authentic short video with 1930s Futuristic Fashion Predictions. the announcers voice is great. classic.
“Amusing predictions by american fashion designers from the 1930s of what the well-dressed man and woman would be wearing in the year 2000.”
every day lately working at justinharder.la i see this cover on the shelf; i ♥ it. she looks rather alienesque. so passing by it via one of my fav eyecandy tumblogs, just thought i’d reblog…
random note. miss gwen went to my rival high school. i believe she played water polo. i hated that one band she was in. but she herself is good. no, great. gotta love the women who always sport the reddest of red lips.
:via l-o-l-i-t-a {who post the most tasty pics & tickles my inner dirty old man, m*}
& i’m listening to this totally rad 80s music video parody on funnyordie.com thanks to, once again, ginbin.
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs
1913–2008
October 26, 2008–March 1, 2009 | Hammer Building
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008 is the first major exhibition to bring together the magazine’s historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs. The exhibition explores the ways in which photography and celebrity have interacted and changed, with portraits from the magazine’s early period (1913–1936) displayed in conjunction with works from the contemporary Vanity Fair (1983–present). The Los Angeles presentation, which is sponsored by Burberry, will be the only U.S. stop on the exhibition’s international tour. Photographers to be represented include Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Julian Broad, Imogen Cunningham, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Mary Ellen Mark, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber.
Curators: Terence Pepper, curator of photographs, National Portrait Gallery, and David Friend, editor of creative development, Vanity Fair. Curator at LACMA: Charlotte Cotton, photography.
A collaboration between Vanity Fair and the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sponsored by
Vanity Fair is a registered trademark of Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.
Edward Steichen, A Much Screened Lady—Gloria Swanson, 1924 (detail),© Condé Nast Publications Inc./Courtesy George Eastman House.
Nickolas Muray, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Joan Crawford, Santa Monica, 1929, Vanity Fair, October 1929, © Condé Nast Publications Inc./Courtesy Condé Nast Archive.
Hours
LACMA is open every day except Wednesdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Monday 12 noon–8 pm Tuesday 12 noon–8 pm Wednesday CLOSED Thursday 12 noon–8 pm Friday 12 noon–9 pm Saturday 11 am–8 pm Sunday 11 am–8 pminterview with diane pernet from fashion week 2008
