Perhaps making a comment on her willingness to sacrifice herself in the name of fashion, costume collector and heiress Daphne Guinness accessorized with a neck coil much like the brass wires worn by the Padaung women along the Thai and Burmese border. The origins of this body modification practice are unknown and ...
Continue Reading...In a 1960 September Issue of Life Magazine, Milton Greene photographed designer Norman Norell proudly standing amongst his muses: models dressed in his signature sequined sheath gowns along with the Marchesa Luisa Casati, portrayed in Kees van Dongen’s 1921 painting, “The Quai, Venice.” Norell owned the portait of ...
Continue Reading...Under the direction of Diana Vreeland at Vogue, German photographer Horst P. Horst began photographing high society within their living spaces throughout the 60s. Horst photographed fashion designer, writer and International Best Dressed Hall of Famer, Pauline de Rothschild, peeking into her whimsical Parisan bedroom on ...
Continue Reading...Housed at the FIDM Museum, Alexander McQueen’s Peacock Dress exemplifies the designer’s ability to incorporate historic symbolism and reference past modes of dress to create a final garment that is cutting edge and culturally relevant to our contemporary eyes. The Peacock Dress belonged to McQueen’s FW 2008 ...
Continue Reading...Known for his daring, high shock value aesthetic, Guy Bourdin would often photograph scantily dressed models in provocative poses and environments. Terry Richardson undoubtedly looked to Bourdin for inspiration with a strategically placed fragrance bottle in the 2007 fragrance campaign for Tom Ford. Guy Bourdin, C. 1970 ...
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