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Gil Elvgren Pinups: Reality to Fantasy

Sharon — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:29:16 +0000

How interesting to see the difference between reality and the final product in Elvgren’s pinups. I’d never seen these before…

Lydia Hearst in Playboy France, November 2008

Sharon — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:34:47 +0000

Gemma Arterton: British GQ April 2010

Sharon — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:51:30 +0000

Jessica Alba for the Campari Calendar 2009

Sharon — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:30:28 +0000

Carlo Pieroni and his Pin-ups

Jo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:35:26 +0000

Carlo Pieroni was born in Florence, Italy. His work is a combination of photography and digital manipulation where he “paints” each image to create a timeless vision of femininity, always on the borderline between reality and fantasy, where the woman is never an object but the driving subject of a highly calibrated seduction game.

Post Modern Pinup

Jo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:17 +0000

The pinup look never goes out of style. In V62, Willy Vanderperre and Olivier Rizzo subvert the sex appeal of Victoria’s Secret superstars Miranda Kerr and Ana Beatriz Barros to create a beautiful Resort collection. Click photos for more information about what the lovely pinups are wearing.

From V Magazine

Photography Willy Vanderperre
Styling Olivier Rizzo

Makeup Sally Branka
Hair Paul Hanlon
Models Miranda Kerr (IMG) and Ana Beatriz Barros (Elite)

Photo assistants Antoine Breant, Nyra Lang, Ben Dos Remedios
Stylist assistants Shala Rothenberg and Eugenie Toroella
Makeup assistant Lucy Burt
Hair assistants Tina Outen and Nathan Jasztal
Special thanks Stas Komarovski (Dtouch), Elisa Allenbach,
Paula Dantas da Rocha (Janvier Paris)

This story originally appeared in V62

1940s Faux Bangs by Fleur de Guerre

Jo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:53:49 +0000

A part-time pinup girl and full-time Forties enthusiast, Fleur de Guerre shares her knowledge of vintage and provides lots of authentic vintage & retro fashion inspiration, plus styling tips & tricks, events and other fun stuff. Here is a great video of her showing how to create faux bangs that were so popular in the 1940s.

Fleur is exceptionally skilled and truly has a knack for what she’s doing. She has styled for a number of photo shoots and here are some pictures:

Model Sinderella Rockerfella, and we shot at a Hot Rod garage in the depths of Bedfordshire.
Miss Mink, the Pinup Poet

Miss FanTeasy, burlesque star and owner of some seriously luxuriant tresses!

Top top it off, she’s a model as well. Click here to go to her gallery, otherwise here are a few of my favorites:

Pictures by John Evans, Tobias Key, Damon Allen Davison, and Paul Godfrey respectively.

Bebaroque Hosiery

Sharon — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:10:05 +0000

Having been seeing a lot of swing girls at events wearing embellished stockings (remember Katie Anderson’s floral patterned stockings here?), I was delighted to stumble across Scottish company Bebaroque. I love the sailor blue pinup prints on opaque white tights!

They also have these cute opaque tights with bows – yes, the bows are on the tights, not the shoes:

Pinup Superhero: Carla Gugino as Silk Spectre in Watchmen (2009)

Sharon — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:29:13 +0000

I just rented Watchmen on DVD, and lord, it’s a great film – the opening credit sequence is amazing! But anyway, of particular interest to Swing Fashionistas, is Carla Gugino playing 1940s superheroine, the original Silk Spectre (aka Sally Jupiter). Check out those victory rolls! Here’s a few more shots from the film, and at the end an unrelated pinup shot of Carla Gugino in a similar Varga girl style. Va va voom!

Vanity Fair’s Vanities: Modern Starlets as Retro Pinups

Sharon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:19:45 +0000