#serge lido

[gacougnol]

Serge LIDO (1906-1984)

Leslie Caron, dancer

[more-than-ideas]

Serge Lido

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Serge Lido

Photo of Jean Cocteau, Jeannine Charrat, and Roland Petit for the ballet "Orphée", where he designed the costumes and decor, 1950

[auroraswedding]

Rosella Hightower as Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, 1960 Photo by Serge Lido.

[spectredelarose]

Nereids in Sleeping Beauty, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 1960

[smokedrunk]

Micheline Presle par Serge Lido, années 50.

[swanlake1998]

rosella hightower photographed as the queen of the butterflies in john taras’ piège de lumière by serge lido

[dance-world]

"Adventure" - music by Samuel Barber. Costumes by William Walstrom. Choreography by John Butler. Danced by Carmen Gutierrez, Glen Tetley, and Arthur Mitchell. First produced in Europe on July 22, 1955, at the Piccolo Theatre of Genoa by the American Dance Theatre. Photo by Serge Lido.

[labyrinthofstreams]

French chorus girls, 1940s. Photo by Serge Lido. x

[look-sharp-notes]

Coco Chanel and Serge Lifar - 1937 - Lido Beach.

Coco Chanel is wearing shoes about which she said, “They are the last point of elegance.”

На Коко Шанель туфли про которые она говорила «Они — последняя точка элегантности».

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to be gay (not a word I heard thrown toward me) was to be degenerate, abused. I found solace in films and books and writing letters to people I wanted to meet and talk to.

There was a bookstore near the LSU campus where I could buy, without questioning, magazines and newspapers that covered New York in the 1970s, and there I saw Candy Darling and others who were fighting against the abuses and limitations thrust upon them.

Was I able to look at some movie actresses in the same way after seeing Candy Darling apply her interpretations upon them? I don't know. I know that the reviews of Pauline Kael shaped how I looked at films, and because I felt that Candy Darling clasped film stars to her as if they were amulets against the darkness that was around her--around all of us--I came to see them as she did. Idols. Stations of the Cross.

And now, looking at this Serge Lido photograph of Simone Signoret, I see Candy Darling. I saw Candy Darling in a similar pose, and I wonder, Did she mimic Signoret? Or is this just how a grand and beautiful lady lounges in a bed?

Read Cynthia Carr's CANDY DARLING: DREAMER, ICON, SUPERSTAR. And then let's talk.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

[follies of god]

[gacougnol]

Serge LIDO (1906-1984)

Leslie Caron, 1948

[france-cinema]

Serge Lido, Sur le tournage du film Adieu poulet de Pierre Granier-Deferre, Lino Ventura lit une feuille de dialogues entouré de Patrick Dewaere et du réalisateur, 1975.

[itsloriel]

Simone Signoret by Serge Lido, 1950s

via The Red List.

[fyeahjeancocteau]

Roland Petit, Jean Cocteau and Jeannine Charrat for the ballet Orphée, 1950's. Photo by Serge Lido

[lovelyballetandmore]

George Zoritch | Photos by Serge Lido