#serge lido

[gacougnol]

Serge LIDO (1906-1984)

Leslie Caron, dancer

[more-than-ideas]

Serge Lido

[dance-world]

Alexander Grant (22 February 1925 - 30 September 2011) in Cinderella - Sadler's Wells Ballet - photo by Serge Lido, 1953

[guy60660]

Erik Bruhn | Rudolf Nureyev | 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

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Ph Serge Lido, Simone Signoret, 1950s.

[smokedrunk]

Micheline Presle par Serge Lido, années 50.

[auroraswedding]

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

[spectredelarose]

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

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[gacougnol]

Serge LIDO (1906-1984)

Leslie Caron, 1948

[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».

[dance-world]

George Zoritch and George Skibine - photo by Serge Lido

[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]

[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.

[fyeahjeancocteau]

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