No Rebellion Here | Vintage Triumph Ads

 

 

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

 

–Thomas Paine

 

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1966 Triumph motorcycle ad

 

 

Vintage Triumph motorcycle ad

 

 

Vintage Triumph motorcycle ad

 

 

Vintage 1977 Triumph Bonneville motorcycle ad

 

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Le Corbusier | The Father of “International Style” Design

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“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”
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–Le Corbusier

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Architect Le Corbusier sitting in chair & holding book in hands-- Paris France 1965.

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“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

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–Le Corbusier

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Architect Le Corbusier working on project for French ministry of reconstruction in his Paris atelier-- Paris, France 1965.

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“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”

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–Le Corbusier

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Architect Le Corbusier sitting in chair with book in hands, glasses perched on his forehead-- Paris, France 1965.

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“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”

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–Le Corbusier

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Swiss architect Le Corbusier leaning down to write w. his glasses pushed back on his forehead-- Venice, Italy 1952.

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“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”

–Le Corbusier

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Cecil Beaton | Fashion Slave from the Cradle to the Grave

 

“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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Cecil Beaton drinking while wearing his fourth costume of the evening, as host of his garden party. --circa 1948

 

 

Cecil Beaton-- his vanity knew no bounds.

 

 

 

 

Photographer Cecil Beaton adjusting the lens on a primitive camera in his studio, U.K. --circa 1929.

 

Cecil Beaton-- put that in your pike a smoke it.

 

Photographer Cecil Beaton escorting Francis Doble (Lady Lindsey Hogg) to the wedding of Lord Herbert Equerry & Lady Mary Hope-- Circa 1936

 

 

Actress Ina Claire hugging Cecil Beaton at the opening of "Once Is Enough"-- circa 1937

 

Photographer/designer Cecil Beaton at the switchboard doing his duty as an Air Raid Precautions operator on the estate of Lord and Lady Pembroke-- circa 1940

 

 

Fashion designer Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel w. photographer Cecil Beaton-- circa 1937

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The Legacy of Ralph Lauren | Polo University

 

“People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.”  

–Ralph Lauren

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Formally Speaking | What a Gentleman Knows About Dressing with Style

 

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”  –Oscar Wilde

 

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Crimes Against Tartan | Punishable by Death

 

“Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.”  –Woody Allen

 

In this case, I have to agree.

 

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Short Pattern of Excellence | 1953

 

“Edward VIII replaced his fly buttons with a zip, a revolutionary move; and his Fair Isle pullovers, shorts and Windsor knots were considered by some to foreshadow the end of Empire.”  –Angus McGill

 

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Spring Has Sprung | Vintage GQ Gets Their Color On.

 

“Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?” –George Gobel

 

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GQ-- November, 1968.

 

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Vintage Valley of the Dolls | Best Dressed

 

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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Bigger is Better | Snazzy 1970s Dress Shirts Via Vintage Esquire Magazine

 

“In the 1970s, bigger was better when it came to collars, neckwear, jewelry, and all body hair.”   –JP

 

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Esquire 1971 vintage menswear

 

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