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Jane Fonda, 1963

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Mia Farrow by Bob Willoughby

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Mia Farrow

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Mia Farrow on the set of ‘A Dandy in Aspic’, 1967. Photo by Bill Eppridge.

Richard Avedon and Sophia Loren

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Richard Avedon and Sophia Loren at a photoshoot in New York City, 1966

Veruschka in the sun

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Paris, 1968

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Sharon Tate at a cafe in Paris, 1968

Beauty: Françoise Hardy

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1967

Premiere: Lauren Hutton and Richard Gere at the premiere of 'American Gigolo', 1980

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Donna Summer

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In Memory

Ciao

Life: Marlene Dietrich

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Marlene Dietrich, photo by Milton Greene, 1952

CBS Studios

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New York, 1970, the year the break-up of the Beatles was announced.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Crawford

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Vanity Fair, 1929

From Here to Eternity

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Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr, 1953

Famous Fashion Quotes

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"Elegance is the balance between proportion, emotion, and surprise." Valentino

"Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered." Giorgio Armani

"In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do." - Gianni Versace

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.”Yves Saint Laurent

“Fashion fades, style is eternal.”Coco Chanel

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” Oscar Wilde

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Paris, August / 1956

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Suzy Parker wearing chiffon dress in two shades of pink, beautifully draped to one side with wide satin scarf also in two shades of pink by Pierre Balmain, photo by Richard Avedon at Cafè des Beaux-Arts, Paris, August 1956

French actress Catherine Deneuve in her Morgan roadster in 1967

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Song: Elvis Presley / Can't Help Falling in Love

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Elvis Presley's version of the song, which topped the British charts in 1962, has appeared in numerous other films, including Coyote Ugly and Walt Disney's Lilo and Stitch. The single is certified by the RIAA as a Platinum record, for US sales in excess of one million copies. In the United States, the Elvis Presley version of the song peaked at number two on the pop chart and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart for six weeks. During Presley's late sixties and 1970s live performances, the song was performed as the show's finale. Most notably, it was also sung in the live segment of his 1968 NBC television special, and as the closer for his 1973 Global telecast, "Aloha from Hawaii". A version with a faster, more modern arrangement was used as the closing for Presley's final TV special, "Elvis in Concert."

"Can't Help Falling in Love" is a pop song originally recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley's publishing company. It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss. The melody was based on "Plaisir d'Amour" but with a different time signature. It was featured in Elvis Presley's 1961 film, Blue Hawaii.
From: Wikipedia

New Work by Tanya Ling

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Tanya Ling
Nina Ricci A/W 2012
March 2012
Mixed media on paper
42 x 29.7 cm
01862

Other works available from Ling's International Ready-to-Wear Series at: http://www.fashionillustrationgallery.com

Elvira Leonardi Bouyeure: Biki

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Maria Callas and Biki, Milan, 1968
Biki, was the first of the previous generation of fashion designers to design ready-to-wear garments.

Happy Easter!

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Angela Howard and Wilhelmina, 1960

Happy Easter To All My Readers! Thank you!

Paris 1962

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Paris 1962 by Tom Palumbo

The King of Paparazzi: Rino Barillari

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""War is war!" is the battle cry of one of the most famous photographers in the world, otherwise known as "The King of Paparazzi."

Story : http://www.rinobarillari.com/

Books: Une Française à Hollywood / Leslie Caron

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Leslie Claire Margaret Caron.

An unconventional beauty who specialized in waif-like roles in her early career, Leslie Caron was an actress and dancer who rose to fame in the 1950s in such acclaimed musicals as "An American in Paris" (1951) and "Gigi" (1958). Caron also projected considerable warmth and charm in straight dramas, which led to a successful career outside of musicals, including Oscar-nominated turns in "Gaby" (1958) and "The L-Shaped Room" (1963). Her Hollywood star faded somewhat in the late 1960s and 1970s, though she was active in European productions, where she was well utilized as elegant older women. Caron was still active in the 1990s and early 2000s, enjoying substantive roles in several well-regarded films, including "Damage" (1993), "Chocolat" (2000) and one of the final Merchant-Ivory productions, "Le Divorce" (2003). Her effortless class and grace, both onscreen and off, especially in the face of a high-profile divorce case in 1965, were at the center of her enduring popularity.

Thank Heaven: A Memoir

Born Leslie Claire Margaret Caron in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France on July 1, 1931, she was prepared for a career in dance from an early age. Father Claude was a chemist, while mother Margaret, an American and former dancer, who introduced her daughter to ballet at the age of 10. The Nazi occupation of France forced her to flee to Cannes, but she returned after the war, and by the age of 16, was performing in the Ballets des Champs Elysee, where Gene Kelly saw her in a production of "La Recontre." The Hollywood icon was moved to meet Caron backstage after the performance, but intense antipathy from her fellow dancers had forced her to flee the theater. Three years later, Kelly would bring her to instant stardom when he cast her as his love interest and chief dance partner in what many considered his greatest film, "An American in Paris" (1951).

The film led to a contract with MGM and more roles in films. Much of Caron's early movie career was devoted to musicals, which made excellent use of her ballet training and endearingly girlish screen persona. She proved a perfect partner for Fred Astaire in "Daddy Long Legs" (1955) and an ideal Cinderella in "The Glass Slipper" (1955), but Caron found screen musicals physically taxing and began to study acting. Gradually, she became known for films that required little or no dancing at all; she earned her first Academy Award as "Lili" (1953), a naïve country girl who falls for a self-pitying puppeteer (Mel Ferrer). With 1958's "Gigi," Caron is Colette's heroine, a young girl trained to become a courtesan by her aunt (Isabel Jeans) and grandmother (Hermione Gingold), which was her final appearance in a major Hollywood musical. In it, she did no dancing at all, and her singing voice was dubbed by Betty Wand. Both films remained enduring classics decades after their release, and helped to cement Caron's status as one of the select performers who came to fame as part of the Hollywood musical's heyday.

By 1956, she had already been married twice - once to meat packing heir George Hormel, and later to British theater legend Peter Hall - and sought more substantive roles. The decline of the musical in the late 1950s provided her with the exit she sought, and Caron was free to pursue straight dramatic and comedic roles. Again, she found success almost immediately; 1961's "Fanny" earned multiple Academy Award nominations for its sweeping story about a young sailor torn between his desire for adventure and his love for a young woman (Caron). Two years later, she earned her second Oscar nomination as a young unmarried mother in Bryan Forbes' drama "The L-Shaped Room" (1963). In 1964's "Father Goose" she was well-matched opposite Cary Grant as a French schoolmistress who must rely on his gruff coast-watcher to evade enemy forces during World War II.

But Caron's film appearances grew fewer and further between by the mid-1960s. Her divorce from Peter Hall in 1965 was tinged with scandal when it was revealed that she had been involved in an affair with Warren Beatty; the actor was later required by a London court to pay legal fees for his part in the dissolution. The news did little good for their 1966 film collaboration, "Promise Her Anything." But she remained active throughout the seventies, where she was called upon to play elegant older women of means. Her best efforts during this period were in Francois Truffant's "The Man Who Loved Women" (1977) and the miniseries "QB VII" (ABC, 1974), though she earned notices for her full-blooded performance as silent film star Alla Nazimova in Ken Russell's atrocious biopic "Valentino" (1978), starring Rudolf Nureyev.

Television on both sides of the Atlantic kept Caron busy throughout the 1980s, most notably in the miniseries "Master of the Game" (CBS, 1987) and a guest role on "Dynasty" (ABC, 1981-89); she also returned to the stage in productions of "On Your Toes" and "One for the Tango," and at 57, performed alongside Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov in a 1988 New York gala for the Paris Opera Ballet. The 1990s saw Caron in some of her best film roles since the 1960s; she was Juliette Binoche's mother in Louis Malle's drama "Damage" (1992), while the HBO drama "Last of the Blonde Bombshells" saw her as the former bass player for an all-female swing band who left the group in World War II to join the French resistance. Lasse Hallstrom's "Chocolat" (2000) reunited her with "Bombshells" star Judi Dench and Juliette Binoche, whose confections awaken a long-dormant romance between a widow (Caron) and her admirer. She later joined "Chocolat" castmate Alfred Molina to play a well-traveled European lady of substance in a modernized TV-movie version of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" (2001).

In 2003, Caron co-starred in "Le Divorce," director James Ivory's final co-production with longtime partner Ismail Merchant, as Naomi Watts' mother, who remains steely and imperious in the face of her daughter's mounting tragedies. The actress settled comfortably into semi-retirement by beginning work on her memoirs while operating a bed and breakfast in the countryside south of Paris. But Caron proved that her acting abilities were not yet put to rest with a 2006 turn on "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999- ). Her performance as a long-silenced rape victim earned her an Emmy Award in 2007.

“I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.”
Leslie Caron, one of the best-loved stars of classic American cinema.

Via: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/29278%7C98173/Leslie-Caron/

In Memory of Lillian Bassman

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