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Vintage Photography: Brigitte Helm in in Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film ‘Metropolis’ with the Yoshiwara Costume. @designerwallace

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If you never saw Fritz Lang's classic science 1927 fiction film Metropolis, you owe it to yourself to watch this early bit of cinematic history, with its

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Germany, 1925

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When creating the 1920s Flapper inspired headband I had the glamorous flappers and vaudeville girls of the 1910s and 1920s for inspiration....

I guess I am really feeling all 1920s lately because I just wanted to post some photos of some pretty 1920s girls today. The first gal is ...

The beautiful queen herself, Violet Chachki

Front I know this doesn't look like a whole lot, but boy did it take a long time to drape! One of our most recent assignments in Draping class was to drape a dress based on a modern fashion image of a draped dress. The original was made of primitive pleated silk. We replicated it with primitive pleated taffeta. First we draped and constructed a darted shift for underneath the dress. Then the fashion fabric was draped on the form over the shift. To finish the dress, the drape would be hand…

O NCE UPON A TIME , there was an artist, a storyteller and a 1960's Bedford RL lorry... They lived in troubled times – sometimes it seeme...

Berlin Gay Cabaret, ca 1922.

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