Taking a Lesson From Old Hollywood.

That's what these street style STARS (and, I do mean stars), did to great success! You can view the others at Refinery29



Lucille Ball:

**NOTE** I couldn't believe it when I saw this! Its nice to see Lucy being included as one of the brightest stars of Hollywood past. That's rare. Props for that, guys!




Grace Kelly:


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Ulrika Sandstrom.

Ulrika Sandstrom's s/s 2009 collection takes its inspiration from the film The Science of Sleep . I find myself swooning over the above slacks which I shall never have in my possession because I make less than $30,000 a year which comes out to a depressing TOO EXPENSIVE & HIGH CLASS FOR ME.
Perhaps I'll be able to find a cheaper cousin, yes?

Coincidentally, pants of this nature always make me smile because they hearken back to a certain Katharine Hepburn woman for me:





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Picture Post: Vintage Vixens & Pretty Places.

Hi loves! I'm very busy as of late so, I'm sorry for the lack of interesting tidbits around these parts. I'm currently helping my best friend get through some tough times. However, I've been collecting some amazing imagery that has tickled my fancy & I wanted to share the beauty with you.
Enjoy.






Oh, how I adore this sparrow of France..








Grace Kelly, of course.


Kitty Carlisle of To Tell the Truth panel fame with husband playwright and director, Moss Hart .







Images collected from FABULON , If Charlie Parker... L O L I T A , Art Deco , and other places I can't recall.

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Avedon.

50s elegance.
via Fabulon

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Stockholm Sweetheart.

Looking at this charming lady brings to mind fairy princesses and cotton candy.
I also have an insatiable urge to pinch her cheeks!
And the collar of that coat is just DARLING!

What looks on the street or in the fashion world are calling your name these days?
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Bruno Dayan.

Bruno Dayan is a new photographer that I was lucky enough to discover through the incomporable Gala .

Aren't these photos scrumptious?

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Norman Parkinson-Works 1930s-1960s.

The above photograph is included in this astounding set.
Absolute vintage eye candy!

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mmm, LUELLA.

I was looking through Luella's show on style.com thanks to Krisatomic , and I am now smitten with this entire look:

But, I would kill just for the fantastic necklace!


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Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, Revisited.

This year, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, Warner Brothers and Swarovski Crystal have teamed up with some of the most popular fashion designers of today and asked them to create an interpertation of the iconic heel tappers that is all their own.

I adore these, by Oscar De La Renta:


If you are interested, here are the rest.

I absolutely love this film because it brings back so many childhood memories. It was a big occassion for my mother, sister, little brother and I when it would make its yearly Christmas television appearance.
Here's a secret, to this day, the Wicked Witch of the West freaks me the heck out and I make someone else watch this with me for that reason.. I'm 21, yes.
SHUT. UP.

Of course, almost everyone has fond memories that are attatched to this classic. Is there anyone out there that actually does not care for this movie at all?
One of my best friends, who is blogless, cannot stand it and finds it frightening? WTF? My brother-in-law used to say it was too "devilish". I've always found that to be a thing of uproarious hilarity. So anyway, come on, do you NOT LIKE The Wizard of Oz? You can tell me, to each his own.

via .

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John Rawlings Photography.

These are divine:







Mr. Rawlings is the author of many of my favorite photographic images of this era.
Alongside the likes of Cecil Beaton.

Who is your favorite photographer? What is their subjext area? What is it about their work that draws you to them?

First photo via
All others louie_gee_gee
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OMG SHOES!!

OK, that title is SO early 2007..sorry.
However, I do, indeed, like these babies:


by Nicholas Kirkwood.
found via Fabulon .
Ohhh, pearls!
Loverly.


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I'm so excited!

to have a little piece of Old Hollywood glamour!
Yesterday I ordered the Grace Kelly Wool Coat:

$102.99 at Mod Cloth

Now I need the Norma Jeane Winter Dress:


Which I shall have once I pay off my credit card.


So, what are some of YOUR fall/winter wardrobe must haves dears?


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Miu Miu Campaigns.

I'm really loving all three of these Miu Miu shoots.
Check all of them out here.

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LOVES IT.

This photo spread frome Vogue Italia for September, 2008.
Photographed by Steven Meisel, whose work I really tend to gravitate toward.

The model completely harkens back to Carole Lombard in my mind.



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Vintage Vogue!

If I'm not mistaken, the first one is from August, 1952:


Second from November, 194?:


I love them not only for the impeccable clothing but, the fonts alone, especially on the first one, are terribly charming, don't you think?

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Favorite Photographs, ver. 1.1.

Instead of my posting a photo here, a photo there in individual posts, I have decided to collect my favorites throughout the week and the compile a giant post every sunday.

Here's the first installment.


Unknown Photographer


Gucci Campaign, Craig McDean, Photographer


Unknown Photographer


The late Ruslana Korshunova, W Nov. 2004, Mario Sorrenti


Beau Grealy, Photographer


Eugenio Recuenco, Photographer


Heidi Mount, Marie Claire Italy, Rosso, Oct. 2006, David Bellemere, Photographer


Ira Bordo, Photographer

What one[s] is/are your favorite[s]?

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Beauty in the face of hardship.

Jennine, of The Coveted, recently posted this about an exhibit currently being shown at the City Hall library in Paris, which she recently viewed on a trip. The photographs included are shot in color film which, in and of itself is a rarity for the era.

Shot by André Zucca for a Nazi propoganda writing entitled The Signal.

Jennine gives her thoughts on how a lot of women today are living in much the same detatched state as is shown in this photo essay of Parisian ladies in 1940s wartime.

A short post but, it does force me to reflect on how I, too, have seperated myself from today's reality and how it is time for me to do anything within my power to change the state of affairs in my country even by the simple act of voting against the current administration and anyone who wishes to continue on with a simiar agenda.

I, for one, am eager for us, as a country, to battle our way back into the light of economical prosperity, justice, and charity toward our fellow human beings.

I'm ready for change.

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Serving her country the best way she knows how.

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Photography by Eugenio Recuenco

Lovely, isn't she?

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Reminds one of Hitchcock.

LOVE These from Jacques Olivar :
Uno.


Dos.

Tres.
via Fashiontainment

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Coco Rocha.

Admittedly, I don't pay a lot of attention to the current fashion scene. I don't have a favorite model. I don't idolize these women; they all have a very similar, basic, model "look"... mostly one of voracious hunger..

BUT.

I am somehow drawn to the ethereal asthetic of one Coco Rocha .

I'm really very impressed with this shot for Vogue Korea.
I love the fact that makeup is not plastered onto her face like icing and they are allowing natural beauty to do most of the work for her that is, except for some sort of Photoshop I'm sure but, I digress.

I'll be keeping my eye on this gal.

So, do you have a favorite model?


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