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Madame Yevonde: Society Women as Goddesses
Be original or die. There are worse lines to live by, but this was the credo of surreal, creative photographer Madame Yevonde. These photos are from her ‘Goddesses‘ series. Lady Anne Rhys as Flora...
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The Reading List – Lillian Bassman: Lingerie
Lillian Bassman summed up herself and her work as “completely tied-up with softness, fragility and the personal problems of a feminine world”. In this retrospective work of her seminal lingerie work,...
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Underwater Love
You could easily be fooled into thinking that photography from a certain decade will always look the same – rough and ready Utility women in the 1940′s, elegant, poised women in the 1950′s. We’ll...
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Backstage at Balmain, 1954
Photos of Balmain backstage by Mark Shaw (source: via Miss Moss). Filed under: Fashion, Photography Tagged: backstage, balmain, Fashion, mark shaw, Paris, Photography, vintage, vintage photography,...
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The Reading List: Seven Sisters Style
Well, I read Rebecca Tuite’s new book on the female variant of prep, Seven Sisters Style, and it is just delightful. Really and truly delightful. I’ve written more on the subject for today’s Irish...
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Bathing Beauties
Photos by Peter Stackpole, April 1959Filed under: Inspiration, Photography Tagged: Fashion, life, Magazines, peter stackpole, Photography, style, swim meet, Swimsuits, swimwear, vintage, vintage style
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