INSPIRATION

Lillian Gish's passport photograph

WANTED SUMMER 2012

Céline

Escarpins Multiples en chèvre velours noir, prix sur demande.

MUSICAL : 42nd Street (1933)

42nd Street is a 1933 American Warner Bros musical film 

directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. 

The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics).

 Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!

Vintage PIN-UP

1960's FRANCE

PIERRE ET GILLES Autobiographie en photomatons

Vaudeville

Fascinating Photos of 19th Century Vaudeville and Burlesque Performers: Eliza Blasina, 1890. 

From the Charles H. McCaghy Collection of Exotic Dance from Burlesque to Clubs. 

Courtesy of Ohio State University, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute

Bird Print-1870's -UK

LOOK OF LOVE: EYE MINIATURES FROM THE SKIER COLLECTION

This stunning exhibition explores the little-known subject of “lover’s eyes,” hand-painted miniatures of single human eyes set in jewelry and given as tokens of affection or remembrance. 

In 1785, when the Prince of Wales secretly proposed to Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert with a miniature of his own eye, he inspired an aristocratic fad for exchanging eye portraits mounted in a wide variety of settings including brooches, rings, lockets, and toothpick cases.

With over 100 examples, the collection of Dr. and Mrs. David A. Skier of Birmingham is the largest in the world. This exhibition offers an unprecedented look at these unusual and intriguing works of art.

Louis Wain (1860 – 1939)

Louis Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) 

was an English artist best known for his drawings,

 which consistently featured anthropomorphised 

large-eyed cats and kittens.

 In his later years he suffered from schizophrenia, 

which, according to some psychologists,

 can be seen in his works. ( From Wikipedia )