From Glamour magazine, Germany, November 2005, via Dust Jacket Attic. Photograph by Neil Kirk, model Vlada Rolyakova, stylist Kai Magrander.
Seamed Cuban Heel Stockings in German Glamour Magazine
Tag: 1930s
Beautiful Besame Cosmetics
I’ve played with Besame Cosmetics, and I can say it’s a lovely brand of makeup, with a spot-on accurate palette of vintage colors. But mainly, it’s the gorgeous vintage-recreation packaging that I love. If I ever stop travelling and find myself with my own dressing table, this is what would be on it. In the photo above is Gabriela Hernandez, the founder of the company.
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Jean Harlow – The Original Platinum Blonde
Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri in 1911. In her short life (she died at the age of 26), she became one of film history’s greatest icons, and the original blonde bombshell. She was the first movie actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine. In her 10 year acting career, she made 36 movies, including Howard Hughes Hell’s Angels (with her famous line, “Would you be shocked if I changed into something more comfortable?”), Platinum Blonde, Red Dust, The Secret Six, Wife vs. Secretary, Dinner at Eight, and Bombshell. To accompany her escalating career, in 1935 she legally changed her name to Jean Harlow, her mother’s maiden name. She was married three times, and was engaged to actor William Powell when she died of kidney failure (a result of the scarlet fever she had suffered as a child) in 1937. She is buried in the mausoleum in Forest Lawn Glendale, in Los Angeles.
Claudia Schiffer in UK Harper’s Bazaar November 2009
Claudia Schiffer has scarlet lips, flowing Veronica Lake waves and a retro wardrobe in this month’s UK Harper’s Bazaar, which pits her as a vintage heroine against pulp fiction worthy ghosts and ghouls, in a feature titled Mystery in the Moonlight. Art directed by the Chapman Brothers, photographed by Michelangelo di Battista and illustrated by Jon Rogers.
Ain’t We Got Style: Vanity Fair August 2009
What a wonderful editorial in the August 2009 edition of US Vanity Fair, recreating scenes from 1930s (ie: depression era) films. The movies shown here are They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (above), and below It Happened One Night, My Man Godfrey and Paper Moon.
