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Serge Lutens
(born 14 March 1942, in Lille, France) Photographer, film maker, hair stylist, perfume art-director and fashion designer.
Images: Lutens' 1973 series of photographs (inspired by the artists Claude Monet, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani)
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PEGGY MOFFITT ON NOWNESS.COM
The 60s Fashion Icon Invites NOWNESS into Her Pop-Infused Los Angeles home
Still rocking her signature Vidal Sassoon five-point cut, Peggy Moffitt chats about being muse and model to designer Rudi Gernreich and her husband, photographer William Claxton, in director Phil Pinto’s new short filmed at Moffitt's colorful home in Los Angeles. Immortalized in Claxton’s 1964 photograph of her wearing Gernreich’s rule-smashing topless monokini bathing suit, Moffitt defined the look of the swinging 60s with her exaggerated dress sense, asymmetric bowl cut, and heavy, kabuki-inspired makeup. “Peggy is a true innovator, an extension of the pop art aesthetic,” says Museum of Contemporary Art Director Jeffrey Deitch. “She invented a new approach to modeling; she brought to it her background in modern dance, and her understanding of and connections to the art world.” The trio’s collaboration is celebrated in The Total Look exhibit at MOCA's Pacific Design Center, which closes this weekend. Curated by Cameron Silver and co-curated by Jhordan Dahl and Ethel Seno, the show features 55 head-to-toe ensembles by Gernreich, culled from Moffitt’s personal collection of 400 pieces, alongside Claxton’s era-epitomizing photos and his 1967 short Basic Black, starring Moffitt and widely considered to be the first fashion film.
Leaving on a jet plane...
My dear friend Elizabeth flies tonight, see you in Rio!
Images Guy Bourdin
GOETHE'S FAUST
Harry Clarke (March 17, 1889 – January 6, 1931) was an Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator. He painted 8 colour plates and more than 70 monotone and duotone images for Goethe's Faust. These images became his most famous works and prefigures the imagery of 1960's psychedelia.
BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK
80+ Bill Cunningham can be spotted cycling around new York in his blue jacket uniform. Bill is obsessed and fascinated by the beauty of clothes and shoes not who is wearing them. See this amazing documentary at the Curzon cinema, Mayfair. Starts today Thursday 22nd March - Thursday 29th March.
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EXPERIMENTAL CIRCLE CLUB
Come down to Beach, 20 Cheshire Street E2, 6pm - 9pm tonight for the Launch of the ECC Exhibition and new book. Images taken by Thomas Kavanagh at the ECC tent, Offset Festival 2010.
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THE DANCE OF SEVEN VEILS
Walking past the window of Liberty's I spotted this, unable to pop in could I fall in love with a fragrance purely by a name and an image.
It is based on the biblical tale of Salome’s dance of the Seven Veils, a story of many layers. Tainted and bejeweled, Salome turns to the art of shameless seduction. Barefooted, sanguine and black eyed, she demands a man’s head on a plate in exchange for one single dance...
Seven Veils is a spicy oriental composition built around the warmth of vanilla flower and Indian sandalwood.
Top Notes: Carrot, Pimento Berries Heart Notes: Tahitian Vanilla Flower, Laurier Rose, Glycine, Tiger Orchid Base Notes: Sandalwood, Vanilla Bean
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Shirin Neshat شیرین نشاط
Shirin Neshat (born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin, Iran) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.
Neshat's parents were upper middle-class.Her father was a well-respected physician and her mother a homemaker. Neshat has stated about her father, “He fantasized about the west, romanticized the west, and slowly rejected all of his own values; both my parents did. What happened, I think, was that their identity slowly dissolved, they exchanged it for comfort. It served their class”.
Through her father’s acceptance of Western ideologies came an acceptance of a form of western feminism. Neshat’s father encouraged each of his daughters to “be an individual, to take risks, to learn, to see the world”, and he sent his daughters as well as his sons to college to receive their higher education.
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FIVE GOLD RINGS
Rings have been given and received for over 6,000 years. With the fourth/ring finger on the left hand becoming the customary place to wear a wedding ring in much of the world.The fourth finger on the left hand is associated with an old belief that the left hand's ring finger is connected by a vein directly to the heart: the vena amoris or vein of love. This idea was known in 16th and 17th century England, when Henry Swinburne referred to it in his book about marriage. It can be traced back to ancient Rome, when Aulus Gellius cited Appianus as saying theancient Egyptians had found a fine nerve linking that particular finger to the heart.
HOLLY RUSSELL
The 24-year-old’s objective to make “intriguing and beautiful but functional clothes that have a life off the catwalk and editorials” was likely the reason she chose to do placements at both Topshop Design and Gareth Pugh during her gap year. Currently in her final months at the Royal College of Art.
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Dreaming of Summer
Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982 Southern California's pool culture is the subject of this unique and luscious collection of photographs that explore the parallel evolution of an iconic symbol and an artistic genre. Since the end of World War II, Southern California's backyard pools-those blue-green oases in an otherwise often arid landscape-have symbolized any number of American ideals: optimism, wealth, consumerism, escape, physical beauty, and the triumph of man over nature. Simultaneously, the field of photography developed as a transformative method for recording the human condition. This exhibition catalog celebrates the nexus of these two phenomena in a one-of-a-kind collection that features more than two hundred works by more than forty postwar artists and photographers. It presents works by photographers and artists including Bill Anderson, John Baldessari, Ruth Bernhard, David Hockney, Herb Ritts, Ed Ruscha, Julius Shulman, and Larry Sultan. Thematically grouped into topics ranging from the rise of celebrity culture, suburbia and dystopia, avant-garde architectural landscape design, and the cult of the body, these images offer a reich study of the cultural connotations of the swimming pool. six insightful essays provide a comprehensive overview of the development of the swimming pool and its attendant aesthetic and social culture.
Diane Vreeland (1903-1989)
Diana Vreeland was an extraordinary lady who taught me one important thing - if you have a point of view to make, make it strongly. That's how she lived her life. She used to love make-up and sometimes would go a little strong with her rogue. Once she asked my first wife, Francoise, who was a magazine editor, 'How is my make-up?' Francoise replied, 'Well, I think you may have gone a little bit too far with the blusher, Diana.' And Diana turned and said, 'I didn't ask if i went too far, I was asking if i had enough!'- Oscar De La Renta
Images Andy Warhol, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel and Diana in her living room.
THE FASHION PICTURES
Deborah Turbeville born 1938 in Boston, moved to New York aged 19, with dreams of a career in the stage. She worked as a model and assistant to Claire McCardell -the fashion designer who brought wool jersey and denim to the catwalk and went on to join Harper's Bazaar in 1963, working with fashion editor, Marvin Israel and his crew of photographers which included Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon and Hiro.
Taking her first photographs in Yugoslavia 1966, she took these blurry images to Avedon, he loved them, blurs and all and taught her technique. In 1972 she became a photographer, she took pictures for Vogue of girls in bikinis at a cement works “The most revolutionary pictures of the time” Conde Nast editorial director Alexander Liberman.
The images above are from The Bathhouse Series taken for Vogue in 1975, the work that made her name, fashion photographs of barely dressed women, wet and languid. The women in these images appear to be held there as prisoners, it has been said they look like they're in gas chambers. 'I go into a women's private world, where you never go,' Turbeville said. 'It's a moment frozen in time. I like to hear a clock ticking in my pictures.'
Her images are blurry, grainy, tormented into painterly colours, scratched, marked, sellotaped - post-production work often done with her long-term assistant and collaborator Sharon Schuster. 'I destroy the image after I've made it,' said Turbeville. 'Obliterate it a little so you never have it completely there.' It's a quite un-American world, a view through the rear window, fascinated by the beaten, worn and forgotten.
She wears black, mostly. She has reddish hair. She has homes in Mexico, New York and Russia. She teaches in Russia. She's been married at least once.
Images The Bathhouse Series 1975 American Vogue
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PLATFORM BOOTS
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
In 1990, UK fashion designer Vivienne Westwood re-introduced the high thick-heeled platform boot into the fashion world. The heels varied from five-inches to nine-inches. The Spice Girls brought them back again in the late 90's; the Spice Girls were labelled as a band with members who performed with large shoes.
Images Lady Gaga and Naomi Campbell in Vivienne Westwood and my new boots picked up on Broadway Market.
ROSES
The fragrance of rose has long inspired poets and lovers. One legend says the red rose came from the blood of the Greek love goddess Aphrodite. The name of Aphrodite’s son Eros, god of love, is an anagram for rose. Folktales that come from China to Europe tell similar stories about the rose’s symbolism as the unfolding of both spiritual and physical love and perfection.
Images Hermann Försterling
HENRY VALENTINE MILLER
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.
Images (clockwise) Shakespeare and Company bookshop Paris and Melvin Sokolsky