Category: Vintage Advertising and Illustration

Memorable, haunting, enchanting…

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It all began in 1912 when Guerlain launched Heure Bleue.  Anyone who caught a whiff of that iris, heliotrope, 
jasmine and Bulgarian rose felt transported into the first twilight of the world, when the first stars were scintillating ...  
The Midnight Love Feast by Michel Tournier
➔ La Maison Guerlain
L’ Heure Bleue, 1912
Jacques Guerlain, Perfumer
Raymond Guerlain, Bottle Designer, in collaboration with Baccarat
New York Magazine ~ May 4, 1970

Few companies, French or otherwise, have as romantic and regal a history as GUERLAIN.  The company was founded in 1828 by Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain at a time when perfume – indeed the entire world of beauty products – wasn’t yet an industry.  But Guerlain would change all that.  Before the century was out, the house had won the favor of Empress Eugénie (wife of Napoleon III) and had made specially commissioned scents for clients as diverse as Balzac and Sarah Bernhardt…
[New York Magazine Jun 5, 1989] 

Plumes et Plumetis

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John Rawlings ~ Hanes hosiery, 1964

John Rawlings was a Condé Nast Publications fashion photographer from the 1930s through the 1960s. Rawlings left a significant body of work, including 200 Vogue and Glamour magazine covers to his credit and 30,000 photos in archive, maintained by curator Kohle Yohannan.
 
Rawlings was in the elite circle of top Vogue photographers Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, and George Platt Lynes. His archive includes photographs of stage, screen, and society stars of the 1940s and 1950s, including Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dali, Veronica Lake, Bridget Bate Tichenor and Montgomery Clift.

➔ John Rawlings: 30 Years in Vogue