Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

- Yves Saint Laurent

Photograph by Irving Penn, 1983

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Aesthetic Experience

Aesthetic Experience

I am desperate and vulnerable. I am always terrified. Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

- Faye Dunaway

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Tutus for Tennis

Tutus for Tennis

Designer Teddy Tinling had reason to know what makes a good tennis dress. For 22 years, until the flare-up over Miss Moran's pants caused him to resign, he was Master of Ceremonies of the center court at Wimbledon. He dressed almost every important woman player—and about half of the men, including Seixas and Trabert. Mass-produced copies of his custom-designed Wimbledon costumes were also sold to more than 10,000 less well-known but equally ardent players in England and in America.

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The Speed Affair

The Speed Affair

Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.

- Steve McQueen

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United States Rubber

United States Rubber

1957 vintage ad.


U.S. Rubber has created a revolutionary new swim cap material - WATER VELVET - that actually looks like velvet... feels like velvet... yet comes out of the sea without a blemish, unbelievably soft and glowing. You'll feel beautiful as never before, and your hair will stay wonderfully dry in a U.S. Swim Cap of new Water Velvet.

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Queens. No Jacks allowed.

Queens. No Jacks allowed.

Playtime. 


For a beach rummy with elegance.

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Put some fun between your legs

Put some fun between your legs

"Yes I'd like some fun between my legs. Please rush me."

Classic Vintage Ad from the late 70s.

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Cherchez la femme en la Chevy

Cherchez la femme en la Chevy

Look for the woman in a 1959 Chevrolet and you'll find a woman in style!

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And he said...

And he said...

This here's Miss Bonnie Parker.
I'm Clyde Barrow. 
We rob banks.

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But you have to see, Helmut.

But you have to see, Helmut.

A photograph is a secret about a secret.
The more it tells you the less you know.

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I have heard the mermaids singing

I have heard the mermaids singing

VOGUE, January 1963


Photograph by Louise Dahl-Wolfe

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It’s so simple to be wise

It’s so simple to be wise

MEN.
I love them - I really do.

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The Prince of Darkness

The Prince of Darkness

For me, music and life are all about style.


- Miles Davis

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