Flashback: Flower Power Fashions; Jane Woodhead on the Cool Looks of the Late 60sByline: Jane WoodheadIT WAS the year The Beatles opened their Apple Boutique in the West End -- combining the flowery hip pie look and Sergeant Pepper military styles with top designer names.This year was ...
Aretha Franklin hit her stride in the late-60s, releasing timeless hits such as: “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman,”“Ain’t No Way,”“Chain of Fools,”“I Say A Little Prayer,” and her biggest hit, “Respect.” By the end of the ’60s, Aretha had earned the moniker...
In Victorian Fashion Scenes from the Late 1800s, find 47 coloring pages showing more than 80 different examples of the tea gowns and walking dresses, evening costumes and dainty frocks that were popular in the United States during the late Victorian era.
By the mid-1990s, in his late 60s, he had become a professor at theParson School of Designand Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, recorded when he acted as an expert witness in a 1996 court case about the waiver of moral rights in visual artworks. Earlier court cases indi...
Yet for me the tone of the poem (‘When he and I,/ after drinking...’) is pure wonder at sexuality (including a very late 60s vision of an orgy) and before that, the ‘meeting’ with a ‘goddess’ or woman in her guise. That the work does not honor, acknowledge or ask questio...
By the ’60s and ’70s, interest in space exploration—followed by the proliferation of cheap, plastic pedal toys—led to the permanent death of pedal cars. You may also like: Popular fashion trends the year you were born 1938: Drunkometer Kat // Flickr 1938: Drunkometer Indiana University...
I grew up on a farm outside Port Clinton, Ohio. I was the youngest son, with four brothers and four sisters, plus a girl my folks took in. By the late 60s, most of us were 1 and had families of our own. One day, 2 we were visiting my parents in late summer or early fall,...
A definitive icon of the mid-20th century cool, sexy French aesthetic that spread through pop culture, Jane Birkin was a singer, model, fashion figure, and actor from the 1960s onward. Born in London and coming of age during the city's "Swinging 60s," Birkin relocated to Paris where sh...
Patton Oswalt: Once everyone was asleep, she was on that laptop. … There is a breed of men and women that are just wired to pursue these people and keep going, you know, when other people woulda gone, “Oh, I gotta go live my life.” ...
"I've been dressing Mick since the '60s," says Tim, of the flamboyant Rolling Stones frontman Jagger. "He even asked me to make it in a bigger size than what he's used to. He said to me, 'This isn't something I'll be standing by a bar in', and if you've seen the video...