Thursday, August 5, 2021

Isabella Albonico - Italian Model From the 1950s and 1960s

  














Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Sheikha Mozah Fashion


 Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al – Missned: is a princess. Sheikha Mozah’s wedding to Emiro Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani as the second of his three wives, and now a mother of the heir to the throne, makes her Queen of Qatar.

But she is also Queen of Qatar fashion. Class of 1959, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned – that’s her full name – loves fashion : Valentino, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, the haute couture designer Stephane Rolland are only some of the houses she prefers. She is often seen wearing fashion worn on catwalks which personally it looks better on her than on the models.













Refined Couture

 



Ralph & Russo Couture Fall 2015
















Dolce and Gabbana

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Sophia Loren.

 Sofia Lazzaro (as she was known then because it was said her beauty would awake Lazarus from the dead) entered the Miss Italia beauty pageant in 1950, where she captured the attention of Carlo Ponti, who was a judge at the pageant. He was 37 and she was 14. He was a film producer and cast her in various minor roles, one of which was Quo Vadis (1951), which launched her career. It was at this time that her name was changed and in her performance in La Favorita (1952), she went by the name of Sophia Loren.









Harper’s Bazaar Exhibition - First in Fashion Magazine since 1867


Harper's Bazaar is an American monthly women's fashion magazine. It was first published in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly Harper's Bazar. Harper's Bazaar is published by Hearst and considers itself to be the style resource for "women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture".



Harpers Bazaar 1947


Taffy in Harper’s Bazaar, August 1956.











THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR