Showing posts with label Marilyn Monroe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marilyn Monroe. Show all posts

June 1, 2013

marilyn's birthday

b. June 1, 1926

“I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
 things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
 and sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

ciao! fabiana

July 2, 2012

a very vintage 4th of July

Marilyn Monroe

A few vintage starlets posing in
patriotic themed promotional pics.

Wouldn’t they have been
fabulous in color!

Ann Miller

Cyd Charisse

Elizabeth Taylor

Vera Ellen

Ann Miller
Ann Sheridan

Jayne Mansfield

Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward & Virginia Dale


Mae West

ciao! fabiana

May 12, 2012

beverly hills hotel celebrates 100 years




The iconic pink and green
Beverly Hills Hotel

turns 100 today.

Originally the hotel was white.

Many weddings have taken place here at the BH Hotel, including my best friend, Lisa's.




1948: The hotel is painted pink, dubbed the "Pink Palace,"
as part of a redesign during the 1940's by  architect Paul Williams.

The famous banana leaf wallpaper is just as iconic as the hotel itself.

The red carpet is rolled out all year .

Poolside circa the 1950's.



The exterior of the hotel was featured on the album cover art
of the 
Eagles' 1976 LP "Hotel California". 

Svend Petersen, the pool manager at the hotel for 42 years, had notably opened up the pool after
 hours for 
The Beatles and taught Faye Dunaway to swim a freestyle crawl for Mommie Dearest.
Faye is pictured here, the morning after she won an Oscar for the film Network in 1976.


One of my favorites, Rita Hayworth posing during the 1940's.

Dean Martin and his posse photographed at a wedding (his perhaps).

The sand and pool club opened in 1938.

The umbrellas are so cute.


Harold Lloyd on the lush hotel grounds.

The drive leading to  the hotel is breathtaking.

Another one of my favorites Carol Burnett.

An Easter egg hunt.  

Cesar Romero and Carole Lombard

1942: The  El Jardin restaurant is renamed the
Polo Lounge, in honor of polo players.
 (Marlena Dietrich at the Polo Lounge)


1957: Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall's film "Designing Woman"
 is shot at hotel's pool, Cabana Club.

Peck and Bacall poolside during a break in filming.

1959: Marilyn Monroe  relaxing and on a break,
 while filming  "Let's Make Love".



ciao! fabiana

November 11, 2011

l b d : the little black dress




The little black dress 
has been a go-to item in women's closets for  decades.

With the holidays approaching,
make sure you have one in your closet.  
It can be accessorized in infinite ways
and is always a classic.


Anne Hathaway dresses hers up with a gorgeous red peep-toe.


Vogue magazine said that
the LBD
would become
"a sort of uniform for all women of taste."


Katie Holmes with a nude shoe

Kate Winslet syle

Jessica Alba with a red satin shoe

Always stunningly simple Jennifer Aniston

Halle Berry -wow!

Gwyneth Paltrow

Fergie, also wearing red footwear

Blake Lively in one of my favorite LBDs

Angelina Jolie is simply chic

Angelina in St. John

One of my faves, Anne Hathaway 

Emma Stone also rockin' the red shoe

Ditto with Rachel Bilson

Scarlett Johansson in black head to toe

Nicole Ritchie in an asymmetrical  LBD with leopard

 3 x K = KLBD  Who did the LBD best? 

Nobody does it better that Kate and Diana

Wallace Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor
was quoted as saying,
"When a little black dress is right,

there is nothing else to wear in it's place."

Innovator Coco Chanel

Rita Hayworth as the iconic "Gilda"

Look at that figure on Natalie Wood!

Marilyn Monroe in an outfit that is still so "in' today

Lauren Bacall in black satin

the captivating Elizabeth Taylor

Marilyn in a simple but plunging LBD 

Grace Kelly in "Rear Window"

Jackie Kennedy in a classic shift

"Black outfits are being paired with
 a single embellishment such as
the fabulous little black dress
with a pearl detail at the neck -very Audrey Hepburn." 

--Betsy Thompson 


P.S. Even Elaine sported an LBD
 in this famous dance scene! 

Click here for more Little Black Dresses!



ciao! fabiana

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