“Is it so shameless”, she murmered, “to be so sure of something so expensive?”
Detail from Audemar Piguet watch advert.
Photographed by Rolph Gobits (originally from the same shoot as one featured in the Big Biba newspaper in 1973. Thanks to Sweet Jane for confirming this).
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Harpers and Queen, December 1978
Oh I do love a bit of photomontage, and this Steiner hair advert is just glorious. It was certainly a favourite technique of James Wedge, but I’m not sure they’re quite his style – they’re rather more straightforward and less painted. Although that’s not to denigrate them; I love the simplicity of the layout, which belies how entirely fiendish it was to make pictures like this. We take such effects for granted in the age of photoshop, but these would have been incredibly time-consuming…
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Cosmopolitan, October 1973
David Fielden: downstairs at Antiquarius, 135 King’s Road, 01 352 4739
Photographed by Michael Costiff. Make-up by Richard Sharah.
Scanned from Ritz, Number 15 1978
Photographed by Uwe Ommer at Burnham Beeches, June 1980.
Scanned from Harpers and Queen, September 1980
Detail from an advert for Bal a Versailles by Jean Desprez, Paris – at the hall of mirrors, Versailles
Photographed by Sarah Moon.
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Harpers and Queen, December 78
The straight and narrow path is open to any girl at Dorothy Perkins with straight skirts, waisted dresses and a full complement of knitwear, silky blouses and slightly shaped jackets.
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Cosmopolitan, October 1979
Uncredited but it looks like an Antonio to me. Scanned from Harpers and Queen, November 1979.
Clothes of the future by Antony Price at Plaza. Photographs by Neil Kirk.
Hair by Trevor Sorbie. Jewellery designed by Valerie Robertson.
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Cosmopolitan, October 1979.
Janet Reger camiknicker advert. Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Harpers and Queen, November 1978
So today, I went to pick up an enormous job lot of magazines I bought on eBay. It’s a very mixed bag, but included some early Cosmopolitans (which always get me rather excitable…). Flicking through a few tonight, what should fall out of the October 1972 copy, but bloody junk advertising. Pah! Typical! But, wait, Seventies junk advertising is no ordinary advertising. It was the specially made Smirnoff guide to seduction (Complete and unabridged!) – “Elements of all the best seductions as discovered by Cosmopolitan for Smirnoff” with six top models who “reveal their personal approaches to the art“. Isn’t it glorious? Best of all, this is the kind of ephemera which falls out of a magazine and we just throw away, but somehow this survived…
Photographer and garments uncredited. Scanned by Miss Peelpants. Believed to date from October 1972.
Greta Norris
Paulene Stone
Alexandra Bastedo (in Biba, I think)
Mercedes
Ann Turkel
Randall Lawrence
Liz Eggleston 