The Paris Boutique of Yé -Yé Girl Sylvie Vartan 1967
Yé-Yé girl Sylvie Vartan photographed at her Paris boutique in august 1967, where she would spend two to three afternoons per week working when she wasn't busy performing or recording. Sylvie was...
View ArticleRock Buster 1970
I purchased this lp sometime in the late 90s, in the second hand section of a record shop in Dublin called 'The Secret Book & Record Store', so called because although it is located just off one of...
View ArticleCosak is Orbiting Course as Planned 1967
Feel the great ship steady beneath your feet. Out there across the cold reaches of space the moon hangs motionless. You are on course. Forget the computations. Concentrate on Cosak. Cosak is new. A...
View ArticleOld England Watches - 1967
Ah, Google translate..you've let me down badly on this one! My attempts to decipher this Twen feature and turn it into some form of cohesive english proved to be both frustrating and tiresome..to the...
View ArticleKnockout Fashion Shoes 1970
Norvic top trends..get up and go shoes that love the lively life you lead! Town-smart styles with squared-off toes and chunky heels. Stylish with straps, flaps and buckles. Smooth and subtle shades....
View ArticleDressing in Your Element 1967
Travelers heading for the sun can now get added mileage out of their horoscopes. An ascending interest in all things astrological has hit the fashion world. The Horoscope of Fashion currently underway...
View ArticleUndercolour Agent 1967
Oh! Oh! 7 exciting colours have just entered your secret life! Cool colours...hot colours..zingy colours. Here is Lovable's wonderful new colour co-ordinates concept. In Hot Pink, Cherry, Tangerine,...
View ArticleThe Fool and Apple Boutique 1968
I'm sure anyone who is interested in The Fool Design Collective will most probably have already seen these images of Apple boutique reproduced online time and time again via Tumblr and Pinterest etc....
View ArticlePeter Max Funbrella 1970
You'll be swingin' in the rain with this original Peter Max Funbrella - designed exclusively for Right Guard. Wild colors. Groovy designs. 100% vinyl. $7.95 value - yours for only $3.95 with proof of...
View ArticleFoale & Tuffin 1969
Wrap-around dress, 10gns., trousers, 6gns., by Foale & Tuffin. Jewellery from Ken Lane. Hair by Oliver at Leonard's. Slumberland bed, £68 19s. 6d. Sheepskin "Cuddle Cover' by D. Macpherson &...
View ArticleParis In The 70s
This is Paris, Spring '70, though to the uninitiated it might look more like the Wild West than Right Bank. Some designs are familiar, some so beyond the fringe as to pass without comment, and some so...
View ArticleMy Sin 1968
My Sin, a most provocative perfume, originally created by the mysterious Madame Zed for the house of Lanvin in 1924. LINKS...
View ArticleLinweave Tarot - The Original Artwork 1967
I always enjoy reading comments on the blog but every now and then a really interesting one turns up, I was particularly intrigued to hear from Kenneth O'Connell recently regarding the Linweave Tarot...
View ArticleIllustrations by Graham Rogers - Plexus 1970
IMAGE CREDITSAll images scanned by Sweet Jane from PLEXUS issue No. 34, April 1970. Cover art by Graham Rogers, all additional...
View ArticleDolly Clothes For Dolly Birds 1967
A dolly twosome. Left: Miss Polly dress in a Victoriana style in pale blue and white Tricel, price £4 17s. 6d. Right: smock-type Dacron dress by Simon Massey, price 89s. 11d. Shoes by Gaby, 79s,...
View ArticleIf You Want to Get Ahead, Get a Cap! 1966
Youthful Caprice for CapsIn the city, at the beach, on all sorts of indoor and outdoor larks, the young are wearing caps this summer. Not just any...
View ArticleJewel Personality 1968
IMAGE CREDITSAll images scanned by Sweet Jane from QUEEN magazine 8th may 1968. Photographs by John Hedgecoe. Model Kellie Wilson....
View ArticleItalian Fashion Illustration 1971
A few of my favourites from a six page article about Italian fashion illustration, originally published in Gebrauchsgraphik International Advertising Art in February 1971. These type of illustrations...
View ArticleCourtelle 1967
IMAGE CREDITS Image scanned by Sweet Jane from Elle Magazine (France), 17 October 1967.
View ArticleBillion Dollar Look 1967
Put it in your pocket: a cowled coatdress in gold-bar yellow. About $40, Alder stockings, shoes by Et Cetera. Dress made of wool loomed in America, by Real Jrs.Slot seaming and flashes of white make a...
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