In the past I have written about my admiration for Miss Piggy as a style icon, and it seems the rest of the fashion world is finally catching up. Next month Piggy will become the new face of MAC cosmetics, while OPI have already named several nail polishes after her. The icing on the [...]
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Doris Day Back in the Charts!
Doris Day yesterday made history by becaming the oldest ever singer to make the UK top ten with an album of new songs. The album was produced in part by her son Terry, who died in 2004, and entered the charts at number nine. Vera Lynn is still the oldest performer to top the [...]
RIP War Heroine Nancy Wake ‘The White Mouse’, 1912-2011
Nancy Wake, 1912-2011 Hello again everyone, and thank you so much for all your kind comments after my last post. After a small break from blogging, businessing, and the world in general, things are feeling much better and I’ll be back to my usual blethering this week. Thanks for bearing with me while I [...]
60s Style Icon: Elsa Martinelli, Italian Model and Actress
As I continue tidying up my numerous files of saved pictures, I keep on finding little gems. There were a few of a beautiful 60s woman called Elsa Martinelli, so I looked her up and found she was an Italian model and actress in the 50s and 60s. There wasn’t a great deal about her [...]
The Glamour of Dressing Tables
This gorgeous picture of Dita von Teese at her dressing table is from a feature in this month’s InStyle magazine (found via Swing Fashionista). I think it is a stunning photograph, and more in the 30s deco style than Dita’s usual adherence to the 50s. The 1930s were an age of extreme glamour; a time when [...]
London Vintage Events: Audrey Hepburn Film Season
Vintage Londoners might be interested to know that the BFI is currently showing a month-long season of Audrey Hepburn films. Even if you aren’t a huge Audrey fan her films almost always have the most stunning costumes from the 50s and 60s, so if you like vintage fashion it is really worth going along to see one or [...]
50s Vintage Supermodel: Suzy Parker
This post has been a long time in coming. I first came across the 50s model Suzy Parker when I was putting together the posts on Funny Face – Suzy was one of Richard Avedon’s favourite models and had several very small cameos in the film (you might recognise her in the Think Pink [...]
Literary Style Icon: Anne of Green Gables
It wasn’t hard to pick my next literary style icon. What little girl doesn’t want to be Anne of Green Gables when she grows up? I still think of my friends as kindred spirits, and deep down I want to live in a white clapboard cottage with shutters and an orchard and a lake [...]
Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face: Publicity Photos
While I was looking for film stills, I found all of these Funny Face publicity photos. The image quality is a little better, and you also get to see details of the clothing that isn’t possible with the screen caps. I haven’t put them in any kind of order, but you should recognise all of [...]
1950s Film Style: Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn
You often have to suspend your modern feminist principles in order enjoy films of the 50s. For instance, in An American in Paris, the viewer must swallow the fact that Gene Kelly chooses the inane 15 year old with buck teeth over the confident, intelligent, and elegant older woman whom he frankly treats rather rudely. And [...]
1960s polka dot mod dress by Berketex
1970s green and red tartan knit jumper dress
1960s black and white check blanket dress
1970s floral print hippy smock dress by Emanuelle
