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💚 Window shopping at Bergdorf Goodman is always a good idea 💚 📸 A 1952 photograph by Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985) [John Vachon (1914-1975) is also listed at MCNY because he shot part of the same story for Look] for Look magazine via Museum of the City of New York archives X2011.4.11919.103.

✈️🐶 Audrey Hepburn departs from Ciampino Airport, in Rome, with her trusty Yorkshire Terrier companion, Mr. Famous, on June 16, 1958. ✈️🐶 Audrey and I are taking notes 📝. 📸 © Reporters Associati via Vanity Fair.

How I wish every disagreement would end... 🥔😂🥔... (It’s part of Hollywood legend that Bell Potato Chips, then trying to move from being a West Coast regional brand to a national one, sent cases of their crisps (I’m English!) to Hollywood studios in the hope of product placement in a movie... they struck gold! 😉) . . 🎥 ‘Seven Year Itch’ directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell (1955) via giphy. Trivia via TCM movie page.

✈️ Dior models take to the skies ✈️ Christian Dior models are seen arriving in Australia in November 1957 (shortly after Dior’s unexpected passing in October of that year) for the presentation of the autumn/winter 1957 haute couture collection at Myer Mural Hall, Melbourne. Dior model, Svetlana Lloyd, would later remember, "We had a plane entirely for us models and a lot of the top brass who came along for the ride. It was quite an adventure to have been chosen. I'd never flown quite so long on an aeroplane. [...] We showed the whole collection every day in Australia and each one of us mannequins had a minimum of 20 garments to show. We were also entertained a lot. The only thing we were not allowed to do was to have any sun because if we started getting tanned it wouldn't go with the dresses." 📸 National Gallery of Victoria via the Guardian. Lloyd quotes from “Svetlana Lloyd recalls the House of Dior's 1957 foray Down Under,” by Georgina Safe in the Australian Financial Review, August 18, 2017.

💗 A bride on the banks of the Seine 💗 A gorgeous, delicate Jacques Griffe wedding gown, described in Vogue as a perfect example of a “Paris bride-A pink bride with pinkness delicately diffused by streamers.” It can be difficult to see the detail here but this gown was made of “white mousseline de soie: a full crinolined skirt, a covered bodice gathered between lines of Valenciennes lace.” Utter heaven, especially with a rosebud headdress and bouquet by Judith’s Garden. 📸 Photographed in Paris by Karen Radkai for Vogue, June 1, 1955. (Radkai, one of my favorite fashion photographers, is also the subject of a chapter in my new book, so stay tuned for more magic like this! 😊)

Anniversary Joy! 💗🎥🗽👰🏼💗 Thanks for marrying me, Helm, and I love you lots blah blah... Now, pop the kettle on and make me a nice cuppa! 📸 @charlottejenkslewis

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