The Dutch vintage fashion photographer Paul Huf
Paul Huf (1924-2002) was an important Dutch photographer. He started his career in 1946 at the “Comedia theater company”. In the Fifties, he became famous thanks to his portraits of Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and Prince Bernhard. He also shot advertisings and fashion photos particulary with the model Ann Pickford. These photos are particulary elegant…
Everything is cuter with cats ! (2)
1950s fashion photos starring cats : 1960s fashion photos starring cats : Source : Pinterest
A vintage Christmas in photos (3)
1900s Christmas : 1910s Christmas : 1920s Christmas : 1930s Christmas : Forties Christmas : Fifties Christmas : Sixties Christmas :
Rêve onirique
Ce n’était qu’un songe, lumineux et sidérant de beauté. Edward Steichen’s photo of the actress Helen Menken (Humphrey Bogart’s first wife) in the late 1920s and my photo of the shadow of artificial flowers on the wall with a photoshop filter.
The vintage photographer Paul Tanqueray
Paul Tanqueray (1905-1991) was an English photographer. The well-known photographer Cecil Beaton had been his assistant until 1927. The Paul Tanqueray’s work was weekly published in the magazines Sketch and Tatler. His photos were also regularly in the covers of Theatre World. He shot famous actresses such as Anna May Wong, Vivian Leigh and Tallulah…
The vintage fashion House Molyneux
Edward Molyneux (1891-1974) was a British fashion designer based in Paris and known for his elegant and wearable clothes. He represented the Parisian chic and elegance. In 1911, he started as a sketcher after he won a design competition organized by the fashion designer Lucile.
Ode à Terpsichore, Muse de la danse
Marc Jacobs’ gown and Eichholtz Valencia mirror. In 1931, the vintage photographer George Hoyningen-Huene pays a tribute to the dancer Isodora Duncan and is inspired by Ancient Greece. The model wears a Madeleine Vionnet’s crepe pajamas. The American dancer Isodora Duncan (1877-1917) is considered as the mother of Modern dance. She revolutioned the dance with…
The vintage fashion photographer John Rawlings
John Rawlings (1912-1970) was a mid-20th-century American fashion photographer who worked for Condé Nast (Vogue and Glamour) during three decades (1936-1960s). He learned alongside Horst P. Horst and George Platt Lynes when he was their assistant at Condé Nast from 1936. During his career, he collaborated with Glamour and the American, British and French Vogue.
The duo of vintage fashion photographers Leombruno-Bodi
Joseph Leombruno and Jack Bodi (1918-1986) were American fashion photographers based in Italy. They collaborated with famous magazines like Vogue, Glamour, House & Garden, Modern Bride, Town & Country, Novita and the NY Yimes during the 1950s and 1960s. Life and work partners, their partnership began in the 1940s and lasted 43 years. According to…
The German vintage fashion designer Uli Richter
Uli Richter (born in 1926) is a German fashion designer based in Berlin who influenced like no other post-war German fashion. He launched the “Berlin chic” : he created modern, simple but chic, high quality, and wearable clothes for all the women. His talent exeeded the Germany’s borders ; he knew a big success…
The French vintage fashion designer Jacques Fath
Jacques Fath (1912-1954) was a French fashion designer who marked Haute couture during the postwar period with Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain. He was an autodidacte, he didn’t do fashion studies. In 1937, he started his fashion business located at 32 rue de la Boétie with Mme Gulbenkian. Jacques Fath raised awareness on Vogue in…
The vintage fashion photographer Horst P. Horst
Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) was an American fashion photographer who worked from 1931 to 1991. He shot famous models like Jean Shrimpton and Suzy Parker. He also made portraits of Hollywood stars like Rita Hayworth and Gene Tierney. His photos were sophisticated and creative.
The vintage fashion photographer Philippe Pottier
Philippe Pottier (1905-1991) was a French fashion photographer. His photos were magnificent, graceful, lovely and elegant. He often photographed models wearing Christian Dior, Lanvin or Madame Grès.
The Place Vendôme in Paris in photos
Place Vendôme is a luxury and jewelry symbol in Paris. The greatest jewelry designers are located there. This place was designed in 1699 by the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart (the architect of the Chateau de Versailles). Place Vendôme is octogonal and symetric with an architectural unity. At the center, there is a column surmounted by a statue.…
The vintage fashion House Maggy Rouff
Maggy Rouff (1896-1971) was a French couturier, nicknamed “the architect of sewing”. Gifted with a remarkable technique, she loved playing with asymmetry and innovative shapes. In 1929, she bought with her husband the couture house “Drecoll” and renamed it in “Maggy Rouff”. The couture house was located 136 avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. In 1937,…
The vintage fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene
Born in Russia, George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968) was a famous photographer especially during the 1920s and 1930s. He began as a fashion draftman for magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Faichild’s Magazine. From 1925 to 1935, he was the chief photographer of French Vogue. Then, from 1935, he produced photoshoots for Harper’s Bazaar. In the 1940’s, he…
The Old Hollywood photographer Robert Coburn
Robert Coburn (1900-1990) was a Hollywood photographer who captured the most famous movie stars from the 1930s to 1960s (Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Kim Novak, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper…). For 20 years, he had worked for Columbia studio. He particulary shot the great actress Rita Hayworth ; he was her favourite photographer.
