Influences

Jayne had set a task to be done for next week which was to produce a power point of visuals of our influences, this would go into our personal planning files and would show Jayne a bit more insight to what makes each of us tick. Also this will help to prepare for interviews and jobs in the future. I will do mine tonight and hopefully not make it too long as i have alot of influences and passions in my life. 

Mary-Kate Olsen

A great influence to me as i have loved her style for along time. I adore how elegant and sophisticated she makes her laid back vintage attire look. Now having her own label (which i only dream of owning one piece some day) has made quite a success of her self and i not only admire her ambition and drive for fashion but that she is a very intellectual woman too.

Luella Bartley

Geek Chic SS08

About the Designer: Luella Bartley is a British Designer known for her quirky collection of Brit-inspired clothes. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, she became a journalist for The Evening Standard, a leading U.K. newspaper, and then moved on to become a fashion writer for British Vogue. Luella then launched her own fashion label in 1999 with a capsule collection of clothes at a friend’s apartment. 12 months later, she was crowned Britain’s Young Designer of the Year and she has been unstoppable ever since. Boldface fans of her quirky style range from Foxy Brown and Christina Aguilera to Reese Witherspoon and Cate Blanchett. Her designs are an unofficial uniform for supermodels like Gisele, Carmen Kass, Maggie Rizer and Kate Moss.

Vogue

'Today I'm wearing' would have to be my favourite part of vogue.com i love to look at blogs to see what the general public are wearing but to be able to see what celebrities are wearing on a day to day basis is really inspiring. 

This month it's Marina from Marina & the diamonds showing her daily choice of attire. 

'Street Chic' really inspires me to try different fashions. Here is an example of a 'Street Chic' i adore and that would definitely wear.

Pin up

Peter Driben was one of the most prolific pin-up artists of the 1940's and 50's with his work gracing the covers of a plethora of girlie magazines.

Peter Driben with his wife, Louise.

Although both Alberto Vargas and Gil Elvgren have extensive catalogues of work, neither came close to the output of Driben...


His career was not limited to magazine covers, he also worked in advertising and for Hollywood, perhaps his most famous work being the original posters and publicity artwork for The Maltese Falcon. Peter Driben was also a close friend of publisher Robert Harrison, and in 1941 was contracted to produce covers for Harrison's new magazine Beauty Parade. Driben went on to paint covers for all of Harrison's magazines including Eyeful, Titter, Wink, Whisper and Flirt, often having as many as six or seven of his covers being published every month.

Gil Elvgren

 'Weightly problem' 1962

Gil Elvgren was one of the most important and best loved pin-up artists of the twentieth century.

Gil Elvgren...the Norman Rockwell of cheese-cake.

His heroines are often caught in humorous but distressing situations. His exquisite oils of gorgeous girls-next door their skirts often blowing up to reveal lovely nylon-clad legs rival his mentor Haddon Sundblom's "Coca-Cola" Santas for sheer nostalgic pleasure...

60's Fashion Icons

Edie Sedgwick

Edie ripped up the rule book and created a new, fascinating style of her own which completely turned the 1960's upside down.
Her dynamically different sense of style came from spending her early year's studying art in Cambridge which followed to her moving to New York and becoming Andy Warhol's muse and one of the most famous "Factory Girls". Her style was unlike anyone else's before her. She was known for her large sweeping earrings, pointed high heel shoes, leopard prints, black tights, dramatic eye make-up and her pixie short bleach blonde hair.


Edie was a 1960's socialite and had every girl of her time wanting to look just like her as soon her fame arose. Her 15 minutes of fame were without doubt a well spent 15 minutes that reset the rules of fashion. Fashion today is still a reflection of what Edie Sedgwick introduced to the world of those years ago.Pointed high heel shoes are still an essential for every girl. Edie was the first to promote the shoe in an iconic and trendy way, just like shoulder sweeping earrings (also known as statement earrings). These great fashion accessories have recently done a major come back on the catwalk and now on the high street and it seems that every girl is running out buying the biggest pair of statement earrings they can find which again, Miss Sedgwick herself initially brought to the world of fashion.

Brigitte Bardot

Bardot was also known as BB which was a knick name given to her. Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934, in Paris, France. Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Her mother was 14 years younger than Brigitte's father and they married in 1933. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance, and she proved to be very adept at it. By the time she was 15 Brigitte was trying a modeling career, and found herself in the French magazine "Elle". Her incredible beauty readily apparent, Brigitte next tried films.

Capitalizing on her success in French films, she made her first US production in 1953 in Un acte d'amour (1953) with Kirk Douglas, but she continued to make films in France. Brigitte's explosive sexuality took the US by storm, and the effect she had on millions of American men who hadn't seen a woman like her in a long, long time--if ever--was electric. took the US by storm, her explosive sexuality being unlike anything seen in the US since the days of the "flapper" in the 1920s. rise to the phrase "sex kitten" and fascination of her in the US consisted of magazines photographs and dubbed over French films--good, bad or indifferent, her films drew audiences--mainly men--into theaters like lemmings. 

In 1965 she appeared as herself in the American-made Dear Brigitte (1965) with James Stewart (she only appeared in one scene). Just before she turned 40, Brigitte retired from movies after filming L'histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise (1973). She prefers life outside of stardom. While it enabled her to become internationally famous, it also carried with it annoyances. It wasn't anything for her to have "fans" enter her house or wander around the grounds of her home in the hopes of getting a glimpse of her or to take something that belonged to her. Paparazzi constantly hounded her with their cameras. She has been so soft-hearted that some people even have taken advantage of her generosity. After her life in the spotlight, Brigitte went on to become a leading spokesperson for animal rights and started the "Foundation Brigitte Bardot" dedicated solely to that cause. Her work in that realm is, perhaps, far greater than any film she could have made.