The Quotable Al Pacino
Posted: December 1, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor | Tags: Al Pacino, Hair, Hollywood, Parody, quotes, satire, Show Business, Style, The Godfather, Vanity, Washington Post Leave a comment[PHOTO] Vintage Future Car
Posted: December 24, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Automotive, Car, design, Engineering, fashion, Futurism, Style, vintage Leave a commentAndy Warhol: Jazz Album Covers 1952-58
Posted: December 18, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Andy Warhol, Cool, design, fashion, Illustration, Jazz, Music, Style, typography Leave a comment[PHOTO] Miles Davis
Posted: December 16, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Be Bop, Birth of the Cool, Brooks Brothers, Cool, fashion, Jazz, Miles Davis, Photography, Style 1 CommentMiles Davis was the best-dressed man of the 20th century. Starting out, he’d customise his pawnshop Brooks Brothers suits, cutting notches in the lapels in imitation of the Duke of Windsor. After 1949’s Birth of the Cool, he favoured the Ivy League look of European tailoring. In the 60s he went for slim-cut Italian suits and handmade doeskin loafers. He was always the coolest-looking man in the room. Hell, he even managed to look cool sporting a blood-splattered white khaki jacket following a scuffle with police outside Birdland. In the 70s his wardrobe went as far-gone funky as his music and he was the only man who could get away with wearing purple bell bottoms, kipper ties and hexagonal glasses.
PLATE IX by jlillard
Posted: October 21, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: design, graphics, Illustration, Style Leave a commentPLATE IX by jlillard
[PHOTO] Audrey Hepburn, 1953
Posted: October 18, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Audrey Hepburn, Cinema, fashion, Glamour, Hollywood, London, Magazines, Photography, Style, Sunday Pictorial Leave a comment
Audrey Hepburn photographed at her London home for the Sunday Pictorial, May 1953.
Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar
Posted: October 8, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Cigar, Cigars, fashion, Fireplace, Glamour, High Heels, Illustration, Leisure, Painting, Style, tobacco Leave a commentIllustration of the Day: Matthieu Forichon ‘Autumn Books’
Posted: October 4, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Mediasphere, Reading Room | Tags: Amanda Wakeley, design, fashion, Illustration, Kate Spade, Martin Margiela, Matthieu Forichon, Paris, Style, Temperley London Leave a commentIllustration by Matthieu Forichon
Autumn Books – Wall Street Journal
P.J.O’Rourke On Rights & Duties
Posted: July 11, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Humor, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Baby boomer, Civil Rights, design, fashion, Harvard Lampoon, Illustration, National Lampoon, National Review, P. J. O'Rourke, Style, Wit 2 Comments“There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
— P. J. O’Rourke