A toast to a Happy New Year, may there be better days ahead!!

 

Happy 74th Birthday to Diane von Furstenberg, December 31, 1946

 

Lucinda Hollingsworth is wearing a vivid pink hat of ostrich feathers mounted on net by Bernard Devaux for Pierre Cardin, photo by Tom Kublin, Harper's Bazaar UK, October 1958

 

Barbara Mullen in black and white tweed suit with a wide stand-away collar and a white felt hat by Pierre Cardin, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, October 1958

 

Barbara Mullen in bulky tweed overcoat with fullness falling from just below the waist, the neckline, a knotted circle, hat of white felt , by Pierre Cardin, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, October 1958

 

Barbara Mullen in black and white tweed suit with deep cape collar fastened by a black tweed rose, the dress is short-sleeved, straight and easy, black fox hat, by Pierre Cardin, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, October 1958

 

Model in bias black crêpe dress with a tricorne hem of black ostrich lifted to the back of the knee, bias blouson plunged down the back, by Pierre Cardin, coiffure by Carita, photo by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 1, 1965

 

Model is wearing a deep rounded cloche of white organdie with an embroidered down-curving brim by Pierre Cardin, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, June 1959

 

Model is wearing a white organdie hat with tiers of embrodered ruffles by Pierre Cardin, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, June 1959

 

Suzy Parker in charcoal and white herringbone tweed suit with a double-deck neck by Pierre Cardin, (male model is Robin Tattersall), photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar UK, September 1957

 

Denise Sarrault in coat of bitter-chocolate velours with a wrap-over collar of nutria by Pierre Cardin, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, September 1960

 

Model is wearing a white silk top, the back simply two bias triangles knotted over bare skin by Pierre Cardin, coiffure by Carita, photo by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 15, 1963

 

RIP, French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, December 29, 2020

The pioneering French designer passed away today at the American Hospital in Paris at the age of 98. 
 

Suzy Parker in polka-dot brown and white silk chiffon two-piece dress with its own attached neck scarf by Arbé, brown patent leather sandals by Delman, photo by Richard Avedon in Antigua, Harper's Bazaar, June 1962
 

Suzy Parker in beautiful white full-length chiffon dress, beaded in crystal and with floating panels by Rosalie Macrini, photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, June 1962

 

Suzy Parker in olive green wool knit tunic striped in bright red over tailored, tapered olive pants by Gina Paoli, sunglasses by Renauld of France, photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, June 1962

 

Suzy Parker in textured silk summer dress with a gray worsted flannel overblouse by Ellen Brooks, photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, June 1962

 

Suzy Parker in sea-shell white bias-cut silk tubular shift by Teal Traina, hat by Lilly Daché, earrings by DeMaria, photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, June 1962

 

Wishing all of you a very Happy, Healthy, and Peaceful Christmas and better days ahead in the New Year!

 

Remembering photographer Victor Skrebneski on his Birthday, December 17, 1929 - April 4, 2020
Clockwise from top left: Vanessa Redgrave, Karen Graham, Candice Bergen, Audrey Hepburn, Wilhelmina, Karen Harris, Phyllis Connor, Willow Bay, Victor Skrebneski.

 

Remembering fashion photographer Henry Clarke on his Birthday, December 16, 1918 - April 26, 1996
Clockwise from top left: Sophia Loren, Dovima, Veruschka, Raquel Welch, Dovima, Ivy Nicholson, Suzy Parker, Anne St. Marie, Henry Clarke by Irving Penn.

 

Happy 74th Birthday to Jane Birkin, December 14, 1946

 

Remembering the extraordinary Dovima on her Birthday, December 11, 1927 - May 31, 1990

 

Remembering fashion designer Adele Simpson on her Birthday, December 8, 1903 - August 23, 1995

 

Remembering photographer Saul Leiter on his Birthday, December 3, 1923 - November 26, 2013

 

Remembering photographer Guy Bourdin on his Birthday, December 2, 1928 - March 29, 1991

 

Remembering photographer Gordon Parks on his Birthday, November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006

 

Remembering photographer Jeanloup Sieff on his Birthday, November 30, 1933 - September 20, 2000

 

Remembering fashion designer Jacques Griffe on his Birthday, November 29, 1909 - June 24, 1996

 

Remembering photographer Gjon Mili on his Birthday, November 28, 1904 - February 14, 1984

 

Model is wearing an ostrich feather hat by Otto Lucas, turquoise and diamond ring and gold and silver compact by Boucheron, bracelets by Garrards, make-up by Max Factor, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, December 1957

 

Dany Bassenave is wearing Spanish inspired evening gown embroidered in red velvet worn with red velvet cloak by Lanvin-Castillo, photo by Georges Saad at the home of Comtesse Jean de Polignac, Paris, 1955

 

Dany Bassenave in wide skirt of purple taffeta topped with draped white chiffon and belted with wide moiré sash, by Lanvin-Castillo, photo by Philippe Pottier, 1956

 

Dany Bassenave in gala evening gown whose draped bodice is adorned with golden satin rose, which is the same material as the floor-length mantle, by Lanvin-Castillo, photo by Philippe Pottier, 1958

 

Nancy Egerton in coat-dress in Linton tweed, checked in two shades of Nasturtium by Matita,  cover by Vernier, Feb. 1959

 

Nancy Egerton in black velvet hat seductively veiled and spiked at the back with black velvet tulip by Dolores Model, photo by Michel Molinare, Harper's Bazaar UK, August 1961

 

Nancy Egerton is wearing a high-crowned pillbox in black velvet trimmed in front with a narrow matching bow by Otto Lucas, photo by Michel Molinare, Harper's Bazaar UK, August 1961

 

Nancy Egerton is wearing a charming wide-brimmed Breton finely stitched of red velvet with a brilliant satin bow by Otto Lucas, photo by Michel Molinare, Harper's Bazaar UK, August 1961

 

Nancy Egerton is wearing a necklace of pink and white pearls and earrings at Paris House, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, June 1960

 

Nancy Egerton's evening coiffure is designed by Alexandre Francke, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, July 1959

 

Nancy Egerton is wearing a "bow" of hair topped by a rose for evening by Evansky, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, July 1959

 

Nancy Egerton with her own unadorned hair, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, July 1959

 

Nancy Egerton in the "hairdryer hat", a transparent black bell of organdie gathered in the back in a black-leaved white-petaled rose by Rudolph, photo by Claude Virgin, British Vogue, 1958

 

Nancy Egerton's evening coiffure is designed by Alexandre Francke, Harper's Bazaar UK, November 1959

 

Nancy Egerton is wearing a green and white wool check hat with a soft crown impaled by a rosebud over a narrow stitched brim by R.M. Hats, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, February 1960

 

Nancy Egerton is wearing a brief bowler swathed round a short stove-piped crown and over the hair with turquoise silk jersey by Dolores at Harrods, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, February 1960

 

Nancy Egerton is wearing a cloche stitched in soft stone-colored check tweed with suède band by R.M. Hats at Harrods, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, February 1960

 

Nancy Egerton is wearing a hat by Otto Lucas, cover photo by Claude Virgin, Vogue UK, August 1958

 

Joy Weston in black wool dress by D'Avana by Kashmoor, black mink hat with white satin brim and jade velvet band by Otto Lucas, photo by Michael Williams, Harper's Bazaar UK, October 1960

 

Joy Weston in black silk and wool dress with draped V back by Marcus, mink hat with coffee satin band by Otto Lucas, photo by Michael Williams, Harper's Bazaar UK, October 1960