Harpers Bazaar, 1970. Drawings by Mouchy.
Scanned from Jean Muir (exhibition book from 1980) by Leeds Art Galleries.
Christiana Steichen in Tuttabankem tweed jodhpurs, Clifford Street, London 1972.
From Norman Parkinson: Lifework. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.
‘Inca Metrics’. Dolores near Cuzco, Peru, 1965. Photograph by Norman Parkinson, scanned from Norman Parkinson: Lifework.
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