Georges Lepape

 Georges Lepape (Parigi, 26 maggio 1887 – Bonneval (Eure-et-Loir), 15 febbraio 1971) è stato un illustratore francese, particolarmente attivo negli anni trenta.

Noto stilista e critico, collabora a La Gazette du bon ton e a varie riviste di moda francesi. Si dedica inoltre all'ideazione di manifesti, tessuti, costumi teatrali ed all'illustrazione di libri. Ha collaborato con stilisti come Paul Poiret e per case di moda come Lanvin.Nel 1910 espone le proprie creazioni presso il Salon d'automne dove incontra lo stilista Paul Poiret di cui diventa amico. Il catalogo del1911 Les Choses de Paul Poiret è considerato il suo capolavoro. Collabora ai primi numeri della rivista La Gazette du bon ton per la quale disegna delle copertine a colori. In seguito lavorerà per importantissime riviste di moda come Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair,Femina, Vogue e Les Feuillets d'art.

Precursore della linea chiara, nelle proprie creazioni Lepape viene influenzato dall'orientalismo, dalle miniature persiane e dai Balletti russi. Nel 1917 collabora nuovamente con Poiret nella realizzazione di marionette sui modelli dello stilista. 

Nel 1920 partecipa alla mostra La Mode du XX siècle vue par les peintres allestita presso il Musée des Arts décoratifs di Parigi. Nel 1926 viene invitato a New York da Condé Nast, editore di Vogue negli USA, dove rimane per sei mesi. La qualità dei suoi lavori sarà d'ispirazione per molti illustratori a venire.

Nel corso della sua carriera, Georges Lepape realizza illustrazioni per manifesti pubblicitari, programmi tetarali, tessuti, cataloghi ed oltre trenta libri di Paul Géraldy, Sacha Guitry, Alfred de Musset, Stendhal, Victor Hugo e Platone.

Georges Lepape amava ritirarsi per lunghi periodi nella sua villa a picco sul mare di "Les Oursins" a Sainte-Maxime nel Var.

• Claude Lepape, Thierry Defert. Georges Lepape, ou l'Élégance illustrée, Herscher, Parigi, 1983.
• Marcus Osterwalder. Dictionnaire des illustrateurs (1905-1965), Ides et Calendes 2005, p. 1021-1022.
• Guido Vergani. Dizionario della moda (2010), Baldini Castoldi Dalai editore

Clifford Coffin

Major General Clifford Coffin VC, CB, DSO & Bar (10 February 1870 – 4 February 1959) was an Englishrecipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He was 47 years old, and a temporary brigadier general in the Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army, Commander 25th Infantry Brigade during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 31 July 1917 in Westhoek, Belgium, when his command was held up in attack owing to heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, Brigadier-General Coffin went forward and made an inspection of his front posts. Although under the heaviest fire from both machine-guns and rifles and in full view of the enemy, he showed an utter disregard of personal danger, walking quietly from shell-hole to shell-hole, giving advice and cheering his men by his presence. His gallant conduct had the greatest effect on all ranks and it was largely owing to his personal courage and example that the shell-hole line was held.

He later achieved the rank of major general.

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham, Kent.

Norman Parkinson

Norman Parkinson (21 aprile 1913 – 15 febbraio 1990) è stato un fotografo inglese, particolarmente attivo nel campo della moda ed insignito dell'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico.Parkinson (il cui nome di battesimo era Ronald William Parkinson Smith) nacque a Londra, ed andò a scuola alla Westminster School. Iniziò la sua carriere nel 1931 come apprendista alla corte dei fotografi Speaight and Sons Ltd. Nel 1934 aprì indipendentemente lo studio insieme a Norman Kibblewhite. Dal 1935 al 1940 lavorò per i periodici Harper's Bazaar e The Bystander. Durante la seconda guerra mondiale servì come fotografo di ricognizione sulla Francia per la Royal Air Force. Nel 1947 sposò l'attrice e modella Wenda Rogerson. Dal 1945 al 1960 fu impiegato come ritrattista e fotografo di moda per Vogue. Dal 1960 al 1964 lavorò per Queen. Nel 1963 si trasferì aTobago, molto frequentemente tornò a Londra e dal 1964 fino alla sua morte lavorò come fotografo freelance.

LADY RENDlESHAM WITH HER DAUGTHER, ANTONIA BY THE SERPENTINE WALKING TESS D'ERLANGE'R DACHSHUND,1959

"DRINKA PINTA MILKA DAY"
ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE MILK MARKETING BOARD
CIRCA 1958

Anais Pouliot by Dusan Reljin for Vogue Russia June 2011

The Dark Arts – Anais Pouliot taps into her inner seductress for a steamy editorial published in June’sVogue Russia. Captured by Dusan Reljin, Anais slips into the revealing stylings of Ludivine Poiblancfeaturing the work of Rodarte, Louis Vuitton and Yves Saint Laurent among others.

Anne by Robert Harper for Naag

The Modern Pin-up – Inspired by a mix of retro glamour and 90s grunge, photographer Robert Harpercaptures Anne for an androgynous shoot featured in the latest Naag. Styled by Simone Konu, Anne sports a devious mix of lingerie, drapey silhouettes and sheer garb.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Louise Emma Augusta Dahl (November 19, 1895 – December 11, 1989) was a noted American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland.Dahl was born in San Francisco, California to Norwegian immigrant parents. In 1914 she began her studies at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) where she stayed for six years. She studied design, decoration and architecture at Columbia University, New York in 1923. In 1928 she married the sculptorMeyer Wolfe, who constructed the backgrounds of many of her photos. Dahl-Wolfe was known for taking photographs outdoors, with natural light in distant locations from South America to Africa in what became known as "environmental" fashion photography. She preferred portraiture to fashion photography. Notable portraits include: Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Eudora Welty, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Orson Welles, Carson McCullers, Edward Hopper, Colette and Josephine Baker. She is known for her role in the discovery of a teenage Lauren Bacall who she photographed for the March 1943 cover of Harper's Bazaar. She was a great influence on photographers Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. One of her assistants was fashion and celebrity photographer, Milton H. Greene.

From 1933 to 1960, Dahl-Wolfe operated a New York City photographic studio that was home to the freelance advertising and fashion work she made for stores includingBonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue. From 1936 to 1958 Dahl-Wolfe was a staff fashion photographer at Harper’s Bazaar. From 1958 until her retirement in 1960, Dahl-Wolfe worked as a freelance photographer for Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and other periodicals.

Louise Dalhl-Wolfe lived many of her later years in Nashville, Tennessee. She died in New Jersey of pneumonia in 1989. The full archive of Dahl-Wolfe's work is located at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which also manages the copyright of her work.

In 1999, her work was the subject of a documentary film entitled Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light. The film featured the only surviving modern footage of Dahl-Wolfe, including extensive interviews. It was written and directed by Tom Neff, edited by Barry Rubinow and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell.

John Rawlings

John Rawlings (1912-1970) was a Condé Nast Publications fashion photographer from the 1930s through the 1960s. Rawlings left a significant body of work, including 200Vogue magazine and Glamour magazine covers to his credit and 30,000 photos in archive, maintained by curator Kohle Yohannan.

Rawlings was in the elite circle of top Vogue photographers Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, and George Platt Lynes. The photographer's recently rediscovered archive includes photographs of stage, screen, and society stars of the 1940s and 1950s, including Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dali, Veronica Lake, Bridget Bate Tichenor and Montgomery Clift.