B(elle) de Jour
Originally an homage to a Brigitte Bardot photo by Ghislain Dussart, Herb Ritts’s 1994 photograph of a scantly clad Elle Macpherson at age 30 was recreated just one year shy of the model’s 50th birthday for Harper’s Bazaar Australia August, 2013. A reaction to the media’s search for nude photograph’s of
Out the Window
Hitchcock’s sartorial focus, in addition to the beautiful Hitchcock blondes cast as leading ladies, make his films an obvious source for fashion inspiration. In 2008, Vanity Fair dedicated their March issue to the director, paying homage to several of his films. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy, 11 scenes from Hitchcock classics
Selfie-Made
A precursor to the selfie, Franco Rubartelli’s self portrait of himself then girlfriend Veruschka was an outtake from a series that ran in the January 15, 1968, Vogue. In the photo, the photographer/model couple sits in the grass, gazing at their reflections in the mirror as Rubartelli snaps a photo. For Vogue Latin
Chiquita Banana
Although Portuguese by birth, Carmen Miranda would relocate to Rio de Janeiro at a young age and become Brazil’s first internationally known star reaching icon-status. Immortalized by the Chiquita Banana character of which she inspired, Carmen Miranda’s exoticism and fiery personality would set her apart from the film noir starlets
Life Cycle
The year after London’s Daily Express would anoint her “The Face of ’66,” Twiggy would grace four covers of American Vogue and land one British Vogue cover in her native England. That same year, she shot an editorial for British Vogue in 1967 with photographer Ronald Traeger–whose premature death came just a year later–for the editorial “Shorts Supply.”