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1950s Hand Drawn Dresses by Hermes

I don’t know very much about these fashions, except that they were captioned ‘Hermes Dresses, 1952’. I love the idea

When Princess Anne married Mark Phillips in November 1973 at Westminster Abbey, she wore a Tudor-inspired dress with a real

50s blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield was married 3 times before her tragic death at the age of just 34. For

So, who knew there was a trend for body jewelry in the 50s? These photos are from 1951 of ‘Cling’

When 21-year-old Mia Farrow married Frank Sinatra (who was 50 at the time) in 1966 she wore an white skirt

Er, I can’t claim to tell you much about these photos except that they were labelled ‘wet proof paper’ 1953.

When Ava Gardner married Frank Sinatra after months of media speculation the world went wild. This was Gardner’s third marriage

If you want to talk fairy tale weddings then Grace Kelly‘s wedding to Prince Rainier III of Monaco was the

Audrey Hepburn married twice, the second time in 1969 to Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti. They married in Morges, Switzerland and

The wedding of Wallis Simpson to Edward, Duke of Windsor in 1937 was one of the most scandalous marriages of

We tend to think of 1950s swimwear as being the height of style and sophistication, and some of it WAS

I love this series of photos. Some of them could have been taken anywhere during the Sixties: the Mary Quant

As promised when I published my favourite women’s outfits from this year’s Goodwood Revival, here are my pick of the

Sadly I couldn’t make it to Goodwood Revival this year. It’s the first year we’ve missed it, but happily Matt

1928 was an interesting turning point in 1920s fashion. The boyish figure of the mid 1920s was starting to become

Have you heard the amazing story of this vintage 1950s wedding dress? It was anonymously donated to the charity St.

If 2014 was primarily the “Year of the Selfie” (see: just about every showbiz article written that year), it was

I love the idea of collating images which give a real flavour of what a place was like at a