T-straps and lashes

These T-straps are just so enchanting. Bally, of course, some of the best shoe ads the world has ever seen.



An ad for Salon du Pret a Porter....wonderful lashes.



This could very well be Bebe Buell, one of the most promising models of the early 70s. She, instead, devoted her life to punk rock and her daughter, Liv Tyler. She could have been one of the best models, I think, she photographed so well. Anyway, I'm not even 100% it's her in this Wella ad.



One of the few great editorial shots found in this magazines. The coat is by Kay Cosserat.

Before there was Photoshop...

...there was still retouching. And sometimes, it went very wrong. Take, for instance, this merry vacation in Venezuela editorial published in 1976. The otherwise excellent photographer Barbieri has participated in a lengthy atrocity featuring sharks, snakes, flying orchids and what have you. A sorry sight, with one redeeming quality, namely the image beneath this lamenting paragraph, gorgeous with a plastic mask, despite the presence of the crocodile.



What to say...


Valditevere ad.


Lovely, peaceful, YSL ad.

You don't want to meet this girl in a dark alley

Outstaring anyone is Carrie Nygren, 1976.



Janice Dickinson in all red.

Hang on to your marbles

How come the vintage jewelery often looks like the stuff you'd sell your soul for?

Stones fighting for attention on the hands of some lucky lady in 1960.


1976

1972

A hat means so much

Apollonia van Ravenstein sporting a fine one in 1976.

In style 1976