Inspirational Editorials: James Dean Rides Again
Posted: October 14, 2012 Filed under: 1970s, Boston-151, british boutique movement, charles jourdan, countdown, david montgomery, Henry Lehr, Herbert Johnson, Inspirational Images, Kansai Yamamoto, miss selfridge, mr freedom, The Westerner, vanity fair, Vintage Editorials, Wild Mustang Co., yves saint laurent 1 Comment »
Jacket by Mr Freedom. Jeans by Male for The Pant House. Shoes at St Laurent, Rive Gauche.
Jeans, reclaimed from the bobby-soxer era, are back. True-blue jeans, given the Fifties treatment, rolled up to mid calf, revealing thick white socks and canvas sneakers, or totteringi high heels, clamped to the ankle with straps. It’s back to popcorn-and-ponytails, with angora sweater and beads or floppy blouses with belts, and shirts knotted self-consciously under Marilyn Monroe bosoms. It’s all fizz and fun and bubble-gum, just like High School kids used to be before politics and pollution, wars and recessions, drugs and permissiveness overwhelmed them.
Photographed by David Montgomery at Battersea Fun Fair and inside Mr Freedom.
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Vanity Fair, July 1971
Photographed by the jukebox at Mr Freedom. Jacket by Kansai Yamamoto for Boston-151. Denim jeans from Countdown. Green and pink leather shoes by Yamamoto for Boston-151. Badges from Mr Freedom
Jacket by Henry Lehr at Miss Selfridge. Canvas boots at The Westerner. Denim jeans at The Westerner. Handkerchief at Herbert Johnson.
Blouse from Boston-151. Belt from St Laurent. Denim jeans by Wild Mustang Co. White leather shoes by Charles Jourdan.
Vintage Adverts: Saddle and what now?
Posted: April 15, 2012 Filed under: 1970s, vanity fair, Vintage Adverts 2 Comments »
Scanned from Vanity Fair, July 1971.
A perfect demonstration of why you need to think very carefully when choosing a typeface for your logo… Or maybe it’s just me and my amazing ability to mis-read things?
Inspirational Illustrations: How Self-Possessed Are You?
Posted: March 10, 2012 Filed under: 1970s, Illustrations, malcolm bird, vanity fair 1 Comment »
Illustration by Malcolm Bird. Vanity Fair, May 1970. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.
Inspirational Images: Oh, for a friendly milkman!
Posted: November 29, 2011 Filed under: Inspirational Images, jean varon, john bates, marie helvin, seventies fashion, vanity fair Leave a comment »
"How abandoned can you get?"
The Colour Craze
Posted: November 5, 2011 Filed under: biba, caroline arber, didier duval, hair, Make-up, mary quant, seventies fashion, steven hiett, vanity fair 5 Comments »
Green says Biba. Photo by Caroline Arber.
All the top beauty talent is currently colour-crazy – and we’re very much for it; it’s a fabulous enlivener of the grey winter scene. Your party look could be a variant of any of the gloriously off-beat ideas you see here – and anyone who considers green lips unnatural might dwell, briefly, on the knock-you-down naturalness of bright plum or orange ones.
Vanity Fair, December 1971
Violet says Pablo – Elizabeth Arden’s ebullient young creative director.
Rainbow hair says Michael at Crimpers. Photo by Steve Hiett.
Any colours you like says Vanity Fair, using Mary Quant’s crayons. Photo by Didier Duval.
Legendary Beauty
Posted: October 21, 2011 Filed under: alice pollock, bus stop, celia birtwell, fashion mouse, janice wainwright, john kelly, ossie clark, pre-raphaelite, quorum, seventies fashion, simon massey, vanity fair, wightwick manor 3 Comments »
By Alice Pollock at Quorum*, 19gns. The settee is covered in the original William Morris Bird Design.
There’s a marvellously romantic feeling about the Pre-Raphaelite look. It starts with your hair…soft, natural, framing your face in a ripple of tiny waves. It touches your skin…pale, delicate, un-made-up looking. It colours your clothes…crepe, chiffons and satins in rich hues. Start wearing this great, romantic look today – who knows, he might just start being very romantic to you!
Scanned from Vanity Fair, May 1970. Photographed by John Kelly at Wightwick Manor.
*This is a misattribution, the dress is actually an Ossie.
Dress by Simon Massey, £15. Photographed against a Burne Jones tapestry.
Dress by Fashion Mouse, £22. Photographed against the Kempe stained glass windows.
Dress by Bus Stop, £5. Photographed against a painting by Rossetti pupil Treffry Dunn.
Inspirational Images: Summer softened in silk and voile
Posted: May 27, 2011 Filed under: 1970s, hans feurer, Inspirational Images, just looking, stop the shop, vanity fair 8 Comments »
Dress by Just Looking
From Vanity Fair, July 1971. Photographs by Hans Feurer
Dress by Stop the Shop
Mensday: Sinful Skinfuls
Posted: May 11, 2011 Filed under: Mensday, menswear, seventies fashion, underwear, vanity fair 6 Comments »
Gone are the bad old days when all men were the same underneath – uniformly white and basically boring. As regimental and dull in their underwear habits as short back and sides. But things have changed. Men are beginning to realise what girls always knew, that what goes on underneath is just as important as what shows on the surface. And now the choice is enormous – bright stripes and jazzy prints, bikini pants and boxer shorts, slim-cut vests that could double up as leisurewear.
Scanned from Vanity Fair, October 1971. Photos by Marc Leonard.
Colour blocking, 1971 style
Posted: April 25, 2011 Filed under: Foale and Tuffin, mr freedom, seventies fashion, vanity fair 8 Comments »
So the great, the good and the not so great or good are constantly telling me/us that colour blocking is back in a big way this summer. Well, such information tends to make me either run for the hills, or stay and stick my tongue out/dig my heels in/yawn dramatically/stick my nose in the air.
However, i) I like colours, blocked or not and ii) this spread from Vanity Fair (July 1971) shows me how it *should* be done, courtesy of the likes of Foale and Tuffin and Mr Freedom, in true Glam Rock style.
Vanity Fair: Pat Cleveland and Gala Mitchell
Posted: February 4, 2011 Filed under: alice pollock, alkasura, antony price, david montgomery, gala, just looking, manolo blahnik, pat cleveland, vanity fair, zapata 5 Comments »
Dress by Antony Price from Che Guevara
I must admit that I am generally pretty ambivalent when it comes to model worship, but two of my absolute favourites are Pat Cleveland and Gala Mitchell. So imagine my delight when I found another issue of Vanity Fair from 1971 (December this time. Again, falling apart. What’s with the Vanity Fair binding?) and an entire spread with the two ladies I love? Imagine my further delight when I realise the shoot contains phenomenal clothes by Antony Price, Alice Pollock and Alcasura [sic]. It helps that it was photographed by the great David Montgomery (whose photos always seem to tickle my fancy).
Outfit by Alice Pollock. Shoes from Zapata.
Outfit by Alkasura. Shoes by The Chelsea Cobbler.
Dress by Simon Ellis from Just Looking
Dress by Martha Hill
