Boomer Girl stories (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Fashion designer Lisa Perry may have been voted "Best Dressed" back in the late 1970s at suburban Chicago's Deerfield High (wearing purple bellbottoms with suspenders in the yearbook picture), but she didn't find her own style until she walked into the Andre Courreges store in Paris 10 years ago.
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Word has it the Paris fashion mecca known as Colette, which feted its 10th anniversary last year, is in store for a summer facelift. But fans fearing withdrawal symptoms need not worry.
Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Sean Connery showing off for Ursula Andress, on the set of "Dr. No". Found in Dr. X's Free Associations . Click image for 509 x 700 size. Salut Les Copains magazine, singer Françoise Hardy on the cover, 1966. Click image for 447 x 600 size. Brigitte Bardot. Found in Musselsoppans Vänner . Click image for 512 x 768 size. The following are some pages I scanned from Harriet Worsley's book "Decades of...
Shoe Blog (Free subscription) | 12/29/2007
…and now we return to our regularly scheduled broadcast of the Friday Shoe History Corner. With the flurry of the holidays upon us, there were a few weeks where we neglected writing a shoe history post. To make up for it, we found these interesting 1960’s plastic shoes, both of which are from the Metropolitan [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Long before the Space Age became a reality, writers, designers and film-makers were imagining a fantastic future where the machine reigned supreme and aliens roamed the galaxy. Now, the V&A Museum of Childhood is showing how space exploration influenced popular culture."Particularly back in the Sixties, when the space age was new and shiny, it really did insert itself in popular culture," says Dr Chris...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/15/2007
When Vogue Italia launched in 1966, it was one of the first magazines in Italy, and indeed the world, to break out of a commercial straitjacket and turn fashion journalism into an art form.
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 07/03/2007
Claude Pompidou, the former First Lady of France and a regular at the couture shows, died Tuesday at her home in Paris.
