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My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time

1. Anette Aurel, Elle, Oct 1998

2. Uncredited :( , Elle, Oct 1998

perched

A chunky mannish sock, embossed croc, and a chick. So wrong it's very very right. 

Walter Chin, Elle France, Sept 1988 (for a Valentino-themed editorial)

art bae?

 

By Marcel Vertès from But What Do You Need Me For?

The lols book cover: 

very chic

1. Text ripped from Vogue Italia Oct 1993 

2. John Scarisbrick, Deliciae Vitae N2 Spring 2002 

3. My doctor's heavenly trash

nute nicholson

Chinatown forever

push it along

1. Typography/design by William Metzig via Lubalin Center Archive (circa ??)

2. Thomas Schenk, Jalouse Nov 1997

xposure

1. Jack Pierson, Detour magazine, Nov 1997 (model wears John Bartlett)

2. Lucas Samaras, auto-polaroid 1969-71

please stand by

8/15 mood

1. "Future" graphic t-shirt now available from Yesstyle

2. Patricia Piccinini, Game Boys Advanced, 2002

3. Excerpt from Jean Cocteau's Diary of an Unknown, 1953

4. ? Stickpin from the now defunct dept.store, Bonwit Teller, 1965, eBay

5. Closeup of an ad for Maxwell Paper by Anton Bruehl, c 1955

6. Le1f in Eckhaus Latta AW14 by André Herrero

7. Union Bay ad, Fall 1997

way way up

1. Robert Clergerie at Bergdorfs ad, Spring 1984

2. Old Clergeries, eBay
3. Old Barneys NY, eBay
4. Martiniano @ Maryam Nassir Zadeh

found me out

1. Mainbocher dress, photo by Hoyningen-Huene, Vogue Paris, 1934

2.  Emporio Armani Magazine n°4, Sept 1990

control plus

WWD, March 22, 1984 | Claude Montana velvet coat over silk robe and pants, WWD, April 20, 1984 | Shamask at Bergdorfs ad, Fall 1982

face value

Thanks to Asian e-tailer Yesstyle...I bring you a fashion love poem.

 

Embedded codes beneath clothes (usually concealed, obscured, or abstracted) are brought right to the surface.

 

Victor Hugo x Halston

1975 display, photos by Malan Studio

Halston looking through the window of a 1976 display, photo by Malan Studio

Victor Hugo created the Halston store window displays on Madison Avenue starting in the mid 1970s. Warhol called it street theater, New York magazine called it mayhem, and Hugo simply called the windows his "weekly paintings." Most themes leaned toward the Grand Guignol, with mannequins being used as a site for fantasy, melodrama, and violence.

Just like the style of brutal eroticism in 1970s fashion photography (Bourdin, Newton, Von Wangenheim, Turbeville, etc), many NYC retail windows echoed the same sentiment. Along with Hugo, there was Candy Pratts Price for Bloomingdales and Robert Currie for Bendel's, who all constructed bold narratives that asked more questions than they answered.

Luxury and terror in a fashion image: an unlikely or now obvious pairing? Often appealing nonetheless. Shock and seduction as an allure to purchase. 

skiwear

Parka by Irving of Montreal at Saks, Vogue, Dec 1950 | Waterproof mittens by White Stag at Lord & Taylor,  "zippered so you can keep mittens on, still get at cigarettes, tow tickets," Vogue, Dec 1950

"Paris, this winter, gives a new ballet flavour to the ski-run. Offers: a new look to legs, in pants of black gabardine, tight as tights. A new look to ankles, in red leather straps laced high like a dancer's." Carven, Vogue, Dec 15, 1946

"White rawhide thong (like those in your boots) threads the sack-neck of this black nylon parka; easily pulled on, pulled close." Vogue, Dec 1950

Nylon jacket with removable hood by White Stag at Bloomingdales, Vogue, Dec 1950 | Parka with emblems of Swiss cantons by Irving of Montreal at Saks, Vogue, Dec 1950

"A lift from a Swiss milkman's jacket" by Picard of Sun Valley Idaho at Bloomingdales, Vogue, Dec 1950

Alpaca cape coverall "worn between runs. With collar that's almost a hood." Vogue, Jan 1947

Vogue Paris, 1953? | Lanvin ensemble, Vogue Paris, Jan 1938