This Freedom featuring Alcone Beauty
'Our standards are so completely changed from the old that comparison or argument is impossible.' Cecil Beaton, 1928.
In the 1920s, women were waking up from a post-Great War slumber and rising as vaseline-lidded flappers. Shaking off their hospital and munitions factory uniforms to 'bob their hair, raise their hemlines & paint their faces', '...they smoked hard, swore hard, and drank hard - got 'blotto'. more...
Victoriana: The First Blush of Spring featuring Alcone Beauty
Spring suggests a lighter hand, a waif of subtle color and texture and what better to show this than with a nod to the era of restraint and elegance. It conjures the mysterious combination of the uncomfortable and the inconvenient with the frivolous and decorative. Recapture the vision, and impose your serenity on the season. Vive le Victoriana! more...