happy birthday johnny hallyday

johnny hallyday with sylvie vartan - "vivre". 

 le wow!

gone but not forgotten - jean harlow

jean & mother jean

THE stage mama

signing autographs, 1935

having her hair fingerwaved june 25, 1933

strolling through the metro-goldwyn-mayer studio lot, april 1932

jean harlow with 2nd husband paul bern shortly after their marriage, june 6, 1932.

(bern would commit suicide in september of that year)

photographed by william mortensen, ca. 1927

with director victor fleming & co-star william powell having tea & toast on the set of the MGM musical melodrama reckless, 1935). photograph by virgil apger.

on the set of dinner at eight, 1933

photographed by george hurrell, 1934

attending the national air races, july, 1933

with ben lyon in hell's angels, 1930

1933

photographed by edwin bower hesser, ca. 1929

(photographed at griffith park!)

with her 3rd husband, cinematographer harold rosson. she was pressured to wed by the studio to avoid any scandal after paul bern's death. they were married only 8 months before quietly ending the union 1933.

with marlene dietrich at trocadero, 1935.

i guess if you're going to hang out with dietrich you just give up and go make-up less? 

in iron man directed by tod browning, 1930

photographed by clarence sinclair bull at home in her swimming pool, 1932

with love william powell, ca. 1936

(one of my favorite pictures of the two of them. she looks so in love).

at age 14, 1923

her funeral from above, june 11, 1937

the original platinum blonde.  happy birthday jean harlow (3 march, 1911 - 7 june, 1937)

it's so crazy to think she died a few months after her 25th birthday.

happy birthday emmanuelle riva

in "hiroshima, mon amour" de alain resnais, 1959.

with eiji okada in “hiroshima mon amour,” by director alain resnais, 1959.

1965

in hiroshima mon amour, 1959.

during the filming of "climats", directed by stellio lorenzi, 1961.

with jean-louis trintignant in "amor" directed by michael haneke, 2012.

it's her 86th birthday & she's in the lead to win an oscar for best actress.  congrats & good luck!!

fashion fades, only style remains the same

photograph by man ray ca. 1935

photograph by roger schall, 1937

 on roussy sert's yacht in front of the lido of venice, 1936

as a shopgirl, moulins, 1903

with duke Llarino of rome in venice, italy, 1930

during a fitting with romy schneider, 1961

with vera bates, 1928

on the street, 1962

happy birthday gabrielle "coco" chanel.....

where would the world of fashion be without you?

jet set marbella '73

tony ward photographed by gonzalo machado & styled by jesus cicero for gq españa, june 2012.
happy birthday to the ageless mr. ward!

happy birthday stevie nicks

i wish i had the balls to bring back this hairstyle.
not only one of the best voices in rock but her style is just. so. beyond. love.
happy 64th birthday.

happy birthday - david bowie

time by david bowie.

happy birthday - marlene dietrich

at the annual ball for the foreign press in berlin, alfred eisenstaedt, 1928

eugene robert richee, 1931

cecil beaton, 1935

eugene robert richee, 1931

blonde venus, 1932

nikolas muray, 1935

the original swan!

with clifton webb & elizabeth allen (dressed as dietrich) at basil rathbone's costume party, 1935.

milton h. greene for life magazine, ca. 1950s

edward steichen, 1932

morocco, 1930

i mean, really, there are no words for how magnificent she was.

27 december, 1901 - 6, may 1992