Vintage 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 ArticleHair Fashions for 1930s Women.
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 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 ArticleThe 60 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 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 ArticleFashion 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 ArticleHairstyling the Frankenstein Method 1923.
A woman models the latest permed hairstyle for hairdresser company Eugène Ltd in 1923. Image Credit: Photograph by the Wellcome Collection via From Frankenstein to feminism: how electricity powered...
View ArticleTrendy Women’s Street Fashion of the 1920s.
Berlin, 1928 Immortalized in movies and magazine covers, young women’s fashion of the 1920s was both a trend and social statement, a breaking-off from the rigid Victorian way of life. These young,...
View ArticleCoco Chanel at Work in Paris by Kirkland.
A new book featuring images of Coco Chanel by the photographer Douglas Kirkland provides a unique insight into the woman who transformed fashion. Sent to Paris on assignment for Look magazine in 1962,...
View ArticleLucille Ball in the 1930s.
Lucille Désirée Ball (1911-1989) was an American actress, comedienne, model, film-studio executive, and producer. She was best known as the star of the self-produced sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi...
View ArticleMasterpieces of Hair Styling.
Tilda Swinton for Dazed & Confused, May 2010: Carine Roitfeld, former editor of French Vogue, writes: ‘Sam has magic fingers, he makes hair look effortless and can make any girl feel confident,...
View Article1950s Men’s Hairstyles.
All I can say as an old Aussie who was a youngster in the 1950s is that I wish our Aussie barbers were as good as these American barbers back then. So I put I put a picture on the front of Vincent D....
View ArticleThe Beautiful and Charismatic Lilli Langtry.
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 ArticleFunky Platform Shoes – the Past.
Do you remember the ultra funky platform shoes that were all the rage in the 1970s? After their use in Ancient Greece for raising the height of important characters in the Greek theatre and their...
View ArticleThe Truth about “Ugg” Boots.
Ugg boots were first created by Australian farmers, who used sheepskin to stay warm. As the years went by, many Australian surfers also cottoned on to using them for their warmth-giving properties....
View ArticleCorsets & the Evolving Shape of Women 1900-1920s.
by Sheryl Jaeger The objective of corsets was to improve on the body type of every woman. Emphasis was on the waist. By the 1880s the corset had become an elegant and desirable object in a woman’s...
View ArticleStyle Tribes of the 1950s-1960s.
Teddy boys: With a streetwise 1950s blend of Edwardian dandyism, Saville Row fashion and styles borrowed from Hollywood westerns, teddy boys were Britain’s first identifiable youth tribe. Photograph:...
View ArticleHenley Royal Regatta Fashions from Days Past.
Oxfordshire hosts something called the Henley Royal Regatta—“one of the quintessential British events of the summer season,” according to WWD. Apparently it’s quite an occasion and has happened...
View ArticleFemale Hairstyles of the 1940s.
Women’s hairstyles and their beauty from the ever stylish 1940s with their pin-up curls and more. Curls were used to dress an area of the hair, like the opposite side to a roll, or piled up on the...
View ArticleThe 1930s – a Powerful Period for Flair.
The 1930s was the Most Powerful Period of Flair in Modern Female Fashion. The 1920s was considered subversive period of discreet female fashion, and the 1930s was a period of the most powerful flair. A...
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