Flashback Tyra

Model Tyra Banks posing in Louis Feraud designs and photographed by Bruno Bisang for

 L’Officiel France 'Tout En Blanc' Editorial - March 1994

In this spread she's glowing and just looks absolutely stunning and to me will always have the most memorable face from the 1990's.

 

Style Moment: Pierre Cardin

Italian model and actress Elsa Martinelli wearing black leather coat by Pierre Cardin
Vogue Paris, March 1967

Vintage Films: French Love

I recently watched for the second time the 1960's French film "Breathless" (À bout de souffle) about car thief Michel played by Jean-Paul Belmondo who sees himself as a young Humphrey Bogart and flees to Paris after committing petty crimes and killing a cop in Marseille. While on the run and in Paris he meets and starts a relationship with American student Patricia played by Jean Seberg an aspiring journalist. Pat sells the New York Herald Tribune on the Champs-Elysee (a street in Paris) and the film follows the two leisurely strolling down the streets of Paris and hanging out in her apartment. I wasn't too excited about the movie, but what did grab my attention were the Paris attractions, the visual styles and the clothes which were casual and simple, but stylish.

Renaissance Flare: 1950's Pierre Cardin Wool Coat

Photo by Willy Maywald, Paris,1958

I don 't know what Pierre Cardin's inspiration was when sketching the design for this coat, but the collar reminds me of the "Ruff", a detachable collar made of starched linen or lace worn by the European elite during the sixteenth century.

Queen of England Anne of Demark 1574-1619

Angela Lansbury wearing costume from 1948 film "The Three Musketeers"