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For the Love of Vintage
The Minnesota History Center's RetroRama event is tomorrow (Thursday) night.
Note: The promotional photo at left was stolen from the History Center's site. But I feel entitled to it, since it features a moonlighting model/Rake staff member.
In any case, about that event: Five local designers, including milliner/ Voltage producer Anna Lee, went digging through the History Center's enormous textile archives, trolling for inspiration. Tomorrow's runway show features the fivesome's vintage-styled dresses, menswear, and accessories. Also on display (i.e., worn by mannequins with twenty-four-inch waists) will be various pieces from the History Center archives (too fragile to let teetering models touch). Vintage entities unto themselves, The New Standards are providing the musical backdrop. (They're not my favorite band, but I hear Al Franken likes 'em.) And stand-up retro retailers such as Succotash and Up Six will be selling their wares. Martinis and mid-century appetizers (pigs in blankets, anyone? or perhaps a pickle roll-up?) will be handily available, too.
If you can't make it, don't despair. I'll be there, with Elph in hand. Check back on Friday for the report.
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Retro, indeed--right down to the photography. There's a famous photograph by Edward Steichen, the undisputed leader of fashion photography in the Jazz Age, very much like the one above--the 70/30 split colors, etc., though he would have added a spray of flowers or something for balance. Anyway, I'd be there supporting so many friends if I weren't headed back on the road, this time to Duluth, staying in a trailer (don't ask). Glad you're back in the blog game.
Thanks for noticing the RetroRama photo. A lot of talented and generous people contributed to it. Edward Steichen, however, was not one of them.
Rather, I had combed through a stack of vintage magazines in the Society's collections and found a fabulous ad for "Adele Simpson New York" (Vogue, Sept 15, 1948) featuring a very confident woman striking a devil-may-care pose over a split background.
Photographer Lucas Saugen (www.SaugenPhotography.com), with contributions from a make-up artist, vintage clothing loans and donated model talent, worked hard to recreate the image.
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