
Some ladies are just the kind that last for ages, become iconic and influence designers, illustrators and photographers to reinvent them in many a form, be it through makeup or … Read more
Posted in Illustration | Tagged Alessandro Pautassos, Audrey Hepburn, Digital Art, Hollywood, Icon, Marilyn Monroe, Mixed Media, Portraits, Retro |

By Mario Testino for Vogue UK.
There’s something about this editorial that makes me think of home (Portugal, that is). The tiles, the lush greens, the architecture, the historical drama … Read more
Posted in Editorial | Tagged Black & White, Gemma Ward, Made in Portugal, Mario Testino, Retro, Vogue |

The butterfly effect is a metaphor that deals with the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory; namely that small differences in the initial condition of a … Read more
Posted in Photography | Tagged Bruno Dayan, Butterfly, Cecil Beaton, Craig McDean, David LaChapelle, Drew Barrymore, Eugenio Recuenco, Irving Penn, Mario Sorrenti, Mark Seliger, Michael Thompson, Miles Aldrige, Mood Board, Pierre & Gilles, Retro, Ruven Afanador, Solve Sundsbo, Steven Meisel, Tim Walker, Uma Thurman, Wendy Bevan |

Hitchcock’s Bird remake 2.0…
So…maybe the birds were attacking people because they like shiny and blingy things, if lots of people are mad crazy over their jewelry, why can’t those … Read more
Posted in Editorial, Jewellery, Movies | Tagged Black & White, Eugenio Recuenco, Glamour, Hitchcock, Inspiration, Retro |

Looking at Alex Praeger’s work which I mentioned in the last post, it’s kinda of impossible for me not to think of Alfred Hitchcock. Rightly so? I’m not really … Read more
Posted in Editorial, Movies | Tagged Black & White, Dark, Hitchcock, Inspiration, Peter Lindbergh, Retro, Vogue |

Set in 1960′s L.A. and starring actress Bryce Dallas Howard (The Village, Lady In The Water, etc), this first short by photographer Alex Prager goes for pure, cinematic melodrama, hoping … Read more
Posted in Photography, Video | Tagged Dark, Nowness, Retro, Short |

If you’re an actor, playing pretend is pretty much your everyday routine, so in order to stand out, you really have to do it big time.
Marilyn Monroe arguably is … Read more
Posted in Photography | Tagged Hollywood, Icon, Marilyn Monroe, Playing Pretend, Retro, Richard Avedon |