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Billie Holiday in the spotlight during a performance in 1954.

Salvador Dalí’s surrealist dream sequence in — Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Woman’s Day magazine, June 1976

Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, on location for Dr. No.

Illustration from The Co-ed Cookbook, Scholastic, 1967. Illustrator: Edward Garvey

Vivan Maier, 1955

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1952.

Vikki Dougan   photo by Ralph Crane    1958

Molly Ringwald looking elegant (1985). Check this blog!

“La mode en France”, 1965.

“Abendbrot”. BOSCH refrigerator, 1958 ad detail.

North Star Blankets, 1932.

A Marilyn Monroe worn dress from her final film, Something’s Got to Give (20th Century Fox, 1962). The figure-hugging silk crepe dress is printed with scattered painterly roses in shades of persimmon and deep cherry with a plunging V back. The interior of the studio constructed dress has hand finished details, is lined with ivory souffle, and has boning to the waistline. Jean Louis was the costume designer on the film. Monroe wore this dress when her character, who was proclaimed dead and returns from being stranded on an island for five years, is introduced in the film and reunited with her children, who do not realize she is their mother. Monroe was fired from the film, and while the studio tried to replace her with Lee Remick, the film’s leading man, Dean Martin, refused to finish the film without Monroe. Monroe’s untimely death came less than a month after she was let go from the production. It was sold at Julien’s Auctions for $358,000.

Jeanne Moreau