Photography 1920s

Harper’s Bazaar, August 1993 Photographer, Mario Testino Model, Nadja Auermann

sassy: adjective ˈsa-sē impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and stylish, showing no respect for people in authority, saucy, pert, confident, chic. "This picture is hanging in my local sandwich shop. Owners parents were definitely old school cool." –Shared by CousinDan

Born 1890 as Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American visual artist Man Ray spent most of his career in Paris. He wa...

Although fashion did not embrace the look of trousers on the female form until the late 20th century, history saw working women wearing them a hundred years prior. From Victorian coal miners who rolled up their skirts around their waist to reveal soot-covered pants underneath to today’s terrible backlash of factory-torn denim, spandex jeggings, and bedazzled bums, women’s pants have undergone quite a transformation. Let’s take a look at the early fashion of women’s pants from the festooned…

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fuckyeahmodernflapper: Two of the Lane Sisters 1920s

Whilst doing research for my post on Alla Nazimova, I stumbled across some beautiful pictures of Natacha Rambova, I had only vaguely heard of her, I decided to investigate further and found that she had a fascinating story. I was also blown away by her style, this woman clearly had elegance, style and artistic talent dripping from her fingertips which makes her a perfect model for this era in history, and she certainly knew how to work a turban... Rambova was born Winifred Shaughnessy in…

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Mugshots of the razor gangs who ruled the 1920s underworld | Daily Mail Online

Ann Miller (April 12, 1923– January 22, 2004). In an interview featured in a "behind the scenes" documentary on, That's Entertainment III, she said that Eleanor Powell was her inspiration. Miller, made it "big" , in her roles in the musicals: Kiss Me Kate, Easter Parade and On the Town. Miller, popularized pantyhose in the 1940s as a solution to the problem of torn stockings during the filming of her dance production numbers. She was known, later in her career, for her black bouffant hair…