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"Changing aesthetics: Shopping online for clothes typically involves scrolling through pages and..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:22:47 +0100

“Changing aesthetics: Shopping online for clothes typically involves scrolling through pages and pages of images. Mary Kantrantzou believes that this has lead to shoppers paying more attention to designs that stand out - in particular unusual colours or prints. She believes this has been a factor in the resurgence of print.”

- Soundboy: How the internet influences what we wear (via new-aesthetic)

voicesofeastanglia: Cosak - Space Age Tailoring “It has...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:07:53 +0100

voicesofeastanglia:

Cosak - Space Age Tailoring

“It has no age tag.”

A photo of the Savile Row Protest against the coming of...

Wed, 02 May 2012 22:36:10 +0100

A photo of the Savile Row Protest against the coming of Abercrombie and Fitch as organised by The Chap (“a journal for the modern gentleman), posted by John Hawkins to Pinwheel (which is still in private beta).

More coverage: Stephanie Wolff’s Flickr set; a comment piece by Gustav Temple in the Guardian.

Final fitting of the A7L spacesuit for one of the Apollo 17...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:57:06 +0100

Final fitting of the A7L spacesuit for one of the Apollo 17 astronauts (possibly Harrison Schmitt), from the Project Apollo Gallery (image ap17-72-H-314).

This one’s as much for the cheeky chaps in the background as for the spacesuit itself. It’s worth looking at some of the other photos on that site, too, such as this image of the suit in launch position.

One last Richard Avedon photograph from the 1965 Harper’s...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:32:05 +0100

One last Richard Avedon photograph from the 1965 Harper’s Bazaar modern special: Naty Abascal. (You’d never allow a cigarette near the pure-oxygen atmospheres of a 1960s space mission, but never mind.)

Paul McCartney in a Mercury spacesuit, London, 1965, by Richard...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:31:00 +0100

Paul McCartney in a Mercury spacesuit, London, 1965, by Richard Avedon. (image, via)

I’m far from a huge fan of the Beatles, nor McCartney, but this is such a good cultural artefact I feel like I should post it anyway.

The special issue of Harper’s Bazaar - edited by Avedon - that included this image and the Jean Shrimpton photographs is iconic enough that it was the focus of a Vanity Fair article, in the December 2009 issue. Sadly it’s not online; I expect it’s interesting.

Jean Shrimpton in a Mercury spacesuit, for Harpers...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:57:05 +0100

Jean Shrimpton in a Mercury spacesuit, for Harpers Bazaar’s April 1965 issue. Photographs: Richard Avedon (via)

Alana Zimmer at The Fox Is Black:

Shrimpton was the It girl of 1960s fashion and became the face of off-beat culture. Avedon couldn’t have picked a better model to be his galaxy girl. At a time when the idea of a female astronaut was unheard of, Shrimpton was the face of youth culture.

pjmix: “Jet-Age”, Gunel Person F.C. Gundlach Hamburg 1963 in:...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:10:06 +0000

pjmix:

“Jet-Age”, Gunel Person F.C. Gundlach Hamburg 1963 in: Brigitte 17/1963 (via)

Everyone loves jets, right?

Mirella Petteni by F.C. Gundlach, at iainclaridge.co.uk. A...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:10:19 +0000

Mirella Petteni by F.C. Gundlach, at iainclaridge.co.uk.

A couple of years ago I saw an exhibition of Gundlach’s work at the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. I’m not usually a huge fan of fashion photography, but I think Gundlach deserves to be well (better?) known. His black and white work, in particular, hits all the right spots for me.

This photograph is from 1963, and it’s not the most practical space suit in the world, but I like the angle and the parachute, so here it is.

livelymorgue: March 4, 1968: “Don’t call them paper dresses,”...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:19:22 +0000

livelymorgue:

March 4, 1968: “Don’t call them paper dresses,” began a report about a line of disposable dresses that could be reimagined as posters. The one seen here features Cape Kennedy. Another? An Allen Ginsberg poem. “The intent is for pretty young things to buy them on impulse and wear them to the beach or parties,” the reporter wrote. “Matrons, stay away.” Photo: Arthur Brower/The New York Times

I love the idea of the Lively Morgue posts, which combine archival photographs with the more ephemeral scribblings on their reverse. Obviously, the picture I reblog is going to be the one with the rocket in it.