Jane Norman Leopard Print Dress
From stylists to photographers and designers, anybody in the appearance industry uses references – afterwards all, afflatus has to arise from somewhere.
["446.2"]
Fitted Leopard Top | Jane Norman Leopard Print DressAlong with swatches of bolt and sketches, best designers' studios will accept images of blur stars, singers and alike azoic altar affianced to the wall. When I visited Stuart Vevers in Madrid aftermost year, anon afterwards he started as artistic administrator of Loewe, there were abundant pictures of Catherine Deneuve in the blur Belle de Jour on the wall. She exemplified, he told me, the "twisted common thing" that he capital to capture. John Galliano's references, meanwhile, tend to be absolutely specific, with accomplished shows for both his own characterization and Dior actuality afflicted by Grey Gardens, a 1975 documentary about antisocial socialites, as able-bodied as by Fifties archetypal Lisa Fonssagrives.
Ideas can generally arise from acceptable dress or uniforms too; afterwards all the Breton striped acme that Chanel aboriginal animated to a appearance account were aggressive by a sailor's uniform. References additionally accommodate capital clues to compassionate a accumulating by accouterment article easier to visualise than concepts of aggregate or proportion.
["446.2"]
Animal Print Maxi Dress | Jane Norman | Jane Norman Leopard Print DressThe best acclaimed appearance references accept angled over into cliché, however. Audrey Hepburn's atramentous Givenchy cocktail dress in Breakfast at Tiffany's, for example, Jane Fonda in a argent spacesuit as Barbarella, or Diane Keaton as Annie Hall in a man's shirt and tie. They're constant images but a little too familiar, and as such weren't called by above appearance editor Liz Walker to arise in Appearance Book, a abstract of about 500 appearance images, appear abutting month.
The idea, Walker says, was to abridge a alternation of images of conspicuously dressed bodies – anyone from associates of the Finnish Navy to Jane Birkin – and to accommodate abounding images bodies wouldn't accept seen, as able-bodied as the added acclaimed ones. Diane Keaton is in the book, but not in Annie Hall. Audrey Hepburn appears too, but not in that cocktail dress; she is pictured lying on a baiter accouter in a hat which resembles a broad ice-cream cone.
["446.2"]
Leopard Print Faux Fur Coat | Jane Norman | Jane Norman Leopard Print DressThere are recognisable images, such as a attempt of Marilyn Monroe on a fur rug and the photo of Kate Moss smoking, but some accept never been appear before.
The book is disconnected into 13 themes, with such titles as Frills and Furbelows, All-in-One and Animal Magic – which includes images of Fifties sirens in bobcat print, and a added abrupt photo of a adventurous and assuming Norman Parkinson all in white with a leopard-print scarf. There is additionally a remarkable, and shocking, angel from 1947 of two women selecting bobcat pelts which are dehydration in the African sun: "Which will accomplish the best coat?" the explanation reads.
["446.2"]
Leopard Print Jumper Dress | Jane Norman | Jane Norman Leopard Print DressWalker says that the "juxtapositions are the capital abstraction abaft the book," and with few words above the captions readers are larboard to accomplish their own associations amid such all-embracing images as a Portuguese fieldworker in 1955, adequate from the sun in a flowered shirt and harbinger hat, and a photo of Jacqueline Bouvier (before her alliance to John Kennedy) in a folkish brim and blouse; a far cry for her boxlike Sixties brim suits.
References generally assignment on the acuteness in an amoebic and baggy way, assortment in the hidden until they anatomy new ideas. And whether you assignment in the appearance industry or aloof like the clothes, beginning new means to dress are what images like these will trigger.
["446.2"]
Fitted Leopard Top | Jane Norman Leopard Print Dress'Style Book: Fashionable Inspirations' by Elizabeth Walker is appear by Endeavour London, £20, on 14 September. To adjustment a archetype for the appropriate amount of £18 (free P&P) alarm Independent Books Direct on 08430 600 030, or appointment Independentbooks-direct.co.uk
["388"]["446.2"]
Animal Print Bandeau Dress | Jane Norman | Jane Norman Leopard Print Dress["446.2"]
Leopard Print Jumper Dress | Jane Norman | Jane Norman Leopard Print Dress