Edie Sedgwick: troubled, rebellious, charming, talented & beautiful. A girl who got carried away, but still she had the ability (which not a lot of people have) to walk into a room and have all the attention on her. Andy could notice it in her within seconds of meeting her. Main look would be a black leotard, giant earrings, painted brows & painted eyes.
Pattie Boyd: innocent, gap toothed, pretty girl look. Probably can pull off any style. Typical 60's go-go girl. Main look would be little black dress, black mary-jane heels and a headband.
Marianne Faithfull: biker, rock chick, fur & leather. The main inspiration of mine. Innocent face yet apparently not innocent character. Influential style from her film
Girl on a Motorcycle. M
ain look would be faux fur coat, leather trousers, big rings and messy hair, 'glam boheme'.
Jane Birkin: brunette with a bambi face & doe eyes. Ex girlfriend & muse of musical icon Serge Gainsbourg. Notice how in every picture it's pretty much the same facial expression - wide eyed as if in shock, but also innocence. Main look would be simplistic jewellery, simplistic hair and a white crochet dress with loafers and a straw satchel.
Brigitte Bardot: the sex symbol of the sixties. Famous for her versatile hair, wide eyes and gap toothed pout. Influential to alot of people these days such as Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, Lara Stone & Georiga May Jagger. Main look would be leopard print, black leather jacket, lip liner, eyeliner, and bouffant hair.
Twiggy: last but not least. A supermodel, one of the most influential & inspirational girls of all time. Everything about Twiggy is unique, or was at the time. Which is why she set a style and changed the way people looked at fashion & beauty. Main look would be heavily painted eyes, patent pumps, defined brows and a black & white Mary Quant dress.
These are all the women that highly influence my image. Inspirational all for different ways and truly iconic. Nothing about them was false, pretentious or put on and they were legends because they were themselves, not because they put on an act or cry for attention (minus Edie Sedgwick in certain circumstances perhaps), but still, Edie was famous and well liked
because of the act and confidence she put on. They set the scene for many models, actresses & musicians today and I think someone who can inspire generations after them definitely deserves such a high status, and better still a place on this blog post. xo
The sixties mod is coming back big time this Autumn/Winter (thank God). And this editorial for Fall i-d by Richard Bush featuring the one & only Abbey Lee shows off the trend perfectly. I can't think of a model of the moment who is better suited to 1960's style than Abbey Lee, I always said she had the perfect face for a 60's dolly girl.
I thought I'd share these pictures with all of you sixties lovers. As I was browsing through some old photos, I came across these, from a photoshoot I had back in January in Notthing Hill, with some acquaintances of my father. My hair was much redder back then, I am tempted to dye it again, although my natural colour is just breaking through. The idea for the photshoot was the 1960's, but portrayed through makeup in three different ways. Rana was an excellent makeup artist and made it look so perfect and 60's style. After spending the day in Notting Hill, I decided to make it a life long goal of mine to own a studio flat there. PS - I can't wink to save my life. (Leopard print jacket from ASOS).
Photos and makeup credited to: Kay Hui & Rana Boulos.
Post dedicated to Anita Pallenberg. So powerful & inspirational that she set the trend for the influence of black magic & witchcraft in fashion, cast a spell on almost all of the original Stones members and was the entire inspiration for Brian, Mick & Keith's late sixties wardrobe. At the same time as portraying elegance and natural beauty, she was well known for her addictive, loud personality and rock n' roll attitude. A clash which can only work well as a Rolling Stones' girlfriend of course. 
Although this editorial has been splashed across the fashion blogs for a little while now and many of you may have already seen it, I felt the need to re-post it, so those of you who haven't yet seen it can. It's always so refreshing to come across editorials or campaigns based on the sixties and seventies style and with a name like 'Almost Famous' you almost instantly know what the influences will be. With thanks to the likes of Spanish Moss and American Gold's creativity and ever growing success, the bohemian style of late 1960's California has sprung back into the fashion and blogging world again. Not to mention the influences from Wicca, religion and Native Americans, alltogether creating the whole 'bohemian' image.
Pattie Boyd: innocent, gap toothed, pretty girl look. Probably can pull off any style. Typical 60's go-go girl. Main look would be little black dress, black mary-jane heels and a headband.
Marianne Faithfull: biker, rock chick, fur & leather. The main inspiration of mine. Innocent face yet apparently not innocent character. Influential style from her film Girl on a Motorcycle. Main look would be faux fur coat, leather trousers, big rings and messy hair, 'glam boheme'.
Jane Birkin: brunette with a bambi face & doe eyes. Ex girlfriend & muse of musical icon Serge Gainsbourg. Notice how in every picture it's pretty much the same facial expression - wide eyed as if in shock, but also innocence. Main look would be simplistic jewellery, simplistic hair and a white crochet dress with loafers and a straw satchel.
Brigitte Bardot: the sex symbol of the sixties. Famous for her versatile hair, wide eyes and gap toothed pout. Influential to alot of people these days such as Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, Lara Stone & Georiga May Jagger. Main look would be leopard print, black leather jacket, lip liner, eyeliner, and bouffant hair.
Twiggy: last but not least. A supermodel, one of the most influential & inspirational girls of all time. Everything about Twiggy is unique, or was at the time. Which is why she set a style and changed the way people looked at fashion & beauty. Main look would be heavily painted eyes, patent pumps, defined brows and a black & white Mary Quant dress.
Failing better words - an amazing photoshoot inspired by the groupies of the sixties and seventies for http://www.ilovewildfox.com/. I would love to do a photoshoot like this - capturing that scene with those clothes can really make you feel like you're living in 1969 again. I just wish it wasn't all a dream. 
