Women in Red

Fashion Illustration - 1920s to 1980s

This week at Take a Word the theme is A SPLASH OF RED. It took me ages to find, cut and edit all these girls. Background is mine.

Isn't it amazing to observe how fashion changed throughout time? I think our time is the best when it takes to clothes because finally we can wear whatever we want. 

Geneviéve

This week the theme at Take a Word is OLD FASHIONED. I have chosen the 1900s. Besides, feathered hats and real fur are really old fashioned these days. Geneviéve Lantelme - photographed for Les Modes, January 1910 issue - looks gorgeous though. 

I edited, cut and colored Geneviéve's photo (found here); background: Holliewood Studio; texture/overlay: Paree and Buzillo Stock.

Lee Miller and the 1920s fashion

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This week at Take a Word the theme is VINTAGE FASHION.  The 1920s is one of my favorite fashion eras. To depict it I chose Lee Miller who in the following decades did much more than modelling for Vogue. 

Overlay: Kim Klassen

Flapper in fashion

The theme at the Three Muses is FLAPPER. I'm depicting two gorgeous flapper dresses. The first one was designed by Adrian in 1929; the second one by Alberta Ferreti in 2009. Although 80 years separate them they have very much in common. We can't say the same about the model. The second one is as beautiful as the first but much more slender and tall. An almost impossible woman that the fashion industry transforms into an impossible dream to most girls all over the world.

I did the background beginning from the first photo, then added textures by Parée.

a thousand fake flowers

This week at Take a Word the theme is FLORAL.  

I did the doll using a photo and several papers; flowers: Angie Young; Textures and overlay: Kim Klassen.

Beautifying me

This week at the Muses the theme is FOOTWEAR. 

Boots: Vivienne Westwood; elements: Tumblefish Studio, Hidden Vintage, Createwing Designs.

Dreaming of Paradise

This week at Take a Word the theme is TURQUOISE.  

Background: Beth Rimmer; overlays: Rebecca Mcmeen; girls: Jantzen 1950s ads.

Lovely day

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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

At Take a Word the  theme this week is ART and I decided to play a little bit and also pay homage to artists I like.

The background is Paul Signac's "Le Chateau de Comblat", Girls are from a Louis Vuitton catwalk. I replaced the black parts of their clothes by patterns from Gustav Klimt's paitings The Apple Tree and Tannenwald. The girl on the right wears a collar a borrow from Judith and the girl on the left has now Mäda Primavesi face. Finally lots of filters and a Kim Klassen texture.

Nothing suits you like a suit

From right to left, suits of 1910, 1921, 1934, 1942, 1958 (click to enlarge)

The theme for this week at The Three Muses is HAUTE COUTURE. I've decided for women in suits in the first half of the 20th century. Always elegant.

Background is a photo of mine edited; girls by Tom Tierney (Dover).

Daughters of Lear

The theme in Take a Word is DOORS and here it is what my muse came up with...

Door: Almudena Stock; background and texture: Parée.

Pretty in Pink

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” - Audrey Hepburn

The theme this week in Take a Word is Think Pink. I thought pink hair...

Monsier Dior wrote in his Little Dictionary of Fashion that  "... Every woman should have something pink in her wardrobe. It is the color of happiness ...". The girls above don't even have to wear clothes to feel happy!

Background: Marisa Lerin; texture: Donnamarie113.

Free as a butterfly

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, 

butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life.  

And everyone deserves a little sunshine.  

Jeffrey Glassberg

The theme this week is Take a Word is butterflies, one of my favorite themes.

Thanks for visiting!

I clipped a picture I found on the internet, applied filters, customized her dress with embroidered butterflies; furthermore I applied butterflies in her shoes, coloring them blue. Background: combination of papers by Studio Manu; butterflies: Dover; Texture: Kim Klassen.

My underwear

The Three muses asked for UNDERWEAR and what's the fun in featuring Victoria's Secret babes? Better than that is depict a real beauty showing off her handmade Victorian underwear! 

Background (altered): Kim Klassen; Mask: Studio Manu; model: Sarah.

Geometric

 A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. 

He must have time to modify his shape.

Mark Twain

The theme in Take a Word this week is SHAPES and my first thought was a A-line dress, then dots and squares. I made a polygonal background, googled fashion photos with geometric themes, then added a filter that creates squares of different sizes.

Background:  I combined stocks by Firesign24, Melyssah6-Stock and Z-GrimV (dA); girls on the left: Louis Vuitton runway Spring 2013; model on the right: fashion editorial by Jean-François Campos for Flair Magazine (November 2011); texture: Kim Klassen.

Sweet Lolita

Hi! The Three Muses asked for FASHION and it has occurred to me that this was a good opportunity to portrait this trend among teens and also young women called kawaii (the word also applies to everything cute in Japanese culture). It is also known as Lolita fashion. According to Wikipedia, Lolita fashion is based on Victorian fashion and the Rococo period. Girls who dress in Lolita fashion are not going for the "sexy" look, but instead try to look cute, innocent, and beautiful. This look is achieved with lace, ribbons, bows, ruffles, bloomers, aprons, and ruffled petticoats. Parasols, chunky Mary Jane heels, and Bo Peep collars are also very popular. There is also the Sweet Lolita that includes even more embellishments and is often in pastels and other light colors.

Background by Caotiicah02 (altered); texture by Shadowhouse Creations (altered).

The challenge this week in Three Muses is SHOES. I know women want and deserve much more, but I couldn't resist when I've found this quote. Besides, we do need huge amounts of sense of humor to keep walking...

The delightful hat is a 1937 creation of Elsa Schiaparelli in collaboration with Salvador Dali; the girl was made by combining and altering 2 different photos; the background is my daughter’s photo of her own shoes (I know…); texture by Kim Klassen; quote by Mimi Pond.

I leave you with Loubotin and Oprah:

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

Christian Louboutin

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

Miss Hepburn in Turquoise and Lime

Every now and then I have to return to lovely Audrey Hepburn, not only because she was beautiful, talented and good-hearted but because she's got style! Yesterday when I was trying to figure out what I would invent to attend The Three Muses challenge - Turquoise and Lime - Miss Hepburn came to mind. And here it is what I came up with (I swear that when I started this collage it was pretty turquoise, but it took its own path and ended up like this...).

The background is my own; elements by Beth Rimmer and MC Designs. This photo was shot by Cecil Beaton, who was also the costume designer of My Fair Lady. Mr. Beaton, excuse my boldness customizing one of your beautiful creation.

Circles, Squares and Glasses

"Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses" ~ Dorothy Parker

"Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams."

 ~ Ann Landers

Hello! The challenge is CIRCLES AND SQUARES in The Three Muses and it reminded me of glasses. They are a curse with which I have lived from 9 to 13 years old. Contact lenses replaced them until I was 26. So I had the surgery and up to 39 I was just having fun with sunglasses. By 40 the curse has struck again... 

Steampunk Beauty

The Three Muses asked for STEAMPUNK. Always a difficult task for me. Maybe it's my tropical soul...

Well, I find this gal with a very artistic makeup (by Emma Reed) and it seemed to me she would fit perfectly to a steampunk environment. 

All elements by Finecrafted Designs.

Dressing in Art

Vestindo-se com arte

The Three Muses asked for SOMETHING SEPIA and this was what my muse asked for.

When I was looking for a vintage photo in my stash, I found this one which I like very much because of his attitude confident and at the same time relaxed. Moreover, his short and wide tie always seemed bizarre to me. I found out that before the Second World War ties were worn shorter than they are today due, in part, to men wearing trousers at the natural waist (more or less at the level of the belly button), and also due to the popularity of vests, where tie length is not important as long as the tips are concealed.

I guess this particular photo was taken in the first decade of the 20th century. Our model is the painter Karl Anderson.

The photo was originally B&W. I painted and altered it. Quote by Harry Anderson; Textures by Princess of Shadows and Somadjinn (both on DeviantArt); Font: MT Gloucester Extra Condensed.

As três musas pediram algo SÉPIA e isso foi o que a minha musa pediu.

Quando eu estava procurando uma foto vintage em meu estoque, eu encontrei esta que eu gosto muito por causa da atitude confiante e ao mesmo tempo descontraída do fotografado. Além disso, a gravata curta e larga sempre me pareceu estranha. Eu descobri que antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial as gravatas eram usadas ​​mais curtas do que hoje, devido, em parte, ao fato de os homens vestirem calças na cintura natural (mais ou menos na altura do umbigo), e também devido à popularidade dos coletes, fazendo o comprimento da gravata não ser importante já que sua ponta fica escondida.

Eu acho que essa foto foi tirada na primeira década do século 20. Nosso modelo é o pintor Karl Anderson.