Hustle your bustle, students! Professor Young is ready to give her senior class lecture on the Grammar of Glamour. I’m just going to sit in the passenger seat on this tour, because I simply can’t top the gems Loretta herself shares in her revealing “The Things I Had to Learn.” Written in 1961 read more
To promote her upcoming film "Now And Forever," Carole Lombard entered the Paramount portrait studio one day in 1934 for a few photos. An original 8" x 10" copy of one is now available at eBay, from the same seller that has put up a few other vintage Lombard shots in the past week or two. Take a loo read more
Just about every magazine has done an editorial spread inspired by Brigitte Bardot's hair styles over the past few months. Here is one from July's Glamour magazine showing us their take on modern ways to borrow from Brigitte along with tips on how to achieve the looks this summe read more
In these more casual times, it's often hard to find the kind of glamour I admire and that was so celebrated in the 1930s. Happily, I found some samples shining on the Fall 2011 runway at the California Market Center. Musani Couture had many many vintage-inspired gowns in their latest col read more
As you know from my vintage collection for GlamAmor, I am definitely partial to the 1950s and 1960s when it comes to design in daytime dresses. But when it comes to evening gowns? In that case, I am allllllll about the 1930s.
To offer escape to an impoverished nation devastated by the Great read more
Amazingly, Gina Gershon and Elizabeth Berkley (forever to have a silent "poor thing" inserted after her almost-famous name) are able to keep a straight face as they are subjected to the very best in '90s boudoir photography. read more
Glamourous French beauty, model, and actress Capucine would have been a mere eighty today, had fate been kinder. If her American career never quite equaled the amount of publicity it received, she was nonetheless something more than merely decorative in a number of pictures, not least as madam Barba read more
My latest video is about the talented and tragic Universal Studios costume designer Vera West. She was one of the first women to head a costume department at a major studio. While she made her mark in a variety of genres, her most influential work was in horror, including some of the most fa read more
