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