Posted in American, Art, Auto, British, Icons, history, motorcycle, sports, tagged 1930S, 1950s, automobile, Bonneville Salt flats, land speed record, motorcycle, photolithographs, Roland Free, speed, speed record, Utah, world record on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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Original caption, ca. 1951, Utah, USA — On the Measured 13 Mile Straight-a-way Course, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Roland R. Free, Making a New American Motor-Cycle Record. Roland R. Free, of Los Angeles, Calif., riding a British-Vincent Motor-Cycle in a prone position to cut down wind resistance approximately 2 miles, on Sept. 11, 1950, established [...]
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Posted in Art, British, Icons, fashion, history, motorcycle, pop culture, style, vintage, tagged 1970s, 1971, Anita Pallenberg, Biance Jagger, counterculture, Dominique Tarle, Exile on Main Street, France, history, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, music, retro, rock and roll, The Rolling Stones, Villa Nellcote, vintage on August 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »
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“I’ve never had a problem with drugs… I had problems with the police.”
–Keith Richards
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Posted in American, Apparel Arts, Art, British, Icons, apparel, design, fashion, history, style, vintage, tagged 1930S, artist, Esquire magazine, illustration, Laurence Fellows, menswear, vintage on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.”
–Geoffrey Beene
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One of our pet peeves has always been the type of fashion copy that endeavoured to implant the sweet notion that “dressing the part” would put you over to tumultuous applause, regardless of your natural qualifications. [...]
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Posted in Art, Icons, LIFE archive, architecture, books, design, designers, fashion, furniture, history, style, vintage, tagged architecture, Art, bowtie, design, glasses on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”
–Le Corbusier
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“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”
–Le Corbusier
“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”
–Le Corbusier
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is [...]
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Posted in American, Art, British, Icons, LIFE archive, designers, fashion, films, history, style, vintage, tagged Costume, design, fashion, photography on April 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary” –Cecil Beaton
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Posted in American, Art, Preppy, apparel, fashion, history, vintage, tagged Art, design, fashion, menswear on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our little friend has a better wardrobe than most people I know–
and they’re in the business.
Go ahead– throw on that Duffle coat and plaid cap, buddy.
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Emotional as well as economic changes often create the need for a change in fashion, and the textile world must be ready with the cloth.
The overcoat styles which are classified within the industry today as staples had their origin in circumstances which vary in many respects but have the common bond of functional need. Demonstrating [...]
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Posted in American, Art, Icons, Preppy, books, fashion, history, tagged 1960s, 1970s, classic, Palm Beach, photograph, photographer, Slim Aarons, vintage on February 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“So this fellow gave you the look?” –
–”At his age it was more of a blink.”
W. Clifford Klenk and his wife, Hope, in a photograph by Slim Aarons –from the book “A Privileged Life.”
April 1968: Mr and Mrs Donald Lease with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside their home in Palm Beach, Florida. [...]
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Posted in Apparel Arts, Art, Icons, fashion, history, vintage, tagged 1930S, Apparel Arts, GQ, Illustrations, illustrators, Lawrence Fellows, menswear on February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Laurence Fellows (1885-1964)
An iconic illustrator and advertising artist, born in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Fellows attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and continued his studies in England and France. His work appeared in Judge, Life, Vanity Fair, Apparel Arts, and Esquire. At the start of the century he lived and worked in Philadelphia. One of the true [...]
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