Miss Fisher’s Finest 1920s Fashion.
In the ABC TV series “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” costume designer Marion Boyce shares her favourite new looks for the stylish lady detective. Based on Kerry Greenwood’s bestselling novels and set...
View Article“3D Spider Dress” by Anouk Wipprecht.
by Shawn Saleme. 3D printing is being explored in many different ways, and Dutch artist Anouk Wipprecht isn’t afraid to use the technology to push the limits of fashion. Her latest creation is the...
View ArticleDressing Up for the Telephone, circa 1900s.
How to Dress When Using Your Telephone, ca. 1900s. These beautiful vintage black and white photograph show young women posed using telephones in the early 20th century. See more Images via vintage...
View ArticleEdwardian Women and their Very Big Hats.
Looking at the favourite Fashion Style of Women From the early Years of the 20th Century one feels that women from the Edwardian era favoured very weighty looking-fashion styles, from big gowns to...
View ArticleCelebrities by Cecil Beaton.
Photo: Marilyn Monroe. Sir Cecil Beaton was a favorite photographer of celebrities and aristocrats. Katherine Hepburn. H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Andrew. His famous subjects included...
View ArticleWoman and Child on corner, Havana at Dusk, Cuba.
Havana at dusk by Alice Hawkins. Cuba is a fairytale place. I like that you can just stay in people’s houses or wander into someone’s home and eat with a family. My last trip there was for a fashion...
View ArticlePopular Hair Fashions for Women of the 1930s.
Short Curly Hair – The Popular Fashion Hairstyle of Girls in the 1930s. In the beginning of the 1930s, women powerfully abandoned the traditional feminine image, instead there appeared a picture of...
View ArticleVintage Images of Women by Newton.
Vintage Newton, a pop-up exhibition of Helmut Newton prints from 1974-1984, feature Charlotte Rampling and Elsa Peretti, were produced from a series of transparencies that he considered his most...
View Article60 year old Male Fashion Model.
I studied law but never practiced and instead worked in the movie business and advertising. Due to personal reasons I started a new job in April 2015. For the fun of it I decided to grow my beard...
View ArticleThe Roaring Twenties and the Flapper Dress.
The 1920’s were most popular for the Flapper dress which is easily associated with the “Roaring Twenties”. The Flapper dress had a drop waist, which gave women a more boyish figure which was popular...
View ArticleThe Beautiful and Charismatic Lilli Langtry, famous English Actress.
Lillie Langtry was beautiful, smart, had wit and passion all in one mesmerizing package. Langtry was a stage actress persuaded to go into the acting business by famed writer and poet Oscar Wilde. As...
View ArticleVintage Portraits of Beauty circa 1930s.
National types of beauty was a series of real photo cigarette cards distributed in the 1930s. Some of the women portrayed were well-known actresses in their country, such as Anna May Wong from China,...
View Article“Fashion by Edward Steichen.”
English stage actress Mary Taylor, 1933 As chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, Edward Steichen profoundly shaped the look of celebrity and fashion photography in the 1920s and 1930s. Chanel...
View ArticleFashion photography by Vogue.
Gloria Swanson, 1924. All photographs courtesy of Lumas Gallery. Photograph: Edward Steichen/VOGUE Archive Collection From Gloria Swanson to Kate Moss, desert starkness to urban grit, a new exhibition...
View Article‘Big Hair’ Hits Munich in 1964.
The prize-winning coiffures in a contest in Munich, Germany on 1 May, 1964. They were designed for evening wear and hairdressers at the time said that anyone with a little time could copy them. Image...
View ArticleFlappers of the 1920s.
In the early 1920s, things changed rapidly, the 19th Amendment passed in 1920 giving women the right to vote. Women began attending college. The Equal Rights Amendment was proposed by Alice Paul in...
View ArticleFrom Flappers to Grunge, 1920s -1940s.
A recent piece calls for the death of the hipster, who’s about to be dethroned by a less cool cousin, the yuccie (young urban creatives). But we call it a bluff. In the 1920s, flappers embodied the...
View ArticleWomen’s Hair & Makeup from the 1920s.
Four beautiful examples of the 1920s Hair and Make-up most fashionable styles. Although popular conceptions of the Jazz Age suggest that every fashionable woman bobbed her hair during the 1920s, some...
View ArticleFashion pics of the 1950s by Norman Parkinson.
Anne Gunning outside the City Palace, Vogue, November 1956. Norman Parkinson (1913 – 1990) was a celebrated English portrait and fashion photographer. He always maintained he was a craftsman and not...
View ArticleEvening Wear – the ‘Roaring 1920s.’
Photos of Women in Evening Gowns during the 1920s. The 1920s is one of the most impressive periods for female fashion. Here is a collection of gorgeous photos of women in their evening gowns during...
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