Então, aquele livro que eu falei sobre estilos de rua. Eu escaneei alguma imagens, demorou bagaraio, mas vale a pena. Um livrinho bem maneirinho; O nome do livro é "Street Style" de um cara chamado Ted polhemus. Os Zooties Bikers Beatniks Teddy Boys Modernistas Rockabillies Surfers Os Mods Os…
Like the French Impressionist artists of Paris, the Beat writers were a small group of close friends first, and a movement later. The term “Beat Generation” gradually came to represent an entire period in time, but the entire original Beat Generation in literature was small enough to have fit into a couple of cars (at […]
Top of the watch list, if only for the hair and ‘fashions’. No seriously, Seberg, a thriller based on actress and civil rights supporter Jean Seberg’s persecution by the F.B.I looks like it’s worth…
Francoise Hardy’s flawless French style is off the charts—here’s how to make it your own.
In Los Angeles looking at the world
In the early 1950s, a young Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken arrived in Paris to begin his career as a photographer. By day he worked for Magnum, by night—inspired by Weegee’s photographs in Picture Post—Van der Elsken documented the emerging underground youth culture of the city’s Left Bank. In 1954, Van der Elsken compiled a volume of photographs Love on the Left Bank that followed a young Beatnik girl “Ann” through the gangs of bohemians, musicians and vagabonds who hung around the bars, clubs and flophouses of St Germain-des-Prés. Ann was in fact “played” by Vali Myers—an Australian artist, model, muse and associate of Jean Cocteau and Jean Genet, who Patti Smith later recalled as: ...the supreme beatnik chick—thick red hair and big black eyes, black boatneck sweaters and trench coats. As described on its first publication in 1956, Love on the Left Bank was “a story in photographs about Paris”—a freeform impressionistic tale of Ann and her life among the “young men and girls who haunt the Left bank”: They dine on half a loaf, smoke hashish, sleep in parked cars or on benches under the plane trees, sometimes borrowing a...
Back in college, Smith became a muse for Frank Stefanko after she caught his eye in a co-op in South Jersey by "mosey[ing] in like the bad guy walking into a saloon in an old Western movie," as he recalls.
Actress and model Vikki Dougan earned her nickname "The Back" due to her penchant for wearing strikingly low-backed dresses that accentuated her figure during the 1950s and 1960s. These distinctive outfits even inspired folk music group The Limelighters to pen a song about her, playfully imploring Dougan to "turn her back" on them. Dougan's journey
Fifty years ago, a new dance craze swept the world and changed for ever the way people move. Richard Williams, up on his feet when it first hit the dancefloor, celebrates the birth of a revolution
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Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, John Cale, and Ingrid Superstar at the Factory in 1966 by Larry Fink.
A Q&A with the English model Jill Kennington about her role in Blow Up, the art-house movie heard around the world.
