Jane Birkin and her famous bag - the casual style of Hermés

In 1981 Jane Birkin has met Jean-Louis Dumas at the airport. he was the chief executive of Hermés.
Jane Birkin´s natural phenomenon and her problems with her bag on the flight to London has inspired him to design a new bag that reminded him of her casual style and therefore had to be comfortable.

So they bagan to design a handbag that was bigger than the "Kelly" (named on Grace Kelly) but smaller than a suitcase to be comfortable on journeys or small city trips.
This famous handbag has a more casual style than the small "Kelly"-bag and .....

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Hermés was inspired of Jane Birkin´s casual style - The "Birkin"-bag was born

Jane Birkin with her famous bag in black color

Natural beauty: Jane Birkin in the late 1960s

The Birkin-bag in cognac

The Avantgarde - Dolores Del Rio - Art Déco of the 1930s

Dolores Del Rio was an silent-film star, born in Mexico and married with Cedric Gibbons, the art director of MGM studios.

He has designed his own house in Santa Monica with the decadent and visual Art Déco style including Avantgarde notions of architecture and design in order to show his wife as a glamorous film star with luxury interiour design in the background.
Not infrequently he has turned movies with his wife at home by showing the perfect design.

This kind of new modern and very american design in the 1930s was a look of exotic travel, endless cocktail parties and minimalism.
The luxury style of Art Déco, an combination of art and architecture has looked like limitless money, influenced of the American cinema in order to change the taste of the society...

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Dolores Del Rio and her luxury evening style in contrast to the minimalism decor in the background
The glamour of "Old Hollywood"

Art-cinema: Dolores Del Rio in one of her movies

The idea of her husband Cedric Gibbons: Dolores Del Rio wore a wonderful evening dress with cape - in the background the darc color to show her glamorous style

The livingroom of Art Déco style

Lanvin inspired of David Bowie´s wardrobe - "The man who fell to earth"

David Bowie is one of the most referenced musician in fashion history.  The costume design of "Ziggy Stardust" for David Bowie´s performance on stage belonged to Kansai Yamamoto who was also known for his avantgarde kimono designs. His japanese style was more than just fashion.

Even the wardrobe of the movie "The man who fell to earth" was inspiring designer like Lanvin, Prada or Dior for their menswear collection.
The silhouette was a tailored mix of svelte on top and voluminous below. The shirts were slim-fit and white and the trousers were generously pleated....

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1976: David Bowie in his movie "The man who fell to earth" by wearing a dark suit, a tweed coat in combination with a hat

Fall 2011:The menswear collection of Lanvin by using the same elements

David Bowie wore a black pinstripe suit in combination with a hat

Fall 2011: The menswear collection of Lanvin was nearly identical to David Bowie´s 70s style

The world of Guy Bourdin

The french fashion photographer Guy Bourdin has shown the connection between fashion and art by showing two great themes: desire and death.

If we take a look at his legendary pictures we could see a lot of extreme provocative positions of the models in order to get noticed in the first place and to encourage the viewer to think in the second instance, shown in dark fairy tales and horror stories.
In the year 1967 he has shown three slender legs dressed in satin slippers.
In direct comparison there´re many things in common with the work of photographer Helmut Newton....

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1966: Donyale Luna in Paco Rabanne /photo: Guy Bourdin

1967: colorful legs by Guy Bourdin for French Vogue

1977: Guy Bourdin for Pierre Balmain

1971: Guy Bourdin for Yves Saint Laurent

Veruschka for Balenciaga - 1966

The style of Cristóbal Balenciaga was a mixture of minimalism, simplicity and drama in powerful colors and dynamic shapes.
His elegant and feminine design was different from other designer by using materials like silk, wool and mohair.

If we take a look back at Balenciaga we could see architectural creations like ballooning shapes shown by the black evening dress from 1966 with model Veruschka....

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1966: Evening dress of silk#model:Veruschka #design: Cristóbal Balenciaga

1967: puristic style # dress of Cristóbal Balenciaga




1967:Veruschka wore an organza bolero and bloomers of Balenciaga# photo by
Irving Penn for Vogue

Isabella Rossellini and her 80s style

Isabella Rossellini was destined to be a star.
Her mother was the famous Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and her father was the Italian director Roberto Rossellini.
First she has started her career as an actress in Hollywood in movies like "Blue Velvet" with Dennis Hopper.

Later she has begun her lucrative modeling career as she was 28 years old.
In the late 1980s the famous photographer Helmut Newton who was often criticized because of his voyeuristic and legitimately erotic fashion and society pictures has made an unforgettable pic of the couple Isabella Rossellini and David Lynch...

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March 1982: Isabella Rossellini for American Vogue
Bag: Fendi

1986: David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini by Helmut Newton / Los Angeles
 

1987: Isabella for Harper´s Bazaar / USA

Vintage fashion by Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Louise Dahl-Wolfe has studied art and design in San Francisco before focusing on photography.
She has created some of the most iconic fashion images for Harper´s Bazaar from 1936 to 1958 by working closely with the talented fashion editor Diana Vreeland of Harper´s Bazaar in order to show the new concept of sportswear fashion....

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May 1943: Lauren Bacall for Harper´s Bazaar by presenting the new sportswear

1950: Cover of Harper´s Bazaar # Diana Vreeland and Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Paris 1950: Dress of Dior # photo: Louise Dahl-Wolfe

1953: Coat of Balenciaga # photo: Louise Dahl-Wolfe

The luxury fashion of YSL 1971

The haute couture collection of Yves Saint Laurent from spring 1971 has shown the vintage styles of the 1940s era by presenting feminine dresses in combination with high sandals and fake fur jackets.
The designer was inspired of the second World War in order to present feminine details to glamorise the occupation of France in the past...

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vintagefashiondesignart : Gundlach for Nina Richi - vintage fashion photogra...

vintagefashiondesignart : Gundlach for Nina Richi - vintage fashion photogra...: Gundlach for Nina Richi - vintage fashion photography The german photographer F.C. Gundlach has been born in 1926. His first camera has be...

Gundlach for Nina Richi - vintage fashion photography

The german photographer F.C. Gundlach has been born in 1926. His first camera has been an Agfa-Box.

Years later he has begun to work in freelance publications for magazins like "Stern" and "Revue" by making film and theatre reports.

In 1953 he has worked for magazins like "Annabelle"  and "Elegante Welt" which have been based in Hamburg in order to make fashion photography by using the journalistic style.
One of his typical elements has been the black and white photography by taking the models in the right position in order to show their emotions in front of the camera.

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                                                    Paris 1967: Model Wilhelmina for the magazine                                                     "Annabelle" by wearing a coat of Nina Ricci / photo:Gundlach

                                                    Paris 1962: model Gitta Schilling has worn a coat of
                                                    Nina Ricci / photo: Gundlach

                                                     1966: model Karin Mossberg has worn a short coat of 
                                                     Nina Ricci / photo: Gundlach

      
                                                Greece 1966: photo by Gundlach

Givenchy´s vintage clothing - 1950-1990

Hubert de Givenchy was one of the iconic designers who has created the image of the well-dressed women, even in the 1960s.

The look of Givenchy was defined by clean lines and elegant silhouettes.
So Hubert de Givenchy was named for his kind of simple elegance.

This has been shown in the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany´s".
There Audrey Hepburn has presented the elegance and style of Givenchy by wearing the "Little Black Dress".

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                                                    Audrey Hepburn in her movie "Breakfast at Tiffany´s"  by                                                     wearing the "Little Black Dress" of Givenchy

                                                               1967: Evening Dress of Givenchy

 classic style: vintage design of Givenchy 1958

Louis Vuitton´s history in fashion design

Louis Vuitton has created his first piece of luggage in 1858.  The material he has used was canvas.
The original luggage was coloured grey to look as elegant and appealing to as many people as possible.

After few years Louis Vuitton has changed the style and color of the bags because a lot of duplicates have started to appear on the market.

At least the LV label has introduced the Monogram Canvas by patenting it wordwide.
The Monogram Canvas had many graphic symbols, inspired of oriental designs in the Victorian era including flowers, quatrefoils and the LV monogram.

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Original vintage lugguage

1900: First Louis Vuitton Shop in London

1963: Audrey Hepburn with the "Speedy" bag

The one and only: LV monogram canvas

Art meets Fashion - Delpozo spring collection 15

The creations of the spring 15 collection of Delpozo were most fantastical by using sculptural shapes and couture-like fabrications.
The extreme proportions of the sportswear were shown by pairing structured jackets and crip tops with wide-legged culottes or trousers.

The highlight of the fashion show was the contrast between the materials of the shiny vinyl with chiffon on skirts and at least with the embroidered tulle which reminded us of the artists work of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.

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Designer pieces - Sale

Shopping, Shopping, Shopping: let´s make the run to get the designer it-pieces that are reduced now.
No matter if you need special key looks for the office or wanna look sporty in your free time -
there are a lot of brands like Moschino or Chanel to get the special look for your own lifestyle.

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Bowling bag, clutch and brooch: Chanel
sunglasses: Missoni

Grace Kelly in Balenciaga

In 1954 Grace Kelly has worn the wonderful suit of Edit Head, wo was inspired of Cristóbal Balenciaga´s design in order to create the costume suit for the thriller "Rear Window" of Alfred Hitchcock.
There she has played the part of Lisa together with actor James Stewart as her boyfriend, who have watched the murderer in the opposite apartment.

The green suit of Grace Kelly including the long jacket with stand up collar, round shoulders and the lenght pencilskirt in slim cut have reflected her femininity and has been nearly identical to the design of Balenciaga.

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