Breakfast at Tiffany’s remains one the best loved films of all time, even fifty-one years after its release. It could be said this is partly due to the screenplay based on Truman Capote’s book and the portrayal of Holly Golightly by Audrey Hepburn, but I would the gorgeous fashions created by Hubert de Givenchy to [...]

A word of advice from fashion icon and costumier to the stars: “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.” Nowadays, many people outside of Hollywood may not recognize the name Edith Head, but forty years ago that was a different story. Born in 1897, Edith Head was an American [...]

HaoJan via photo pin cc If you are going to be a collector of vintage fashions, it would be helpful to have a basic knowledge of the various styles and the time periods in which they were first popularized. This type of information is especially useful when shopping online—you want to make sure that you [...]

One thing that can’t be denied is that hemlines have changed dramatically in the past 100 plus years in Western culture. From the floor-length hemlines of the fin de siècle to the micro-minis of our most recent decade (and the even non-existent skirt in some cases… think of tights with just a blouse), it is [...]