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Teenage Navajo Runaway

09/15/2010 in fashion, funtimes, inspiration | No comments

Here are some of the references Elizabeth Weinberg and I sent over to Tokion before we worked on a fashion editorial for their September issue. Turner and Erica Blumenthal styled it and our lovely models were Matthew Mosshart (Alison Mossheart from the Kills is his sis) and Tilda from Img.

The images are ultimately going to run elsewhere (ummmm long story!!), but for time time being… I thought it’d be fun to share what I was channeling.

We were going for images inspired by sixties documentary photography, in particular those of hippie encampments like the Mystic Arts Commune. We used bows and arrows by Fredericks and Mae, I created a teepee, painted axes and walking sticks, and covered the forest with toilet papered streamers. It all looked amazing!

Tilda Lindstam at IMG (one of our models)

Antique Navajo patterns. Reference for my teepee


Pippi Longstocking. My all time favorite muse


Bows by Fredericks and Mae. They were kind enough to loan me masks, a bow, and kites as well!


60′s psychedelic interiors and teepee inspired shelters. The book Spaced Out is good reference.


Nomadic fashions, fur, braids, lots of jewelry

My moodboard (including fashions by Rag and Bone, Suno, and D&G’s Fairisle looks)


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Buckminster Fuller

07/11/2009 in inspiration | No comments

My playground memories always involve swinging on geometric metal jungle gyms.
I would pretend to be Nadia Comaneci, blissfully unaware I was riding high on a Buckminster Fuller styled geodesic dome.

I’ve been drawing various buildings for some time now; be they half timbered styled buildings in Frankfurt, teepees in Northern California, Victorian and Federal style townhouses, or various castles (real and otherwise). But lately it seems non-traditional buildings, the kind from the late sixties and early seventies have been on the collective unconscious’ radar. Bucky, you’re a meme.

A good point of reference is the book Spaced Out
(many of the following images are from this book)


Leti and I went to the launch party for such a thing last year. Coupled with the Summer of Love exhibit at the Whitney, it was a good time to pretend you resided in a hippy dwelling up in Woodstock
or lived in Drop City : the first hippie commune to win Fuller’s Dymaxion Award.
















Dodeckahedron’s flickr provided some of these images.
Learn more about the book “Spaced Out” here
also check out Buckminster Fuller’s 1970′s book

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Spirit of 69

07/09/2009 in inspiration | No comments








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Pyramid Scheme

07/08/2009 in inspiration | No comments

thanks to tumblr. images found here and elsewhere:

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collect
dissolve
bohemianpunk
space crystal

fuck yeah occultism
the acid sweat lodge

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Marisa Berenson, Barry Lyndon

07/02/2009 in fashion, film, inspiration | 1 comment

This afternoon, James and I headed to the Met to check out the fantastic “Model As Muse” exhibit. Among the photography of Twiggy and Turlington by the likes of Bailey, Avedon, and Meisel were the portraits of Marisa Berenson, supposedly a sixties counterpoint to the leggy waifish doe-eyed likes of models like Penelope Tree. She looked so familiar and I couldn’t place her until… I realized she’s the girl from Kubric’s 1975 costume drama Barry Lyndon. Let’s get acquainted, shall we?

I would wear this and pretend it doesn’t look like a shower cap.

Very “I Dream of Jeanie” although it should be Kenneth Anger’s “Lucifer Rising.”

Please note this insane hairdo. It’s like Rapunzel meets Cousin It. Or a personal head-broom.


This seems more Cabaret-era

I think I have this dress

I need these eyelashes. How long would that take….

Oh, yeah, sorry. Back to the task at hand. Screen shots of Barry Lyndon.
Fans of Marie Antoinette, if they are prepared to sit through a longggg film will love the costume design, cinematography (in particular the wide angle shots, the natural lighting) and the epic rags to riches to rags narrative. Gotta say though, love Ryan O’Neil a lot more in Paper Moon. But that just might be me.

She looks a little weary here, but it’s tiring wearing all those hats.

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Drop Acid Not Bombs

06/11/2009 in inspiration | No comments

more photos here
altman photo

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The Power of the Flower

06/10/2009 in inspiration | No comments

Found some great images from the late sixties and early seventies protest images
Some of these are from Hip Gallery

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Celebrate the Sun

06/09/2009 in inspiration | 2 comments

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Nancy Kwan

06/06/2009 in inspiration, lust | No comments

Nancy Kwan was a fox.

I don’t know why, but I didn’t realize until today that Kwan is the girl from “The World of Suzy Wong,” and the model from Terence Donovan‘s photo of Vidal Sassoon’s famous bob. This image became, basically, the mod icon of the era. ANDDDD she’s the woman from the PEARL CREAM video. My mind just exploded.

I first encountered Suzy Wong in a “Sex Race and Representation” class years ago; it’s a film that inspires discussion about Orientalism, the exotic, the “Other.” Kwan plays the “classic” role of the hooker with a heart of gold and there are a lot of cringe worthy scenes ripe with Asian stereotypes. The film is definitely a product of its time, but also pushed some boundaries because I think she was the first famous (half) Asian actor in an American film out of America-before Asian roles were filled with white men and women playing dress up.

I’d like to find more photos and information on non-white sixties ladies. Time to do some research.

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Pauline Boty

06/05/2009 in inspiration | 2 comments

Pauline Boty was one of the original British Pop Artists. Judging from the scant information about her on the internet, not only was she artist but she also was a steady and stylish fixture in the 1960′s British Carnaby scene. She attended the Royal College of Art and palled around with David Hockney, Peter Blake, and fashion designers like Celia Birtwell. She even danced on shows like Ready Steady Go! and acted a bit in movies such as (my personal favorite) Alfie avec Michael Caine. It helps to be a fox.

Boty’s reputation may have slipped into relative obscurity, but she created some pretty cool paintings before she died in 1966. Just like Eve Hesse, she died super young from cancer, at 28.

I want to see “Pop Goes the Easel,” Ken Russell’s 1962 documentary on the British Pop Art scene. If you’ll recall, Russell shot the stylish deco-inspired film “The Boyfriend” that stared Twiggy.


Reference:
Colin Robinson
The Guardian
Writing Room
Art and the 60′s exhibit at the Tate

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Sister Corita Kent

06/04/2009 in inspiration | 1 comment

I want some affordable art for my apartment. A poster, an art print, a painted reproduction. It’s sort of daunting narrowing down all the images in mind to something I want to see daily. Nothing too obvious, too cliche, too everywhere.

I recently purchased two reproductions of Teorema and Contempt posters from Japan that look amazing. I will post pix after I frame them.

Began my morning trying to narrow down which era, style, artist, and image I’d want to call my own. Which led me to the 1960′s Pop Art archives of the internets where I discovered some unfamiliar names like the work of Sister Corita Kent.

Yes, a graphic designing silk screening type wizard nun. Cool, no?

reference:
Supercozy
Greg Cookland

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Marisol

03/27/2009 in artists, inspiration | No comments

I’ve been thinking about illustration as 3-dimensional object a lot recently. Not just art on products, but art on wooden shapes, paintings on toys, Calder’s circus, illustrator and painter as sculptor. Below are some images by the 60s pop artist Marisol. I like how her figures are relatively simple arrangements of cubes and, what appears to be found objects, combined with faces and clothing painted on flat surfaces. Very simple, childlike, playful, dada.

(MISSING IMAGE. BLAME FLICKR!!!)

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Secret Sixties Muses

02/09/2009 in fashion, inspiration | 1 comment

I own a lot of sixties teen and fashion magazines, but until tonight I never knew any model names beyond the obvious: Twiggy, Peggy Moffitt, Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree. I just stumbled upon Mini Mad Mod 60′s: an online archive filled with images of some of my favorite mystery muses. Several girls, like Lucy Angle or Jean White, I had clipped out and framed over the years.

Jean White, with her big eyes, Shirley Temple ringlets, and a Betty Boop styled expression is often styled in Great Gatsby themed outfits; perfect for the sixties-twenties moment that happened around ’68 or ’70.


Then there’s Lucy Angle who rocks one of the cutest bowl cuts I’ve seen. I used to bring her photo to hairdressers back when I attempted one. She appeared on some of my favorite Seventeen covers. For some reason she reminds me of Mia Farrow. No surprise, loooovvvveeeee her.


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oh, and by the way, there are some epic sixties fashion images on this live journal entry: ana-lee

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Who Are You, Polly Magoo?

09/15/2008 in fashion, film, inspiration | No comments


Watched William Klein’s “Who Are You, Polly Magoo” last night. There are plenty of scenes with interesting shots, memorable fashion moments inspired by Paco Rabane, and lots of cute girls in mini dresses. But all and all the film is a bit of a bore.


Some scenes, in particular the one involving “chimney sweeps,” plenty of ripped newspaper, and a mussed up Diana Vreeland inspired character, reminded me of the finale of Chytilova’s “Daisies.” And the whole premise and I suppose point of the film (a satricial and negative view of the “empty” fashion industry) reminded me of Chytilova’s first film about the modeling world entitled “Ceiling.”

Polly, our Brooklyn-born French expat channeling Twiggy, is cute, yes. But it’s hard to sit still for anything this long with all the bad dialog and boring subplots even with Peggy Moffit cameos and epic eyeliner. BUT! I’m posting some stills nonetheless.

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Psych Out

08/21/2008 in inspiration, music | 1 comment

I love album art from the mid to late sixties. That period in time where bands like the 13th floor Elevators were taking copious amounts of lsd and adding swirls, deco motifs, vibrating day-glo colors, and optical illusions to nearly everything.

Here are a few covers I’m particularly fond of.


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My bedroom

08/05/2008 in interiors, me | 2 comments

In September I’m hopefully moving out of Stuyvesant Town and into a pre-war apartment. I’ll sublet my brightly colored sixties bedroom so I don’t have to worry about my furniture and can start relatively fresh. I felt inspired by Todd Selby’s series of photographed interiors and figured I should document where I’ve been for the last few years before I leave it all behind.

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