#vintage 30s

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Movie mirror

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Evening jacket, 1937, by Elsa Schiaparelli

A fine and important Elsa Schiaparelli couture Zodiac jacket, the Astrology Collection, Winter, 1938-39, Paris. This is arguably one of the most beautiful of all Schiaparelli's creations with its glittering embroidery, shimmering star-shaped beads and rhinestones set against a midnight blue velvet background. Marlene Dietrich was photographed in her Beverly Hills residence in 1938 wearing the zodiac ensemble with matching dress. Schiap was fascinated by the night sky that she used to view as a child through her uncle's telescope - the renowned astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, director of the Brera Observatory in Milan. He inspired in her a lifelong fascination with the celestial realm. He commented that the moles on her cheeks reminded him of the Big Dipper which she adopted as her 'lucky star', incorporating it into printed fabrics, the fabric lining her salon, her own personal jewellery as well as on this magnificent jacket. Schiaparelli's press agent Hortense MacDonald stated that the Astrology collection was defined by Euclid's famous geometric treatise - 'Elements'.

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"TWO WOMEN IN LOVE" JOHN GUTMANN // 1937 [gelatin silver print | 19.6 × 19.7 cm.]

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Man Ray - Nightgown by Annek, Harper's Bazaar, July 1937, from Man Ray, Bazaar Years by John Esten (1988)

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Unknown. Musicians on tour in the countryside. France. 1939

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Raspberry silk bias cut gown

1930s

NYC

Augusta Auctions

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x-ray images, 1916-1931

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Anita Louise featured in a WINX advertisement, November 1933 ♡

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Dolls by Junichi Nakahara from an exhibition he held in 1932, when he was 19 years old, and which led to him being scouted by an editor of the magazine "Shoujo no Tomo" to become an illustrator for the magazine.

From: An interview given to Nakahara Rikako in 2020, titled "デビューは、人形作家" ("Debut as a doll maker").

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joan crawford, 1932

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Hedy Lamarr photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt at her home in Hollywood for LIFE magazine, 1938

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DORA MAAR / "UNTITLED" / circa 1935 [gelatin silver print | 300 x 200 mm.]

[kitsunetsuki]

Man Ray - Nightgown by Annek, Harper's Bazaar, Oct. 1936, from Man Ray, Bazaar Years by John Esten (1988)

[semioticapocalypse]

Carl van Vechten. Salvador Dali and Man Ray. Paris, France. June 16, 1934

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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Dress

c. 1931

maker unknown

RISD Museum