Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Cecil Beaton Scrapbook


This passed through a couple of weeks back now, Cecil Beaton's 1937 scrapbook, Enjoy!

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Sarah Moon - Dansez Dansez


Paris. Solitaires Intempestifs. 2002. First Edition. Oblong 8vo, 60pp. Raw card boards with elastic band as issued. Concertina format. Beautifully printed Black & White plates. Text in French. More images available on request.. Hardcover. Book: Fine. .

Very amazing project. Dance choreography shot by Sarah Moon with Garms by Comme, Lacroix, Sylvie Skinazi (all made especially for ballet and dance) for pieces by Merce Cunningham, Blanca Li etc. Great texts (in french). Pretty special!




Friday, 28 September 2012

Felt in Colour





Taken from Foxtrol Echo Lima Tango, a fanzine about Felt. (Second printing)

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Azzedine Alaia



Alaia eating his tea in 1989. He was no slouch in the kitchen.

Thursday, 20 September 2012

On Manon 1974-77

Astounding book from Swiss artist Manon, covering her most interesting period of 1974-1977.

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Rockers Style


Great book full of photographs taken on set and around 70's Kingston during the filming of the cult 'Rockers'. Surely by accident the father of countless style source books. Tip!

Thursday, 16 August 2012

Stephen Willats / Doppelganger

Wonderful little project from Willats- where he takes 3 people, and builds a portait of them through the objects around them and places they go. It's a super book, and a deceptively simple cultural artefact.

Thursday, 9 August 2012

Seuss / Beat in Liverpool


Another killer from Seuss, its 1965, and he's in Liverpool covering the beat scene..

Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Bruce Weber - Men & Women - Images from Nicole


This is amazing. Bruce Weber's first (of sorts) book, shot on Gilgo beach NY for Nicole. Very tricky to turn up. 100 pages of amazingness. Here are some of them...

Thursday, 2 August 2012

The Ama - Mermaids of Japan


This is a pretty fascinating one- A book on the Ama divers of the Izu peninsula.

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Seventies Sonia Rykiel




Some lovely Rykiel here from 1976, of course with Marie Helvin..

Friday, 27 July 2012

Max Natkiel - Paradiso Stills



Some favourite spreads from Natkiel's cult document of 80's dutch youth culture.

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Karl Lagerfeld and Chloe


Karl Lagerfeld shot by David Bailey in 1975 for a Chloe Special. Oh- and of course, with David Bailey's new wife Marie Helvin.



Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Marisol Escobar




One cool as hell cat. Shown here is some of her work from the 1968 Venice Biennale.

Saturday, 14 July 2012

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Rococo and Co. / 1985




More 'Jill' amazingness, this time with Caroline Baker on styling duties.

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Bodymap

Think this came from an issue of Jill, circa '84, before it flew off the shelf and into the pocket of a collector. A nice 6 page special on Stevie Stewart and David Holah's legendary Body Map. According to a couple of people who were around in the 80's, for a few years Body Map was everywhere. Surely by now a retrospective is in order..