To Catch a Thief

A profile on George Clooney in Vanity Fair’s  November, 2006 issue likened the actor to those of Hollywood’s past, portraying Clooney as a modern day Gregory Peck, James Stewart or Cary Grant. To accompany this comparison, photographer Norman Jean Roy, who often looks to Old Hollywood for inspiration, photographed George Clooney along side

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Birds of a Feather

This peculiar scarf and muff set, housed at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, represents the fashionable use of birds in 19th-century dress, which often featured bird components of feather plumes or a bird used in its entirety as seen here. The accessory set is also thought to draw attention

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Mirror Mirror

Transgressive German photographer Helmut Newton, established a prolific body of work in his signature voyeuristic style which changed the landscape of 20th-century fashion photography. Much of his work stemmed from the New Objectivity movement born in the hedonistic Weimar Republic of the photographer’s youth. Bergström Over Paris shot in 1967 is typical

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A Man and His Muse(s)

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 the eccentric Marchesa (the same

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A Room with a View

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 rue Méchain in the June

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