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Suzy Menkes collection at Christie’s
My friend Eddy send me an email this week, with a link to the Christie’s Online Auctions : The Suzy Menkes Collection. Some spectaculair garments are for sale, specially the very sought after Ossie...
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Limi Yamamoto a.k.a. LIMI feu
(photograph by Robert Maxwell) Feu means fire, and there’s a lot of fight in Limi. Born in 1974 by the famous fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, it was not surprisingly that Limi Yamamoto chose a...
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Chanel: A Woman of her Own by Axel Madsen
(Coco Chanel by Richard Avedon) . I must have read it 4 or 5 times now, Chanel: A Woman of her Own by Axel Madsen and like to recommend it as a very...
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Edward Steichen, a Painter by training turned to Photography
February 14, 2006 a photograph of a pond taken by Edward Steichen sold for more than $2.9 million, easily setting a world record for the highest amount a photograph has sold for at auction, Sotheby’s...
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Bullfighter costumes photographed by Peter Müller
Matador César Rincón after a bullfight in Seville. This must be the sexiest picture ever taken of a bullfighter! The photograph is made by Peter Müller, who was born in Peru. He studied art and...
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Roger Vivier,called the ‘Fabergé of Footwear’ (part 1)
(Roger Vivier photographed by George Brassaï) . Biography . Roger Vivier is born in Paris, on 13 November 1907. At the age of 9 his parents die and Roger is adopted by Gérard Benoit-Vivier. In 1925...
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Roger Vivier, called the ‘Fabergé of Footwear’ (part 2)
Biography After ending the collaboration with the house of Dior, Roger Vivier opens a new boutique at 24 rue François Premier, across from maison Dior. He consults with aeronautical engineers on the...
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Brian Jones, the Embodiment of Unconventional
. My friend Eddy de Clercq is and has always been a very stylish man. During his teens he regularly went on a ferry-boat to London to buy the newest and hippest clothes. His shopping trips started at...
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Dutch Traditional Costume
I have been fascinated by traditional costume for as long as I can remember. Not only the Dutch traditional costume, but from countries all over the globe. Whenever I travel, I always try to find...
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Grunge; Marc Jacobs got fired over it & Hedi Slimane praised….
Kurt Cobain . March 04, 2013 Paris, Saint Laurent a/w 2013 by Hedi Slimane By Tim Blanks (edited version) California grunge was the inspiration for Hedi Slimane’s second women’s collection for...
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My Beautiful Vintage Christian Dior Dress Suit
I found this beautiful Christian Dior dress suit about 15 years ago in a second-hand shop (that’s how vintage shops were called at the time). The place belonged to an ex-girlfriend of my neighbour and...
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Bettina Graziani inspired all Great Couturiers
I was a success in my job as a cover girl,” she writes, “and I owe that success more to an expressive face than to my good looks.” Bettina . Biography Simone Micheline Bodin (born in France, 1925),...
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Jackie Kennedy, the Presidential Wardrobe
Jacqueline Bouvier, photographed by Horst P. Horst on the announcement of her marriage to John F. Kennedy, 1953 . Introduction The 1960′s were considered to be a time for change, and that is exactly...
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Justin de Villeneuve, a Colourful Villain, Mr. Twiggy & Iconic Photographs
Twiggy & Justin de Villeneuve . For a while now I’ve been curious about ‘what happened to Justin de Villeneuve, after he and Twiggy split up as a couple and professionally’, so it was time to find...
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Azzedine Alaïa although Famously Shy, dares to Speak his Mind
In 1988, I got invited to a party thrown by the model agency that represented Linda Spierings, a well-known model who is friends with Azzedine Alaïa. I still had my own boutique for which I’d...
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Patrick Petitjean, how Beards got back in Fashion
A friend asked me recently if I had noticed all these boys and men wearing beards lately. I laughed, because this trend isn’t just lately, it’s been going on for a few years already. But not many...
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Inspiration by National Geographic and Martina Hoogland Ivanow & Desiree Heiss
Mongolia, 1921. Ph. published in National Geographic/Fashion . In this post I’d like to share photographs I find very inspiring, like the story by Martina Hoogland Ivanow (photography) and Desiree...
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Marpessa Hennink’s Collaboration with Ferdinando Scianna and Dolce & Gabbana...
Short Biography Among the 80s and 90s top models, the Dutch model Marpessa plays a particular role, thanks to her extrovert personality and her unusual beauty If it is true that the name of a person...
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Apollonia Van Ravenstein, Model in the 70ties & 80ties and the Book written...
When school pictures were taken, Apollonia Van Ravenstein always had to stand in the back, because of her height. At 15, the owner of a pantyhose factory , situated in her hometown Geldrop...
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Charles James, the First American Couturier was an Egomaniac
Charles James - Photo Cecil Beaton, 1929 Biography Often cited as the greatest American couturier, Charles James was actually born (1906) and raised in England , but began his career as a hatmaker...
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