Misery Playlist

Uh-oh.

It started with Nancy Sinatra's version of "Bang Bang"

and then it was "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" by Dusty Springfield

pretty soon it will be Skeeter Davis' "End of the World" ... this is shaping up to be a day of 60s heartbreak music.

Anything I should add to this playlist as long as I'm wallowing in lonleyness and misery?

Night Porter (again)

I saw some great screen caps from one of my altime favourite movies, at one of my alltime favourite blogs (They Don't Call them Lovers in Highschool, Leland) While I am not a fan of her more popular blog, Sea of Shoes (I guess I'm just jealous), I really like this other blog, which instead of the consumerist/materialist themes of SoS - the young author blogs about big ugly squids, strange 60s-90s fashion advertisements and the sortof dark, sexy stuff like The Night Porter.

I wanted to reblog this photo because, if I'm not mistake, Michelle's hair is kindof this length here. I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO AS CHARLOTTE RAMPLING FROM THE NIGHT PORTER for halloween this year. We can just tape those suspenders down. I think it would a hit! You only have about 4 months to get this costume together (and I'm not sure where you can find a replica SS officer's hat).

W Mag July 2010 "Lunch Break"

Whose Pretending it's the 60's this time?

W Magazine's Terry Richardson & Alex White in the editorial "Lunch Break".

So, I fell in love with this shot, which probably had more to do with Alex White's styling and the Miu Miu dresses than Terry's ... I guess it is technically a photograph, even if I don't want to call it that...

But then I saw the rest of the editorial and it was just so awful. I mean, compare it to my previous post of Peter Lindberg's work and I think it's plain to see that this editorial lacks the mood, compelling narrative and thoughful composition of Lindberg's pieces.

I realise that it's just a different style, and sometimes I really like Richardson's work - but I don't think the clothes (or models) were best flattered by this style of photography.

Tao was even in this editorial and I still don't like it. I guess it just goes to show that throwing Tao and Stam and 60s aesthetics and lolita styling together doesn't automatically win me over... I know, I'm as shocked as the rest of you! Thoughts?

That being said, this is "A really good look"

July 2010 Vogue

I really love these photographs by Peter Lindbergh for July 2010 Vogue and not just because of the styling and the aesthetic - they really tell a story. It's not the most original narrative in the world, but it's an excellent way to highlight the 50s-60s inspired pieces from this season - and Natalia looks ravishing, as usual.

Read the whole story, see all the photos.

1960s yes please

Inga Eiriksdottir: Vogue Russia March 2010

more at fashionising

1960s Ad

for reference on the Dakota Fanning cover below
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V Magaine - Dakota Fanning

1960s hair/makeup + Dakota Fanning

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60s makeup

I adore the makeup in this photograph. From here, from Vanity Fair.

60s hair and glasses

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I'm having very conflicting feelings here. Do I want to BE her or be WITH her? (forever).

shoes and styles

Let's review YSL cage shoes:

These have been out for ages now and my love for them has only grown. Just look at that high-waisted black skirt and sheer white button up with 1960s makeup...it's like they the styling for these shoes is secret message:

Kiki STOP Buy these shoes STOP I made them for you STOP with love STOP YSL STOP.

I hear you loud and clear my sweet little shoe-lovers! I think I will be buying these knock-offs though. Much more reasonably priced.


Louboutin MaryJane pumps. *drool*


check out this girls lookbook and her blog. She's so young and beautiful! and in Victoria!

Drew in POP

Lulu and Cilla Black, 1960s pop singers


Drew Barrymore by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for POP # 10 Autumn 2005

POP seems to like the sixties as much as I do... I must try harder to style my hair like this.
xoxo

Hot Pants!

60s , 70s gallery...has a whole gallery dedicated to HOT PANTS. (left, US 1966 - Lori Williams and right, US 1967 - Raquel Welch)

Costume Institute Gala

Ladies!

I think if there was a middle ground located stylistically exactly between these three looks - it would be the conceptual epitome of my fashion tastes. It would have 1960's styling, old Hollywood glamor, lacey lolita influences and have a healthy helping of BALLS. Because good fashion is always crazy-go-nuts (not pictured: Kate Moss rocking a turban - so amazing and sexy early 1950s glamour) .

Go pic the three looks that orbit your ultimate favourite style and then comment so that I can go look at them (not that I'm going to not internet stalk you all day long.)
xoxoxoox

Found Photos Friday

ABOVE: Two of the hottest models, Karmen Pedaru and Abbey Lee Kershaw, are setting the May issue of Numero Korea aflame. The editorial, titled ‘Deception,’ pits the two in a steamy encounter shot by photographer Mariano Vivanco.The Australia-born Abbey Lee Kershaw is 22 and lives in New York, while 19-year-old Karmen Pedaru, from the Republic of Estonia, has been marked as a rising star among top models. SOURCE



ABOVE: Dear Creatures Campaign FW 2009
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by Paco Peregin reblooged from source
THOSE ARE LOLIPOP SHOES. I MUST HAVE THEM. Srsly. Name your price, Internet. Anyone who can find me these shoes can borrow them from me when ever they want and I would love you long time (as in, forever),


BELOW:
Vouge Nippon April 2009 "Lady Lust" : was only going to post one of these, but I got carried away:
According to an editorial photo shoot for Vogue Nipon, Lady Lust is on the streets of the Big Apple.The title reads, “On the streets of New York, warmer weather means fashion that screams sex. Gotham girls always do it best.” Vogue Nippon says the styles worn by ladies of the night in the 1960s is the fashion forward look for the summer of 2009. Ripped stockings are featured on street walking models Abbey Lee Kershaw, Eniko Mihalik, Constance Jablonski, Joshua Walter, Martin Cohn, Sessilee Lopez and Fernanda Tavares. Photography was by Sebastian Faena.

Obvs, I adore the styling in the above photos. I would just die if I could be in pictures like this, be styled like this and have a wardrobe like this. Not literally of course, so long as someone would be there to resussitate me or restart my heart or use smelling salts to awaken me from my lolita-faint. Which reminds me how much I need a fainting couch.

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ABOVE: VBECKS IN POP
or "how the 60's can make anyone look great" ...oh, wait, these are from 2004. NVR MND. I guess 5 years in hollywood can turn you an orange alien creature with grapefruits for breasts: the fashion SPAWN.
Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott photographed Victoria for the spring/summer 04 issue of Pop.


Vouge September 2003

Who's pretending it's the 1960's? (no, not me, this time)

Runner-up: Gisele April 2009




Winner:

Natalia in Vouge 2009 May
How could I possibly choose a favourite photo from this editorial?
(hopefully this is not old news to everyone)

With Nathan

Alright cats, this is too funny not to relay to you right now.
This is my approximation of the phone call that woke me out of my nap....any liberties I have taken with this conversation, which is meant to be in no way...making fun of Nathan...I just have to tell you because it made me smile! It was very life affirming.

N "They were sold out of pants"
K "I'm sorry... I didn't know you were shopping for pants."
N " I was at H&M"
K "Uh-Huh."
N "That. Place."
K "?"
N "Bo and I went there for the first time today...and she saw this dress that was identical to the one she bought at Value Village and wears every summer."
K "Yea, awesome."
N "NO. There was a time when people who dressed like that did so because they were poor - because they spent all their money on liquor - and then they combed Value Village for all the sweet hipster stuff. And then they looked like cool hipsters. BUT NOW ALL THE SWEET STUFF IS MASS PRODUCED AND VERY REASONABLY PRICED AT H+M.
K "Yes...Awesome?"
N "NO. Between the minimalist stuff at AA and the kitschy stuff at H+M there is no fringe style anymore, it's game over, they are selling my/our identity back to us. I'm only going to wear black t shirts and blue denim jeans and non-descript black shoes - if I can do it without looking too punk or survivalist - from now on, that's it, it's over!"
K "...Yea, I know, sorry about that, you can thank the internet for eliminating the gap between the fringe fashion and commercialist fashion. It's over-the-counter-culture."
N "Yea, I know that too, but - did you know that MOD fashion is coming back too?"
K " I don't think it ever left...It's pretty indistinguishable from the mainstream now, unless it's done with a very critical eye for authenticity."
N " No, but seriously, I was telling Bo about your style and the Quadrephenia parka I want and she said that her friends in New York are all about that 60s mod thing right now."
K "Yea, nothing happens in New York. Sweden. Tokyo. Without the internet letting me/us/Michelle/Veronica know. If blog-girls started wearing forks in their hair, I would know about it. I hope you've realized that I'm the coolest, most awesome-ly dressed person you know and you will quit liking other hipster chicks dumb tights and plaid and bruce springsteen 'fashion' better than mine."
N "........................... *long conversation that PRETTY MUCH is a resounding 'yes, kiki, you are the greatest queen of fashion'.* ......... IF anything, you need to dress MORE kiki-style. MORE like yourself. FUCK that spectre of comprimise/normalicy in your wardrobe. Go for head to toe full on sweet lolita."

Barbie Runway - Post One of Many

My initial favourites from the Barbie 50th Anniversary Runway Show. I know you guys were counting on my to cover this. Sorry it took so long. I am suprised I did not favourite the Betsey Johnson Number as well, but it was a green eighties prom dress, so, neither pink nor kawaii enough for me.

Rachel Roy, Nicole Miller and Koi Suwannagate's designs for Barbie's 50 Anniversary Runway show, shown on the left and right, respectively, above.

“I love Barbie’s fun spirit! She makes me think of happy outfits and bright colors. I think of ‘pink butterflies’ representing her femininity,” said Koi Suwannagate. (INSTYLE, like the photos.)

Nicole Miller's checkerboard trapeze dress and swing coat is the third outfit she has done for Barbie, filling a childhood void from a time when her French-born mother wouldn't let her have one of the dolls.

"I always envision Barbie in that '60s mode - I made her mid- to late-'60s mod," said Miller. It's a version of a dress Miller put in her very first runway show, worn by Linda Evangelista. "It was the season she was a blond. I immediately thought of that outfit." (msnbc)

More Sixties Fashion

Model Wearing a Mary Quant Dress: who has the sexiest lips? Hint: It's not the girl.
with the Rolling Stones, photographer John French. Copyright V&A




Twiggy, looking like a pouty school girl. I need that coat!
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The Sixties

Dear Wam Fans,

Hi! It's me, the sixties! I know you haven't really missed me, because I've been around, here and there, mostly in the form of mod orange furniture in consignment stores and photo slide shows of Twiggy. I just wanted to send a quick note to, well, brag about how well I've been doing lately. While my tacky cousin, the eighties has been popping up all over Hipster Runoff and doing coke and dancing to electronica with all you stylish bloggers - I have been hanging out with Angelina Jolie and breathing the spirit of the Kennedy Camelot into high fashion magazine editorials. Check me out!

Much love, your friend,
The Sixties

Editorial: Domestic Bliss
Magazine: W
Issue: July 2005
Celebrities: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Photographer: Steven Klein





PS. I know, she's so beautiful it hurts. Click to see more, then look at this photo of Jolie without as much makeup and photoshopping, it will make you feel less nauseated by her unearthly beauty

Vintage Fashion Scans

I found some amazing vintage fashion scans when looking around today. Check out Eleganceisrefusal on Flickr and Vintage Fashion Scans for more. Here are my favorites:




(both of the above from 1960's issues of Vouge)


(above is from 1966 Mademoiselle)


(Early 1960's Glamour Magazine)