Magazine ad for Hart Schaffner & Marx found in a December 5, 1960 issue of Sports Illustrated
Great art direction for this menswear ad, oozing style and confidence, but now I want to find out more about the cool chair the suited dude is sitting in. Somebody thought it could be a Lucite chair but I’m not sure. Anyone know?
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Photo from the other side of a loose Life magazine ad from 1959 that I picked up a while back.
Just an awesome photo take long before Photoshop was a thing.
I dug a bit looking for a Google image search match to see if I could find the photographer’s name, but alas. If I ever find that out, I’ll let you know.
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Sometimes the cover of vintage magazine catches my eye more than others and I end up digging around to learn more about it. This was one of those times, especially since this particular Vogue magazine from April 1, 1950, wasn’t listed in the lot I won on eBay and received a few weeks ago. I’m not complaining, as another copy of this issue recently sold on eBay for $249.
The cover photo of “Queen of Fashion Inc.” Jean Patchett is by Irving Penn and was the first black and white Vogue cover since they started using color in 1909. The black lipstick Patchett wore was MacGyver’d from mascara to maximize the contrast. Penn was rather prolific and prodigious for Vogue, shooting 165 covers between 1943 and 2009.
Additional trivia: A 17”x15” signed print of this Irving Penn photograph sold for $481,000 at a 2008 Christie’s auction.