tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522207326805524082023-11-16T10:54:25.037-06:00Ladybug VintageLadybug Vintage Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932035611281032316noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352220732680552408.post-42459003393947309822016-01-06T10:30:00.000-06:002016-01-06T10:30:54.819-06:00Pierre Cardin <div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.9rem; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: firebrick;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">On my recent trip to Paris, I visited the Musée Pierre Cardin located in the Marais neighborhood.</strong></span> It showcases an amazing collection of Pierre Cardin’s clothing, jewelry, accessories and furniture, ranging from his earliest pieces to contemporary ones.</div>
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It is truly a mecca for all things “Cardin” and includes three floors and over 200 pieces of Cardin’s haute couture creations.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Interior of Musée Cardin.</em></h6>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Accessories room, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Pierre Cardin gloves from the 1960s, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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The museum opened in November 2014, and is curated by Cardin’s longtime assistant and apprentice, Renée Taponier, who has worked for Cardin for over 50 years, having started with him when she was only 14 years old.</div>
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Pierre Cardin is perhaps best known for his licenses — his name is on hundreds of products, everything from cologne to underwear to linens to ties. At its height, Cardin had more than 800 licenses in 140 countries. Unfortunately, many of the licensed products were not well made, leaving the impression that the Cardin brand was shoddily made or low-end. However, it wasn’t always this way. In fact, the Cardin label had been a part of the haute couture system and for many years catered only to wealthy clientele. But Cardin has always been a forward thinker and anticipated the monetary and branding power of licensing years before Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan came along.</div>
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The shrewd entrepreneurial skills and business foresight that Cardin has displayed throughout his career have made him one of the world’s wealthiest designers and a household name. Cardin’s vision led to a number of firsts: Not only was he the first couturier to sign licensing agreements, but he was also the first to create a ready-to-wear line and the first to open up markets in Japan and China.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Pierre Cardin on the December 23, 1974, cover of Time.</em></h6>
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Pierre Cardin was born on July 2, 1922, in Northern Italy to French parents. Originally, he was named Pietro Cardin. Cardin moved with his parents to France when he was 2 years old and later moved to Paris when he was 23 years old. There, he worked first with the house of Paquin, then Schiaparelli, and finally Dior, where he was credited with having helped create Dior’s revolutionary “New Look.”</div>
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In 1950, Cardin founded his own company. He presented his first women’s collection in 1953. In 1954, Cardin designed his “bubble dress,” which became an immediate international success. That same year, he opened his first boutique called Eve, located at 118 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.</div>
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Cardin’s early designs were much more conservative and “Dior-like” than the avant-garde designs of the 1960s and 1970s for which he is best known. In Chicago, we are lucky to have a rare example of Cardin’s early work at the Chicago History Museum. The two-piece, green tweed ensemble below was designed by Cardin in 1956. It was owned by Chicagoan Eloise Wright Martin, who purchased it at the Chicago department store Blum’s and donated it to the museum in 1980.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">1956 Pierre Cardin dress, collection of the Chicago History Museum.</em></h6>
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In 1959, Cardin became a member of the Chambre Syndicale, a French association of haute couture designers. Also in 1959, Cardin produced a ready-to-wear collection for the department store Printemps. At the time, this was a shocking idea and had never been done by an haute couture designer. It caused an uproar in the fashion world, but Cardin was always forward-thinking and wanted to design for everyone, not just the wealthy who could afford his couture designs. Of this, he said, “I ask myself: Why is it that only rich people can access exclusive fashion? Why can’t a man or woman off the street do so? I could change this rule. And I did.” By doing this, he was able to greatly expand his audience and his brand. Many designers would go on to follow his example.</div>
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In 1960, Cardin presented his first collection for men. One of the items was a suit with skinny trousers and a cylindrical, collarless jacket. It was to become the influence for the suits worn by the Beatles in the early 1960s.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">1964 Beatles album cover featuring suits influenced by Pierre Cardin’s design.</em></h6>
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Cardin’s 1960s women’s designs showed his interest in architecture. They were structural in appearance and were made out of stiff, crisp fabrics like wool crepe and jersey. Many of his dresses were made in the form of geometric shapes and decorated with circular and rectangular motifs.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Pierre Cardin dresses from 1966, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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The 1960s brought about the possibility of travel to space. This greatly influenced Cardin’s designs and led him to create his iconic “Space Age Look,” the idea of dressing for the future. He incorporated metallic fabrics and Space Age textiles such as vinyl into his designs. Some of his fashions were made entirely of plastic and metal. He used large industrial zippers and even designed helmet-like hats influenced by astronauts’ headgear. In 1968, he created his own fabric called “Cardine,” a bonded, uncrushable fiber incorporating raised geometric patterns.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Pierre Cardin 1968 vinyl and plastic ‘Space Age’ dresses, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Pierre Cardin 1968 dresses made out of ‘Cardine’ fabric, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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In the 1970s, in response to the miniskirts of the 1960s, Cardin created the “long longuette” or maxi dress. An example of this longer silhouette can be seen below, exhibited at the Chicago History Museum’s 2012 show, “50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair.” The dress is a fall/winter look from 1970 and is made of double-faced wool and PVC. It was bought by the founder of Ebony magazine, Eunice Johnson, for the Ebony Fashion Fair, a runway show she created that traveled around the U.S. from 1958 to 2009, displaying high fashion for an African-American audience.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Pierre Cardin dress from the “50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair” exhibit at Chicago History Museum.</em></h6>
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The dress below is an example of a later 1970s Cardin piece. The 1970s brought more fluid materials and techniques to Cardin’s designs. A spiraling, rather than geometric, line began to be more noticeable, and Cardin became known for his frothy evening dresses of layered, printed chiffon.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">1970’s Pierre Cardin dress, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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Much like his clothing designs, Cardin’s jewelry designs looked to the future for inspiration. They tended to be large statement pieces with a sculptural quality.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">1970’s Pierre Cardin bracelet, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">PIerre Cardin 1972 necklace, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Pierre Cardin 1960s bracelet, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Pierre Cardin 1980s necklace, Musée Pierre Cardin.</em></h6>
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In 1977, Cardin launched an haute couture furniture line that translated his sculptural approach to fashion into furniture. He referred to the furniture as “utilitarian sculptures.” He used futuristic forms which were translated into furniture using traditional cabinet-making techniques.</div>
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Today, Pierre Cardin is 93 years old and still going strong. He continues to design for the Pierre Cardin label and owns the famous Maxim’s restaurant in Paris, as well as the Maxim’s brand. Cardin continues to look forward to the future. When Cardin was 87, he was quoted in the book Pierre Cardin: 60 Years of Innovation by Jean-Pascal Hesse as saying, “My destiny is tomorrow.”</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Passavant Cotillion 1953, Collection of the Northwestern Woman's Board</td></tr>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: firebrick;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">by Stuart Mesires</em></span></h6>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: firebrick;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">In addition to signaling the “holiday season,” December also signals “debutante season” </strong></span>in many cities throughout the United States. Debutante balls or cotillions are held this time of year from New York to San Francisco, and many places in between.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">In the second half of the 16th century, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the word “debutante” was adopted into English from the French when the queen began the custom of formally presenting eligible young women at court. Three centuries later, Queen Victoria gave the ceremony its present form with girls dressed in white and the official bow called a "curtsy.”</span></div>
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In the late 19th century, wealthy Americans began adopting many of the traditions of the Europeans. The custom of the debutante presentation was one of them. The coming-out ball was a way for young girls of a marriageable age to be presented to “suitable” young men and their families in the attempt to find an appropriate mate.</div>
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During World War I, Chicago had a famous quartet of debutantes, known as the “Big Four.” It included Ginevra King (1898–1980), Edith Cummings (1899–1984), Courtney Letts (1899–1995), and Margaret Carry (1899–1942). According to James L.W. West (author of <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The Perfect Hour</em>), the Big Four were described at the time as being “the most attractive and socially desirable young women in Chicago.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">Two members of the Big Four, Ginevra King and Edith Cummings, were inspirations for characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book</span><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: inherit;">The Great Gatsby</em><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">. King and F. Scott met when she was 16 and he was 18. There was an immediate attraction, and the two of them wrote letters back and forth for several years until King became engaged to another man who her family thought was a better match. F. Scott never got over King and based several characters in his books on her — most notably the character of Daisy Buchanan in</span><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: inherit;">The Great Gatsby</em><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">F. Scott met Edith Cummings, another member of the Big Four, through King and based the character of Jordan Baker in</span><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: inherit;">The Great Gatsby</em><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">on her. In 1923, Cummings won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Golf Open and appeared on the cover of</span><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: inherit;">Time</em><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">magazine — she was the first golfer and first female athlete to do so.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edith Cummings on the cover of Time in 1923</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">A turning point in the history of debutantes came with New York debutante Brenda Frazier in 1938. She was one of the “poor little rich girls” that the country had a fascination with during and immediately following the Great Depression. By her early teens, Frazier was a well-known society girl in New York who loved the nightlife. Her every move was documented in the press.</span></div>
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Her “debut” was a major event. She appeared on the cover of <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Life</em> magazine and was featured in magazine advertisements for soap, cars, and cigarettes. She was also a trendsetter. The strapless gown she wore for her debut became her signature look and was much copied. She also started a beauty trend with her powdered pale face, contrasting red lipstick and dark hair.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brenda Frazier on the cover of Life in 1938</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">In the 1940s and early 1950s, there was a shift away from privately sponsored debutante balls to larger debutante balls which benefited a charity or society. The Passavant Cotillion and Christmas Ball in Chicago was one of these. It was founded in 1949 and raised money for Passavant Memorial Hospital.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Passavant Cotillion 1949. Collection of the Northwestern Woman's Board.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">The inaugural Passavant Cotillion was held on December 23, 1949, at the Stevens Hotel on Michigan Avenue. It was a huge success, and the Passavant Cotillion continues today. Passavant Memorial Hospital is now part of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and the Passavant Cotillion is still an important source of support for the hospital, raising money for research, community service, education and enhancing patient care.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joan Peterkin photographed by Horst P. Horst in 1949.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">Above is a photo of Joan Peterkin taken by Horst P. Horst in 1949. Peterkin made her debut at the 1949 Passavant Cotillion and is pictured here wearing her custom-made gown by Christian Dior.</span></div>
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The cotillion dress became an integral part of being a debutante. Many debutantes had their dresses made by a dressmaker while others bought theirs. Designers such as Chanel, Schiaparelli, Dior, Vionnet, Charles James and Hattie Carnegie were known to have designed dresses for debutantes. Oscar de la Renta’s career as a designer was launched in 1956 when he designed a dress for the U.S. ambassador to Spain’s daughter, Beatrice Lodge, for her coming-out ball in Madrid.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beatrice Lodge being fitted in her debut gown by Oscar de la Renta in 1956.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">Debutante balls began to lose favor in the mid-1960s through the 1970s due to the rejection of social conformity that was popular during that time. The June 1966 issue of</span><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: inherit;">Town & Country</em><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">magazine featured New York debutante Alexandra Chace on the cover with the band The Rolling Stones.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June 1966 issue of Town & Country featuring debutante Alexandra Chace and the Rolling Stones</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">At the time, it was a revolutionary idea to feature a photograph of a dressed-up debutante with a “scruffy” rock group. It signaled the changing times and attitudes toward tradition. Chace wore a Staron silk dress trimmed in ostrich feathers and Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry. The issue featured a section inside where debutantes posed with celebrities who represented professional fields of work that they wished to enter. Actor Bob Holliday, photographer Jerry Schatzberg, actor Robert Ryan, and artist Andy Warhol were featured, among others.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mu mother and I at the Philadelphia Assembly Ball in 1987 where I made my debut.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">During the 1980s, participation in traditional activities that had been on the decline throughout the 1960s and 1970s experienced a strong resurgence. This included debutante balls. The change in attitude can be attributed to the return to more conservative values and traditions in the 1980s Regan-era.</span></div>
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Today, debutante balls have re-emerged as charity events and as a continuation of tradition, rather than as an introduction to society or a matchmaking opportunity. As Oscar de la Renta said in the book <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Debutantes</em>, “The modern debutante is more concerned with the perfect dress than the perfect mate.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am thrilled to share below my inaugural article for Classic Chicago Magazine - 'Schiap Shop'. Please check in monthly to read my column, Vintage Vantage and all of the other great columns and Classic Chicago news. A link to Classic Chicago Magazine can be found here: <a href="http://classicchicagomagazine.com/2015/10/31/vintage-vantage/">http://classicchicagomagazine.com/2015/10/31/vintage-vantage/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I recently returned from a trip to Paris where I had the opportunity to visit Maison Schiaparelli </span></strong><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">at 21 Place Vendôme</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; text-align: justify;"> — the Elsa Schiaparelli boutique. It was opened in 1935 and closed in 1954, but it was reopened in 2012, in the exact location where the original boutique had been. As a huge fan and collector of vintage Schiaparelli, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to see where it had all started and to get a glimpse of the new collections.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) was an Italian-born French designer. She and her rival, Coco Chanel, were regarded as the most prominent figures in fashion in the period between the two World Wars. Schiaparelli’s designs were worn by society ladies and Hollywood actresses. Her clients included the Duchess of Windsor, Daisy Fellowes, Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall, Millicent Rogers, and Mae West.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Schiaparelli defied the convention of her time by pursuing a more idiosyncratic style of fashion. She considered fashion to be art and was known to be as much of an artist as she was a dress designer. Schiaparelli often collaborated with the Surrealist artists of the 1930s, such as Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Jean Cocteau. Her longtime admirer Yves Saint Laurent once described her as “The fiery Italian intellectual who introduced </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the world of Dadaist and Surrealist art to the world of fashion.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Schiaparelli opened her salon in 1935. The interiors were originally designed by her friend Jean-Michel Frank, who also designed the Paris salon of Chicago-born designer, Mainbocher, on the Avenue George V. Notably, Mainbocher was the first American to open a couture house in Paris. </span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ground floor of 21 Place Vendôme was used as a boutique. It was called the “Schiap Shop.” One entered the perfume section of the shop through a black and gold bamboo birdcage designed by Frank in 1937. In later years, the birdcage was sold to a private collector, but the Maison Schiaparelli was recently able to reacquire it. It is now located on the fourth floor of the building where the collections are shown.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1937 Frank designed black & gold bamboo cage</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1e1e1e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;">Currently, over the fireplace in the boutique’s second floor salon, there is a collage that was designed for the Schiap Shop by Marcel Vertès in 1953. The collage is made up of images cut from fashion magazines of Schiaparelli’s most significant designs. The images are incorporated into a surreal landscape of dinosaurs and butterflies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e1e1e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;">Throughout the boutique, there are many examples of Schiaparelli’s artist collaborations: glasses designed by Man Ray in the 1930s; a powder compact from 1935 designed in the shape of a phone dial by Dali; and a dress from Schiaparelli’s famous 1938 circus collection made out of fabric printed with a design by Vertès.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Powder compact designed by Salvador Dali in 1935<br /></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">In Chicago, we are lucky to have an amazing example of an artistic collaboration between Schiaparelli and Cocteau housed at the Chicago History Museum. It is a very rare silk crepe dress, jacket and belt ensemble from 1937 — only three examples are known to exist. Cocteau created the design on the jacket that was then beaded and embroidered by the House of Lesage. The design features a woman’s head in profile. Her long, golden hair flows down the full length of the right sleeve, and her hand is holding a bundle of silver-colored ribbons. Just below the woman’s arm, the word “Jean” and a star are embroidered in pink thread. The ensemble was once owned by Chicago resident Elizabeth Fuller Goodspeed (1893–1980), known to her friends as Bobsy.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Goodspeed was at the heart of Chicago’s social and cultural scenes and was married to Charles Barney Goodspeed, a member of a prominent Chicago family. She was a patron of the arts, the President of the Arts Club of Chicago (1932 –1940), a writer and amateur filmmaker. Goodspeed often made trips to Paris, where she spent time with notable artists, writers, dancers and gallery owners. It was there that she met and </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">became friends with Gertrude Stein, who then visited Goodspeed in Chicago in 1934. It was Stein’s first trip to our city, spawning her strong relationship with Chicago.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even though the Schiaparelli line has been relaunched and is now being designed by Bertrand Guyon, the house is still looking back to Schiaparelli’s philosophy of art as fashion and the influence of artists on fashion. Here, we can see another Chicago connection. In the Schiaparelli Fall 2015 collection, colorful pieced fur jackets were featured on the runway. According to </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vogue</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">’s Dan Thawley, these jackets were inspired by Chicago artist Nick Cave’s Soundsuits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few of the L. L. Bean boat and tote bags from my collection.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">I have always had a sort of obsession with the L.L. Bean boat and tote bag. I love its sturdy construction, its adaptability, its classic style, and the fact that it can be monogrammed/personalized. I seem to never have enough of them. I even gave a boat and tote bag to each of my bridesmaids - monogrammed with their nicknames.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L.L. Bean catalog page from 1965 when the boat and tote was featured for the first time in its current form.</td></tr>
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Originally designed as an ice carrier, the bag was bought and used by people to carry other things as well. It really took off in the 1960s when the tote was made smaller and red and blue trim was added.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Page from an L. L. Bean catalog from 1978</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Imagine how thrilled I was the other day when I was flipping through a book that a friend gave me called, </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Beyond Chic</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> and saw the photo above of French stylist/designer Gilles Dufour’s Paris apartment and his collection of boat and tote bags! It made me feel much better about my obsession - so much so that I may have to peruse the Spring L. L. Bean catalog to see if there are any new </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">styles</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> that I should add to my collection....</span><br />
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<br />Ladybug Vintage Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932035611281032316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352220732680552408.post-74152719952808685502015-02-11T14:23:00.001-06:002015-02-11T14:24:55.727-06:00Getting Ready for the Year of the SheepFebruary 19, 2015 is the Chinese New Year and marks the beginning of the year of the Sheep or Ram. I thought that it would be fun to find some vintage baubles to celebrate the occasion.<br />
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You are the sign of the Sheep if you were born in: 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, or 2015.<br />
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People born in the year of the Sheep are artistic, creative, elegant, honest, warmhearted, timid and charming. They are also pessimistic, vulnerable, and disorganized.<br />
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Those born in the year of the Sheep do not handle pressure well but can find their own solution to a problem when given time.<br />
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Celebrities who are the sign of the Sheep include, Michelangelo, Mark Twain, Barbara Walters, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis, and Claire Danes.<br />
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If you are a Sheep, you are compatible with those who are the sign of the Pig and Rabbit but you should avoid people who are the sign of the Ox!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*All of the jewelry featured in this post is available through Ladybug Vintage. Email ladybugvintagemail@gmail.com for details and pricing.</span>Ladybug Vintage Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932035611281032316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352220732680552408.post-6869776156936980192015-02-03T13:28:00.001-06:002015-02-04T09:04:53.205-06:00Kenneth Jay Lane and his Ethnic Inspirations<br />
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Kenneth Jay Lane was born in 1930 in Detriot, MI. He founded his costume jewelry company in 1963. His designs were so popular that his initial collection at Saks Fifth Avenue sold out in one day. Lane's jewelry has been worn by Diana Vreeland, Jaqueline Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Diana the Princess of Wales. Lane has appeared in Andy Warhol films, was mentioned in a song by Lou Reed and appeared on numbers of Best Dresses Lists.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Kennedy wearing the now famous three-strand faux pearl necklace designed by Lane</td></tr>
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One of Lane's best known pieces is the three-strand imitation pearl necklace that was worn by Jacqueline Kennedy. In addition to the ladylike jewelry that he created, Lane was also known for the ethnically influenced jewelry he made.<br />
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One big influence was the Pre-Columbian jewelry from Central and South America that he saw in museum collections in Lima, Peru, Mexico City, and the Met Museum in New York.<br />
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He loved the pure gold that was used and the pieces' naturalistic forms which could be very simple or more complex and have the ferocious likeness of animal or birdlike gods.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kenneth Jay Lane 1970s Pendant Necklace</td></tr>
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Lane was inspired by many types of ethnic jewelry from all over the world. He sometimes found it difficult to pinpoint exactly where his influences came from.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kenneth Jay Lane 1970s Pendant Necklace </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kenneth Jay Lane 1970s Paisley Earrings</td></tr>
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This caused him to invent his own "tribes" and to create jewelry for them.<br />
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On page 70 of Lane's book, <u>Faking It</u> he said, "I have taken great liberties with these (ethnic) motifs and used them in or out of their original context, to create fanciful earrings, pendants, bracelets, and even rings. I hope that the gods of the Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas do not become angry with me for creating my own deities."</div>
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<br />Ladybug Vintage Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932035611281032316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352220732680552408.post-55774774823837482202014-08-14T09:05:00.000-05:002014-08-14T09:05:08.240-05:00Viva, Viva!Last week, I was thrilled to see an exhibition of the art of Viva Hoffmann at the Thousand Islands Arts Center in Clayton, N.Y. Viva Hoffmann is an artist, actress, and author and was one of Andy Warhol's Factory Girls in the 1960s.<br />
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Viva was born in Syracuse, N.Y. and spent her summers on Wellesley Island, N.Y. in the Thousand Islands. She came from a very strict Catholic family and was the oldest of nine children. Viva attended parochial school and the Catholic College, Marymount. After college Viva moved to Manhattan and rebelled against her strict Catholic upbringing. She worked as a model at the Art Student's League, became a regular at Andy Warhol's factory, and was featured in many of Warhol's films.<br />
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From an early age, Viva had a penchant for drawing. When she was just five years old her father (a renowned criminal defense lawyer) took her to court with him and had her draw courtroom portraits. She attended the Everson Museum School in Syracuse, N.Y. and during her Junior year of college she studied art at the Sorbonne in Paris.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dying Willow - Swiftwater Point, Wellesley Island, 1991 Viva Hoffmann</td></tr>
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Viva's painting style is that of the New York school of abstract expressionism - paint is applied rapidly and with force to the canvas in an effort to convey feelings and emotions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waterson's Marsh in Spring - Wellesley Island State Park, 1999 Viva Hoffmann</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Bridge Road - Wellesley Island, 2000 Viva Hoffmann</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rock Island Lighthouse, Viva Hoffmann</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking toward US Mainland shore from Swiftwater Point in Spring, Viva Hoffmann</td></tr>
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Viva is best know for her landscape paintings although she has also done a series of self-portrait icon paintings depicting herself as a Goddess. They are based on iconic Tibetan Palden Lhamo images.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Palden Lhamo, Goddess of Destruction over Swiftwater Point with Loui Nehez on Dragon, Viva Hoffmann</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">In these self-portraits, Viva portrays herself as a Goddess flying high above the Saint Lawrence River. The pictures are filled with personal symbolism.</span><br />
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The show at the Thousand Islands Arts Center runs until August 29th.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am a lover of vintage textiles and was excited to find this vintage jacquard coverlet while perusing the Cornwall Brother’s Store & Museum in Alexandria Bay, N. Y. Coverlets are decorative bed toppers that were at the height of their popularity from around 1820 - 1860. This one was designed by by Harry Tyler in 1839. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Tyler was a prominent weaver in 19th century Jefferson County, New York. He was born to British parents in 1801 in Connecticut. He eventually settled in Butterville, N.Y. in 1834 where he began his career as a weaver. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The bridal coverlets were inscribed with the name of the bride, her county of origin, and the year in which the coverlet was woven. This coverlet was made in 1839 for Mary Child of Jefferson County, N.Y. According to the Jefferson County Historical Society, “coverlets were an essential piece of every upper class bride’s ‘setting out’.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This Summer I am hoping to get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to see the Charles James exhibit before it closes in August. The Chicago History Museum put on an exhibition about James in 2011/2012 and ever since then, I have been obsessed by his amazing garment construction. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Charles James (b. July 18, 1906 - d. September 23, 1978) is known as “a designer’s designer”. He is an often over-looked fashion genius who was known for his incredible ability to “sculpt” garments. His approach to designing was much like that of an architect. He constructed garments which were so structured, they could practically stand on their own. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This illustration of James' "Four-Leaf Clover" ball gown details the gown's construction. The garment is constructed from thirty pattern pieces and has a four-layered skirt. Drawings by Bill Wilkinson from the 1982 book, <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The garments he created are often just as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside. James was such a perfectionist that if a garment had one stitch wrong, he would tear the entire piece apart and re-work it. Diana Vreeland is quoted as saying, “He would rather work and rework a beautiful dress ordered for a certain party than have that dress appear at that party.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">James had a strong Chicago connection. He was born in England to an English military officer, Ralph Haweis James and Chicago heiress, Louise Brega James. In 1924 James was expelled from the Harrow School in England and was sent to stay with his mother’s relatives in Chicago. In 1926 James opened a hat-making shop at 1209 N. State Street in Chicago under the name, Charles Boucheron. It was very successful with the wealthy, fashionable ladies of Chicago and he opened two more stores in Chicago before moving to New York City in 1928.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Not many examples remain of James’ hats. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has borrowed two hats from the Chicago History Museum for it’s current exhibition. The hats are pictured below. They date from 1928 and belonged to Mrs. H. Pauling Donnelley of Chicago who was a friend of James’ mother.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">James opened a store in Manhattan in 1928 and quickly moved on to designing apparel. James is best known for the constructed gowns that he created in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. He counted among his clientele, Marlene Dietrich, Babe Paley, Austine Hearst, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and </span>Millicent Rogers - his biggest supporter<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">. </span></div>
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Vintage Yves Saint Laurent and Christian LaCroix heart baubles for Valentine's Day. Available at space519 (http://www.space519.com).<br />
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The pieces were produced from the 1920s until today and include examples from Balenciaga, Valentino, Chanel, Dior, Miriam Haskell, Yves Saint Laurent, and many other one-of-a-kind runway pieces.<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">It is interesting that Berger has decided to collect costume jewelry as she is the daughter of a New York diamond dealer and the wife of a Mexican fine-jewelry designer.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Berger does appreciate fine jewelry, "But in fine jewelry, you're limited," she said. "The most fabulous, extravagant, the very baroque is fashion jewelry."</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">In a Wall Street Journal article written by Sara Clemence, Berger says that she spends 1/3 of her year searching for pieces for her collection. "When I travel, my first stop is always the market," she said. "There's always a march aux puces in every city in the world."</span></div>
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The exhibition runs until January 20, 2014. If you have the opportunity, run don't walk to get there!</div>
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Ladybug Vintage Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932035611281032316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352220732680552408.post-5543198796871966322013-08-09T09:14:00.000-05:002013-08-09T09:14:41.644-05:00Farewell to Alex Colville<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had never heard of the Canadian artist, Alex Colville until I went to the National Gallery of Canada a few days ago. There I was struck by his 1965 painting, <i>To Prince Edward Island</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">I immediately wanted to know who had painted it and when. I loved the stylized way in which it was realized and the way that the viewer </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is drawn into becoming</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> part of the scene. I couldn’t believe that I had never heard of Colville before. Upon doing a little research, I was surprised to learn that he had died only a few weeks before on July 16, 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Colville was born in 1920 in Toronto Canada. At the age of nine he moved with his family to Nova Scotia, Canada where he would live for the rest of his life. </span><span style="text-align: center;">Colville graduated with a degree in fine art in 1942 from Mount Allison University. In 1944 Colville was deployed to Europe as a war artist for the Canadian Infantry. In 1946 Colville returned to his alma mater where he would teach until 1963 when he felt secure enough to earn a living solely from painting. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alex Colville <i>Child & Dog</i> 1952</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colville's paintings have a sort of a Hopper-esque quality to them. He </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: center;">painted every-day scenes of people but there is a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">loneliness</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: center;"> to them - a sense of isolation. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alex Colville <i>Woman on a Ramp</i> 2007</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: center;">Mostly Colville's paintings are set in the maritime background of Nova Scotia. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: center;">At first glance they seem realistic but on closer inspection the forms are very simplified.</span><br />
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Colville's paintings can be found in many collections throughout the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, The Musee National D'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Gallery in Berlin, and the Museum der Moderner Kunst in Vienna.</div>
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I love the painting above titled <i>Family & Rainstorm</i>. It seems appropriate as summer starts to draw to a close. Farewell to Summer and farewell to Alex Colville.</div>
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Ladybug Vintage Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932035611281032316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352220732680552408.post-53092555365809609752013-06-08T17:40:00.000-05:002013-06-08T17:40:20.789-05:00Farewell to Esther Williams<br />
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Esther Williams, the legendary synchronized swimmer died in her sleep at age 91 on June 6.<br />
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She was best know for her stylized "aqua-musicals" in the 1940s and 1950s - a style that was invented just for Williams.<br />
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By age 16 Williams had already won three major swimming championships. She planned to swim in the 1940 Olympics but they were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II.<br />
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Williams was discovered by an MGM scout in 1941 and went on to sign a contract with the studio and to make 30 films with them - most of which featured extensive synchronized swim scenes.<br />
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Williams was perhaps best know for her 1952 film, "Million Dollar Mermaid". Million Dollar Mermaid became her nickname and was was the title of her 1999 autobiography.<br />
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When Williams first started making "aqua-musicals" the MGM studio costume department had very little experience making bathing suits. Stretchy lycra fabrics had not been invented yet and oftentimes wool was used in making the suits. They were so heavy that once Williams put on one of the studio designed suits and quickly sank to the bottom of the pool. Williams began to collaborate in designing the bathing suits with the MGM costume department. In 1948 Cole of California asked if Williams would endorse one of their new bathing suits that was made out if a revolutionary fabric called lastex. This new fabric made it so that zippers were no longer needed, it had a better fit, and was easier to navigate in water. Williams had to fight with MGM but was eventually allowed to endorse Cole's suit. At the time celebrity endorsements were unheard of and she became one of the first celebrities to endorse a brand.<br />
<br />Ladybug Vintage Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932035611281032316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352220732680552408.post-76976649508211498672013-06-04T13:07:00.000-05:002013-06-04T13:07:18.562-05:00Vintage at the 2013 CFDA AwardsThe 2013 CFDA awards were last night and as usual I am always looking for the vintage dresses. This year I was not disappointed. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I <u>loved</u> Tory Burch's vintage Chanel dress! The large leaf print was amazing and the purple colors of the dress looked beautiful on her.</div>
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Mary-Kate Olsen also wore vintage. It was at the other end of the spectrum from Tory's dress but no less amazing. Her dress was a vintage black, pleated Issey Miyake dress from the 1980s.</div>
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