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Vivienne Westwood A/W 2000 feat Tracey Emin

Photo by Mat Collishaw

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The usual suspects, Art Shay

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Frederikke Sofie by Jason Lee Parry

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1920 First National Pictures Lobby Card ‘One Arabian Night’ - Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

Lobby card for the American release of an early and now rare fantasy film from the great Ernst Lubitsch. The film was released in Germany under the title SUMURUN. The film is well regarded for its costumes and sets, influenced by the Diaghelev Ballets Russes and the energetic performance of Pola Negri.

(Source: vialibri.net)

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From ‘Forbidden Fruit’ 1921.

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From ‘Forbidden Fruit’ 1921.

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Myrna Loy, 1920s

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From ‘Forbidden Fruit’ 1921 - An American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Agnes Ayers, Forrest Stanley & Clarence Burton.

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1920s Swedish Star Postcard - Pola Negri in ‘The Spanish Dancer’ 1923.

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      Vilma Banky Promotional Photographs ‘The Son of the Sheik’ 1926.

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  Walter Ruttmann & Lotte Lendesdorf ‘Das wiedergefundene Paradies’ 1925.

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1920 Lotte Reininger Animation ‘Das Geheimnis der Marquise’ - .Nivea skin cream commercial advertising film for the Julius Pinschewer agency.

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Motion Picture Magazine, 1928 - Joan Crawford.

Marie Prevost

Camilla Horn

Yola d'Avril

Estelle Taylor

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Gloria Swanson 1920s.

Pola Negri 1920s

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“At the top of the stairway of Life, ready to crown Youth if he succeeds in overcoming all obstacles, stands the goddess of Success.” That is the thought conveyed in this imaginative set in the allegorical prologue of “The Man Life Passed By,” an all-star Metro special, written by Victor Schertzinger and Winifred Dunn. Schertzinger directed. 

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Lillian Rich as Flora Lee Peake in Cecil B. DeMille’s silent drama ‘The Golden Bed’ in 1925.

(The film evokes all the lavish images associated with opulent mid-twenties Hollywood productions, Eventually, the wages of sin and vanity catch up with Flora and destroy her.)