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FASHION & STYLE
His clothes, said Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, “were fierce, with a power that was both militaristic and highly eroticized.” She added: “It was not the American power look of the shoulder-padded executive. His was a different kind of working woman.”
Designer: Claude Montana (French, Paris 1947 - 2024 Paris)
Article: Green, Penelope. “Claude Montana, Fashion Designer Whose Look Defined the ’80s, Dies at 76.”
Source: nytimes.com
Title: [ An evening ensemble modeled by Pay Cleveland made of silk chiffon and ostrich feathers by Italian designer Valentino Garavani, 1974-75 ]
Photograph by: Johnson Publishing Corporation LLC
Medium: Print
Classification: Photograph
Article: Salmi, Nicolette. “No One Walks the Walk Like Pat Cleveland.”
Source: lofficielusa.com
Title: [ Lee Radziwill, 1967 ]
Photograph by: Dennis Oulds / Getty Images
Medium: Print
Classification: Photography
Description: Princess Lee Radziwill (Lee Bouvier) sister of Jacqueline Kennedy in London's Savoy Hotel. She is in England to play the title role in a TV film, 'Laura' produced by David Susskind.
Source: Getty Images
Title: [ Nancy “Slim” Keith, circa 1940s ]
Medium: Print
Classification: Photography
Source: Unknown
Title: Babe Paley and William Paley outside of La Cote Basque, 1965
Credit: Fairchild Archive
Medium: Print
Classification: Photograph
Article: Prisant, Carol. “The Secret World of Babe Paley.”
Source: Town & Country
Title: CZ Guest (1920-2003). Née Lucille Douglas Cochrane. American socialite, columnist and fashion designer. Photographed in 1937 wearing a Mainbocher dress.
Credit: Granger
Medium: Print
Classification: Photograph
Source: Granger Historical Picture Archive
Title: Grace Kelly, left, showing off her trousseau to her mother, Margaret Kelly, 1956
Medium: Print
Classification: Photograph
Credit: Image Courtesy of Everett Collection
Source: Everett Collection
Fendi
Women’s Spring/Summer 2024 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Designed by Kim Jones
Title: Wilhelmina Cooper, 1962
Artist: Rico Puhlmann (German, Berlin 1934-1996 East Moriches)
Medium: Print
Classification: Photograph
Publication: Wilson, Eric. Wilhelmina: Defining Beauty. Rizzoli, 2017.
Article: Els, Rozanne. “From Patti Hansen to Nicki Minaj: 50 Years of Models Who Created Fantasy.”
Source: thecut.com
Title: [ Supremacist series, October, 1989 ]
Artist: Serge Lutens (French, born 1942)
Medium: Print
Classification: Photograph
Title: Girls In The Windows, 1960
Artist: Ormond Gigli (American, New York 1925-2019 West Stockbridge)
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Classification: Photograph
Description: “ ‘Girls in the Windows’, 1960 is an image not only about beauty, fashion and the ingenious orchestration of 43 women standing at the windows and on the sidewalk, some daringly climbing onto the window sills. It is also a slice of time in history, as it captures a row of three classic New York Brownstones, which were demolished the day after the shoot. Gigli, who lives across the street, wanted to immortalize the buildings and this envisioned the photograph. His meticulous planning and direction resulted in a dramatically compelling and memorable artwork.
The richness of the photograph stems from the ability to appreciate it in different ways: either as a whole, as a rhythmic composition of color and form, formed by the pattern of windows, human figures and colorful dresses; or the viewer is drawn to explore it various parts, each woman presenting a different point of interesting story (Gigli’s wife if on the second floor, far right and the demolition supervisor’s wife is on the third floor, third from left). It has since been the inspiration to many recreations by other image makers.”
Source: ormondgigli.com
Article: Segal, David. “Is This the World’s Highest-Grossing Photograph? “
Source: nytimes.com
Title: Charles James Gowns, New York, 1948
Artist: Cecil Beaton (British, London 1904–1980 Broadchalke)
Date: June 1, 1948
Medium: C-Print
Classification: Photograph
Publication: Vogue/Condé Nast Archive
Description:
Nine models, including Marilyn Ambrose, Dorry Adkins, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Andrea Johnson, Lily Carlson, and Dorian Leigh, wearing Charles James gowns. Posed in French & Company's eighteenth century French paneled room.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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