Spy Vibers, are you redecorating your pad and lair right now? You might want to check out the newest image collection from our friend at Art & Hue. Odysseas Constantine has released nice duotone prints in the past featuring fan-favorites like The Avengers, Hammer Horror, Jet Age airports, Carry On films, Brit Noir, Mod hair styles, and Beat films. He's now added 1960s Models to the portfolio, which includes iconic figures such as Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Veruschka, and Peggy Moffitt. More info here and keep on swinging'! In other news, my next episode on Cocktail Nation is coming up! In the meantime, you can hear Episode #1 (Danger Man) and Episode #2 (The 10th Victim), Epsiode #3 (On Her Majesty's Secret Service). In each segment I do a short introduction to a film or TV series and share some classic (often rare) music. Enjoy! Related posts: Jet Set Prints, Interview: Avengers Pop Art, Thunderbirds Are Pop, New Avengers Pop, Beat Film Pop.
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Spy Vibe has covered the space-age fashion of the 1960s extensively in its first three years. It's a topic dear to my heart, and evidentially to our readers, as well. Our post, Mods to Moongirls, has been visited over 35,000 times. Designers like Cardin, Rabanne, and Courreges are local heroes. As Victoria & Albert curator, Jane Pavitt, has discussed in her writing, much of the inspiration for the moon-look came from the styles developed by NASA, and spoke of modernism and the growing cultural anxieties over radiation. The fashion designers were early adopters of cutting-edge materials from the science sector, and masses of slender baby boomers cut the modern look in their new synthetics. Looking back at some of the images by Richard Avedon, we can also find examples of true NASA style being adopted by the mavens of high fashion and pop culture. Here are just a few examples from Avedon that include Jean Shrimpton and Paul McCartney.
The reflective surface of the Gemini suits had both an athletic and fetish quality that reminds me of this quote by artist, Andy Warhol: “It was a
perfect time to think silver. Silver was the future. It was spacey. Astronauts
wore silver suits. And their equipment was silver, too. And silver was also the
past. The Silver Screen. Hollywood actresses photographed in silver sets. And
maybe more than anything else, silver was narcissism. Mirrors were backed with
silver.” –Andy Warhol
Over ten years after the Gemini silver suit, designers kept its retro chic look alive for James Bond's mission in space in Moonraker. James Coburn as Derek Flint images below from Hello Spaceman here (check it out for some fun Doctor Who images with the Cybermen!).
