Tuesday 27 August 2013

Beyond The Pale

Beyond The Pale Boutique, 1968.

Manageress, Jo Cruickshank, model, Chantey Mulville, owner, Peter Woodworth and model, Anthe Holt.

Sunday 25 August 2013

Katherine Carpenter and Barbara Bach

Katherine Carpenter and Barbara Bach model in 1966. Barbara Bach would go on to marry Ringo Starr.

Saturday 24 August 2013

Sharon Tate

"My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel."
-Sharon Tate

Sharon Tate in Paris, 1968. 

Friday 23 August 2013

At the Dance

Beautiful photo by Bruce Davidson, photojournalist and documentary maker of the 1960s civil rights movement.

Monday 19 August 2013

Andre Courreges

Andre Courreges, pioneer of the 'Space Age' look. Photoshoot in Paris, 1969.

Sunday 18 August 2013

The Italian Job

"It's a very difficult job and the only way to get through it is we all work together as a team. And that means you do everything I say."
-Charlie Croker, played by Michael Caine in The Italian Job. Directed by Peter Collinson, 1969.

Saturday 17 August 2013

Lord John

Warren Gold's Lord John shop, next door but one to John Stephen's His Clothes on Carnaby Steet.

Thursday 15 August 2013

Malcolm X

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
-Malcolm X

Malcolm X, 1961. Photo by Eve Arnold. 

Wednesday 14 August 2013

Tuesday 13 August 2013

Tuesday Weld

"As a teenager, I was a wreck. I drank so much I can't remember anything."
-Actress Tuesday Weld on her 'wild child' youth. 

Monday 12 August 2013

That is what you do

"I felt quite fraudulent because I am not a classic beauty, not now, not then. Like lots of models I felt insecure about the way I looked. We know too well that it's a lot to do with disguise and how you put yourself together. [It was like] being a piece of meat. They would discuss your body as though you were not there. But I was a model and that is what you do."
-Penelope Tree

Sunday 11 August 2013

Colleen Corby

Amercian model, Colleen Corby who was the cover girl for teen magazine, Seventeen fifteen times.

Saturday 10 August 2013

Psycho

“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” 
- Alfred Hitchcock

Psycho Poster, 1960

Friday 9 August 2013

Murray The K's Dancing Girls

Murray The K's Dancing Girls

American DJ, Murray The K bowling with The Ronettes.

Wednesday 7 August 2013

The 5 Point Haircut

"He was key to that whole look in the early sixties, that youthquake thing in London. The cut gave you a certain freedom. You weren’t chained to the salon and you certainly didn’t have to go and have it set with big rollers under a hair dryer for a couple of hours. He did it with a hand-held hair dryer so it wasn’t quite drip-dry, but it was remarkable."
- Grace Coddington on the creation of the famous Vidal Sasson 5 Point Haircut. 

Model, Grace Coddington (later creative director of US Vogue) and Vidal Sasson.

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Friday On Your Mind?

"Monday morning feels so bad,
Ev'rybody seems to nag me
Coming tuesday I feel better,
Even my old man looks good,
Wednesday just don't go,
Thursday goes too slow,
I've got Friday on my mind."

-Friday On My Mind, The Easybeats, 1966

Australia's premier Sixties pop group, The Easybeats. 

Monday 5 August 2013

Sunday 4 August 2013

Hyde Park Festival, 5 July 1969


The Rolling Stones headlined The Hyde Park Festival in July, 1969. The free festival was The Stones first public performance in 2 years and was originally intended as a gig to introduce new guitarist, Mick Taylor. Former Stone Brian Jones died 2 days before the concert, meaning it transformed into more of a memorial performance. Mick Jagger read a short eulogy followed by some verses from Percy Shelley's Adonais. After this hundreds of white butterflies were released.

"Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep
He hath awakened from the dream of life."

- Adonais, Percy Shelley. 

Hyde Park Festival, 5 July 1969

Saturday 3 August 2013

John Bates

Fashion designer, John Bates experimented with op-art fashion in the Sixties, with black and white bold contrasting shapes and styles, although he stuck to classic silhouettes and cuts.

He was also famous for designing the black leather outfits worn by Diana Rigg in The Avengers and the dresses worn by Julie Christie in the film, Shampoo. He also introduced some of the shortest mini dresses in the early sixties, trouser suits in 1962, string vest dresses in 1963, striped tube dresses with matching stockings and the 'Bikini Dress' which had a top and bottom halves, joined with transparent netting.

Jean Shrimpton models John Bates, for Vogue, 1966.

I believe in everything...

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?” 
- John Lennon

Fan photo of John Lennon leaving EMI in 1969.

Friday 2 August 2013

Alamac Ad

 "Where ever you go this weekend - enjoy it."

Alamac Knits advert from 1967.

Alamac Fabrics was founded in 1946 and is still making fabrics today!



Thursday 1 August 2013

Marianne

“Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.” 
- Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull, photo by jean marie périer, 1966.