Camilla Skorgvaard | Slim Paley

With the opening of both the Grace Kelly exhibition at The Victoria & Albert in London, and the Cartier-Bresson show in NYC, this is indeed a month of celebrating beautiful images in black & white. Part III of my tribute to these opposites on the colour spectrum begins with this cool graphic photo of Sophia Loren, looking amazing as always. The polarity of black & white creates a dynamic quite like no other. If in doubt, trot it out when you’re having those fashion meltdowns and questioning everything else in your closet (What was I thinking?!) The black and white combination will always save you. What’s chicer than a LBD with pearls? A well cut pair of black trousers or black pencil skirt with a white shirt and black heels? Done! The one image I searched for but couldn’t find was a really fabulous looking traditional room in a black and white scheme. I know I have one somewhere… Perhaps an excuse to do just one more black & white post?!!

I’ve always loved this photo of Peter Beard.

photo Ralph Pucci

YSL 2010

Cookie photo from Sweetamb.blogspot.com

Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2010

This is not a photo, but rather a tapestry by the artist Pae White, generated from a photograph of smoke.

Antonio Piccirilli Fall 2010

Such a beautiful dress!

Chiharu Shiota creates spacial installations spinning a filigreed cocoon of black wool yarn from ceiling to floor around ordinary objects. These photos from “In Silence“

Marchesa 2010

“Book Binding: Found Reference” by Cara Barer

Dolce & Gabbana 2010.

Camilla Skorvgaard for Amanda Wakely 2010

Slim Paley photo

Some good reads from my library- The Complete Ripley Novels, New York Stories, A Charmed Life; Growing Up in Macbeth’s Castle, The bookshop at 10 Curzon St.(my favourite bookshop in London), and Angels on Toast by Dawn Powell (btw- read anything by Dawn Powell)

Isabel Marant Fall 2010