Backstage at Valentino by Schohaja, Haute Couture Spring 2013
Back when Vogue was cool…
Salvador Dali’s April 1944 Vogue cover is beyond surreal. (See what we did there?)
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Postcard by Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, from Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
Happy Friday!
Andy Warhol’s screen-printed Martha Grahams vs. March Jacobs Spring 2013.
Hilda Jesser: Fashion Illustration from Das Leben einer Dame
When I send my more fashion-savvy friends cards (yes, via snail mail) I usually go for something Wiener Werkstätte-related, like this illustration by Hilda Jesser.
A model poses outside Brasilia’s Ministry of Justice for Glamour magazine
I created a slideshow of iconic buildings used in fashion shoots for Architizer. Check it out here!
I loved Carolina Herrera’s pre-fall collection, filled with irresistible, youthful party frocks. The celestial midnight gowns, printed with zodiac signs, were my favorites — largely because they reminded me of Gustav Klimt’s heavenly portrait of designer Emilie Floge. (You can see more of her portraits here.)
I did one of my fashion/art mashups for the website Architizer, but using buildings instead of paintings. Check it out!
From top: Ponti’s Taranto Cathedral, 1970 © G. Ponti archives/S. Licitra; two looks from the Givenchy’s pre-fall 2013 collection; a Gio Ponti rug (image via arkpad) flanked by two of Givenchy’s patchwork dresses; Givenchy’s sleek slate silhouettes recalled Ponti’s famous Pirelli Tower, 1958 (image via gioponti.com)
Apparently, Jamie Foxx’s ruffled powder blue suit in Django Unchained was inspired by Thomas Gainsborough’s 1770 painting Blue Boy. (Of course!) The film’s costume designer, Sharen Davis, talks about that and much more in this delightful Vanity Fair interview.
