Posted in American, Auto, apparel, fashion, films, history, pop culture, style, vintage, tagged 1950s, Auto, car, culture, drag, fashion, film, hot rod, racing, teen, teenage, vintage on July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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1950s hot rod culture at it’s best. Yes, there’s the prerequisite corny score and script… but more so, enjoy the glorious landscape of 1950’s fashion, pomade, and hot rod heaven.
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Posted in American, fashion, films, history, lifestyle, pop culture, style, vintage, tagged archive, beauty contestant, history, Hollywood, Los Angeles, photos, picture, UCLA, vintage on July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city”
–Dorothy Parker
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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, Icons, fashion, films, vintage, tagged fashion, Hollywood, James Coburn, legend, movie on March 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Personality. Gotta have some kind of personality and you don’t wear your personality on your body. It’s gotta come from someplace.”
–James Coburn
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Posted in British, apparel, designers, fashion, films, motorcycle, tagged apparel, Belstaff, Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt, British, classic, English, fashion, heritage, history, jacket, quality, shearling, triumph on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I knew there was a reason I loved the wardrobe so much–
Belstaff, which was founded in Longton, Staffordshire, in 1924, opened up its 85-year-old archives to West and supplied original, classic designs for Pitt-as-Button’s screen wardrobe.
When Benjamin Button is riding his vintage Indian motorcycle through Louisiana he is wearing the Belstaff ‘Panther’ jacket in dark-brown [...]
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Posted in British, Icons, apparel, films, tagged 007, apparel, Bond, British, casino, Craig, Daniel, dress, English, fashion, gadget, James, James Bond, like, live, movie, of, Quantum, Quantum of Solace, secret agent, solace, spy, travel on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bond Lifestyle provides a stylish and clear online guide to products related to the world of the most suave secret agent, Bond… James Bond. Find inspiration to improve your style, complete your 007 collection, get ideas for your James Bond theme party, or identify gadgets, cars, clothes, accessories and locations that you saw in the latest Bond [...]
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Posted in British, Icons, films, tagged actor, Alfie, best, British, classic, fashion, film, Gangster, Get Carter, great, greatest, Michael Caine, movie, music, Roy Budd, score, Sir, soundtrack on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If your knowledge of Michael Caine is limited to Dirty, Rotten, Scoundrels - then you don’t know Jack about Caine. To get a true picture of the man you need to go back, way back - 1971 to be exact.
Michael Caine played sexy, smoking, drinking, shotgun-toting, trench-coat wearing British mobster – Jack Carter, out to avenge the death of his brother. Get [...]
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