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villainesfilles · 28 days
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Brigitte Bardot
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driftwooddestiel · 5 months
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favourite genre of franz ferdinand images are ones where one of them is just standing there blankly looking out of place
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like what r u looking at babygirl . cameras not over there
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frenchcurious · 9 months
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Brigitte Bardot pose devant une Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 1969. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.
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thegroovywitch · 1 year
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Brigitte Bardot posing on all-fours at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
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blackswaneuroparedux · 8 months
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The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
Diana Vreeland
The origins of contemporary bikini day may be traced back to a French engineer, a Parisian exotic dancer, a nuclear testing site in the United States, and a postwar fabric shortage.
In 1946, Western Europeans joyously greeted the first war-free summer in years, and French designers came up with fashions to match the liberated mood of the people. Two French designers, Jacques Heim and Louis Réard, developed competing prototypes of the bikini. Heim called his the “atom” and advertised it as “the world’s smallest bathing suit.”
French fashion designer Louis Reard was determined to create an even more scandalous swimsuit. Réard's swimsuit, which was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string, was in fact significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 inches of fabric, Réard promoted his creation as “smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit.”
Réard claimed that the bikini was named for Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear tests by the United States in the Pacific Ocean.
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Louis Réard's bikini was so little that he couldn't find anyone brave enough to wear it. After being rejected by a number of fashion models, he came across Micheline Bernardini. She was a 19-year-old nudist at the Casino de Paris who consented to be the first to try on his daring bikini. Michelle Bernardini debuted this revealing costume at the Piscine Molitor in Paris during a poolside fashion show, and it revolutionised swimwear on 5 July 1946. The bikini was a hit, especially among men, and Bernardini received some 50,000 fan letters.
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Before long, bold young women in bikinis were causing a sensation along the Mediterranean coast. Spain and Italy passed measures prohibiting bikinis on public beaches but later capitulated to the changing times when the swimsuit grew into a mainstay of European beaches in the 1950s. Réard's business soared, and in advertisements he kept the bikini mystique alive by declaring that a two-piece suit wasn’t a genuine bikini “unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.”
But it really took when what we would call cultural influencers took to it. It was in 1953, thanks to Brigitte Bardot, that the bikini became a "must-have" and the history of the bikini became historic, when she was photographed wearing one on the Carlton beach at the Cannes Film Festival. She also wore one in 1956, in the film "Et Dieu… créa la femme".
The United States also caught on to the trend, as it was only two years later that Ursula Andress posed in a white bikini on the poster for the James Bond film, Dr. No. The poster created a considerable marketing coup, and women adopted the bikini. According to a study by Time, 65% of younger women adopted the bikini in 1967.
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There is no question the bikini is hardly modern. Many think they date back to ancient Roman times because of the murals uncovered in excavated ruins in Sicily. This isn’t really true.
Despite the celebrated images from the mosaics in Piazza Armerina, of the ancient Roman girl wearing what looks like a bikini, the answer is, “not really”.  The ancient Roman girls weren’t even first to wear what to our eyes looks like a bikini. However, the fact that we seem to find “bikinis” in ancient depictions should make us rethink our hubristic bias that we in modern times have invented everything and that people in ancient times didn’t know how to live.
Archaeologists have found evidence of bikini-like garments that date to as far back as 5600 BC. That’s roughly 5000 years before the Romans did so. In the Chalcolithic era of around 5600 BC, the mother-goddess of Çatalhöyük, a large ancient settlement in southern Anatolia, was depicted astride two leopards while wearing a bikini-like costume.
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Two-piece garments worn by women for athletic purposes are depicted on Greek urns and paintings dating back to 1400 BC. In fact, even just the notion that women participated in sports in the ancient world should make us sit up and take notice.
Today we tend to imagine women in the ancient world as being practically sequestered in their homes, spinning, weaving and having babies. But this is a gross oversimplification of their role.
Active women of ancient Greece wore a breast band called a mastodeton or an apodesmos, which continued to be used as an undergarment in the Middle Ages. While men in ancient Greece abandoned the perizoma, partly high-cut briefs and partly loincloth, women performers and acrobats continued to wear it.
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In the famous mosaics to be found at Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, the girls who seem to be wearing the “bikini” are Roman and the so-called bikini had already been around for at least 5,000 years by then. In the artwork “Coronation of the Winner” done in floor mosaic in the Chamber of the Ten Maidens (Sala delle Dieci Ragazze) in Sicily the bikini girls are depicted weight-lifting, discus throwing, and running.
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The bikini was gradually done away as Christianity became more influential as the centuries wore on. Christian attitudes towards swimming restricted the clothing of women for centuries, the bikini disappeared from the historical record after the Romans until the early 20th century with Louis Beard’s re-invention of the two piece bathing suit as the ‘bikini’.
Photos: In 1956 Emilio Pucci designed this bikini inspired by the mosaics of the Villa Romana Del Casale in Sicily.
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gatabella · 7 months
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17-year-old Brigitte Bardot posing for fashion magazines, 1951
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pazzesco · 2 months
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Kees van Dongen🎨
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Kees van Dongen - La femme au collier vert - The woman with the green necklace
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Brigitte Bardot posing for Kees Van Dongen and finished portrait
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Femme en blouse blanche - Woman in white blouse
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Kees van Dongen - LAILLA, 1908
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Kees van Dongen - La Femme aux colonnes ou Nu aux colonnes ou Nu à la rose - 1915
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The golden breastplat - 1908
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not-a-bot-just-shy · 8 months
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….I’m so going to hell for this one. Ft. Ian Bardot
( MDNI, No Age In Bio DNI )
Undercover officer or rival gang member Darling infiltrating the Bardots’ home by posing as a maid, being discovered by Ian and threatening him with a gun or knife not to tell anybody… only for him to get immediately hard and fail to listen to a thing you’re saying 😭
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Riviera Style
From St.Tropez to Capri
Diane Berger
Tim Clinch (Photographer), Francesco Venturi (Photographer) 
Scriptum Editions, London 2003, 216 pages, ISBN 9781902686318
euro 30,00
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This gorgeous book—which features both contemporary and archival photos of architecture, interiors, style elements, and celebrities—stunningly reveals the vibrant aesthetics of the Côte d’Azur, the Italian Riviera, and the Amalfi Coast. Following the fabled coastline as it unfolds from St.Tropez to Capri, it offers a glimpse of life in some of Europe’s most glamorous locations: St. Tropez, where Bardot posed for Picasso; Cannes, where Hollywood beauties have paraded their charms; Positano, where Jackie held court with Aristotle Onassis; and Capri, the playground of Sophia Loren and a host of others. Alongside images of the people, places, and landmarks that have come to define the Riviera,  contemporary photos of architecture and interiors provide rich evidence of its enduring appeal. 
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hauyne-sims · 1 year
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Bees and honey lookbook
Model: Chloe
Genetics
Full body skinblend | Face skinblend | Eyes | Eyebrows (brushed eyebrows) | Eyelashes (right lip mole category) | Teeth | Tattoo
Everyday wear
Hair | Outfit | Shoes (platform sandals 02) | Rings (persuasion ring) | Nails | Earrings | Eyeshadow | Eyeliner | Lips | Highlighter
Formal wear
Hair | Outfit | Shoes | Ring 1 (Despina ring) | Ring 2 | Nails *TSR | Earrings (honeycomb earrings) | Eyeshadow (Shari palette) | Eyeliner | Highlighter | Lips
Athletic wear
Hair | Top | Bottoms | Shoes (low top sneaker 03) | Nails | Earrings (wee bee studs) | Lips | Highlighter (base game)
Sleepwear
Hair | Top (tank top) | Bottoms (daydreams jammie shorts) | Bee patches (Jennie skirt patches) | Fingernails | Toenails | Earrings | Lips (fairy gloss) | Highlighter
Party wear
Hair | Top (bardot top with waist chain) | Bottoms | Shoes | Rings *TSR | Nails | Earrings (honeybee earrings) | Necklace (queen bee necklace) | Eyeshadow | Eyeliner (saffron eyeliner) | Blush (fresh makeup set) | Lips (pudding lipstick) | Highlighter
Swimwear
Hair | Outfit | Fingernails | Toenails | Earrings (wee bee studs) | Lips | Highlighter
Hot weather wear
Hair | Outfit (buzzed off dress) | Accessory top (accessory tank top) | Shoes *TSR | Ring (Thalassa ring) | Nails | Hat | Earrings | Necklace (queen bee necklace) | Eyeshadow | Eyeliner | Lips | Highlighter
Cold weather wear
Hair | Top | Bottoms (Jennie skirt) | Bee patches (Jennie skirt patches) | Shoes *TSR | Nails | Stockings (original tights) | Earrings (honeybee earrings) | Eyeshadow | Eyeliner | Blush | Lips (royal jelly) | Highlighter (base game)
Poses: Model poses 21 by @helgatisha
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Himbo Prince #2
This is the link to the first chapter if you missed it.
Pairing: Elvis 1956-1957 x Reader
Warnings: silly, goofy, himbo, fluff
Plot: You have a small part in a movie starring Elvis Presley and you’re obviously very attracted to him, because every girl is.
N/A: Thank you for the encouragement. I’d like everyone to know that I don’t think EP was a “himbo” but it’s fun to think about him that way. Just a few reminders: English is not my first language and I’ve never even been to the USA. I obviously wasn’t alive in 1957! This is my first fanfic ever, so be kind. It stems from conversations on Discord about adorable goofy himbo Elvis from the 1950s. It’s just meant to be a silly fun read.
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You made a silly mistake yesterday. Elvis Presley asked you out, but you ended the evening with a sulky face because you saw him flirt with another girl at a party. You’re on set today, but you have no scenes with him, and you’re dying to talk to him again. You thought about it over and over, obsessing about him and that redhead. How he let her kiss his cheek, how he laughed with her and put a hand on her waist while he was being photographed with her. You came to the conclusion that he was just being nice and posing for the photographer, but it still bothers you a little. You see him talking to his co-star between takes, then standing there for a moment, one hand resting on the neck of his guitar, while his makeup is being fixed. It won’t be long before lunch time. 
While you wait, you decide to go see Susan, who’s the costume designer for the movie. She’s older than you, but she’s always fun to be around. She doesn’t have much to do at the moment so she’s flipping through a magazine with pictures and stories about many stars: Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Liz Taylor and others. She stops in the middle section, on a page with an article about the kind of pen that Elvis uses to sign autographs. They call it a ‘doll-point pen’ for some reason. 
“Look at our boy. Why did they publish this picture of him? He looks dangerous, like a criminal,” she says.
Susan shows you the magazine. In the picture he’s sitting down and looking at the camera with a languid expression, hair greased and slicked back, a thumb pressed on his lip.  
“He’s not really dangerous,“ you explain. “He wants to appear that way.”
Susan is a bit puzzled by your explanation, but she accepts it. You keep flipping through the pages and you are captivated by the image of a girl with shaggy blonde hair holding a dog and smiling at the camera. The caption says it’s a French actress.
“That French girl is really sexy. I wish I was sophisticated like her. You know, from Paris, not some random place nobody has ever heard about.”
Susan disappears from a moment and comes back with a blonde wig for you.
“Here you go. You can be her. Her name is Brigitte Bardot. I have a feeling she’s going to be big.”
You try it on, adjust the long wavy hair as best as you can. Susan even finds you a dress that might look vaguely like European fashion. 
Out of the blue you feel like being silly and playing games. You look at yourself in the mirror and try pouting your lips. You come up with a cheeky idea. Elvis is going to finish his scene really soon and you hope he’s going to invite you to have lunch with him. You want to go meet him looking and sounding like a French actress who just flew in from Cannes Film Festival. “That’d be fun. We’ll have a ball,” you say to yourself.
Once the assistant director has called the lunch break, you look for Elvis. You see him talking to his buddies on his way to his dressing room. They’re cousins and friends from high school who travelled to Hollywood to keep him company. He’s always with them, because he likes to be the center of attention and goof around with them. You knock at the door of the dressing room. He’s laughing, boasting about a pass he made at football the day before. He makes it sound like he’s a superhero saving the world. He’s surprised when he sees you. You know he’ll recognize you, but you fake a French accent just to be silly. He’d love that and you know it. You’re careful to always put the stress on the last syllable. You’re almost bursting into laughter, but you manage to stay serious and to introduce yourself.
“Monsieur Prezlee, I am visiting from Paris and… I wanted to met you. I have listened all of your records in France.”
You extend a hand and he shakes it smiling to you.
“Nice to meet you. I’d like to be able to visit Paris one day. Maybe you could show me around,” he says cockily to you in front of his friends. 
Is he acting the fool or did he not recognize you? He’s trying his best to look worldly, but he’s a little intimidated by you. He seems pleased by your presence though and invites you to sit down next to him. He keeps the conversation going. 
“What are French cats listening to? How do you say ‘cat’ in French?”
You have no idea, so you answer that they’re all listening to him. Good lord, he really did not recognize you.
He’s silent for a few moments, then he says something unexpected.
“You know… American soldiers did this thing with French girls, when they were stationed in France. They looked at them intensely…”
At this point Elvis puts his hand on your shoulder and stares at you. You’re alarmed. Is he going to tell you something spicy right there in front of everybody? You are a bit surprised when Elvis boops you on the nose. 
“That’s what they did,” he says to you with a cheeky smile. If any other guy had done that you would have considered it dumb, but he’s Elvis Presley and he’s adorable, even when he makes cheesy jokes that are not funny. You really hope that you’re having lunch with him today. When he finally invites you, you take off your wig, he says he knew it was you, but did he? You’re not so sure.
You decide to eat at Café Continental together. It’s a restaurant inside the studio, which allows for some privacy. Elvis doesn’t go to restaurants that much these days, because he’s constantly being mobbed by fans. He says he doesn’t miss it, but you’re not sure if he’s telling you the truth.
Once you’re inside and you’re sitting down facing each other, he picks up the menu. He’s been there many times and makes you notice something.
“This place is funny, I’m telling you. I don’t know half of the things they serve here. I always eat hamburgers with French fries. Look here. See what they’re called in the menu? ‘Hamburger Sandwich with Shoestring Potatoes’.” 
There are also dishes named after movie stars. You start poking fun at the menu with all the star names and the food you’ve never heard of. You fake a posh accent and pretend to order a ‘Dorothy Lamour Salad’. Elvis watches you amused and seriously considers ordering a ‘Special Perlberger a la Seaton’, just because he has no idea what it is and he wants to know. While he’s at it, fumbling his words through the long name, the waitress comes and greets him as if he were an old friend. 
No Perlberger for Elvis. He has a special order of four big burgers on his plate and a lot of thinly-cut French fries. He gobbles up his burgers as if he hasn’t eaten anything in three days and between bites he’s putting as many fries as he can into his mouth. He doesn’t use condiments on them: he doesn’t like ketchup and mayo apparently is bad for his voice, although you’ve never heard that before. You can’t say he has the best table manners, but he has the innocence of a little child and he’s really enjoying his food. 
Elvis starts discussing actors he’s met and others he wishes to meet. He hopes Marlon Brando will show up some day because he has heard he’s a regular at the restaurant when he’s filming a movie at Paramount Studios. He’s really excited at the prospect, obviously, but he’s terrified that he might order something strange like a sardine sandwich. It’s the worst thing they serve there, according to him. 
“That bastard stinks so bad. I-I- I can’t stand the smell. I would be sitting at the other end of the table w-w-with a hand over my nose. Damn Brando, Louise told me he stinks the whole place with his sandwich.” He points at the waitress that served you the food. 
While he’s discussing this, he steals some fries - sorry, some ‘shoestring potatoes’ - from your plate, so you have no other choice but to take the ketchup bottle and put some of it all over your fries. You’re doing it on purpose, so he doesn’t eat them all, but you make it look like you’re doing it as absentmindedly as possible.
“This boy needs to be trained like a puppy,” you think slightly amused. Luckily, he learned his lesson because he doesn’t touch the rest of your shoestring potatoes. 
You’re feeling comfortable with him, so you gently tease him about his movie star status.
“Hey, maybe one day they’ll have an Elvis Presley special on the menu”.
You said it innocently, but Elvis is laughing from head to toe. 
“And what would that be? Chicken and dumplings?”
He finds it amusing. After a short pause he comes up with an idea.
“They could put on the menu a sandwich my mama makes. Even though it’s a bit unusual and nobody else makes it...”
He must have regretted getting excited about his mama’s sandwich, because he doesn’t want to tell you what’s in the sandwich, no matter how curious you are. You’ll have to find out about this sandwich one way or another, because you want to make it for him. 
Obviously, once you’ve both finished eating, he takes the bill and leaves a good tip. He gives a little wink to the girl at the cash register, whose excitement cannot be easily contained. 
“This puppy needs a good boy award”, you finally judge. You almost bite your lip thinking about the possibilities. For a moment you imagine all the people in the studio disappearing and your lips touching his, but the reality is that there are so many people around you and you have to be back at work immediately. Maybe you should just peck him on the cheek and run to get ready for your scene. You’re not really sure you’ll have the courage to do it with everyone watching. All the time people are turning around to stare at him, girls giggle, men want to shake his hand, that sort of thing. While you’re still figuring out how to reward him for being such a sweetheart and for making you laugh with his fear of sardine sandwiches, he takes your hand in his and kisses it lightly and gallantly. He keeps your hand close to his mouth for a moment. You’re floating above your feet and you’re sure you already have stars in your eyes.
He whispers in a low voice, “See you around, honey. I’ve gotta run.” Checking his watch because he’s running late on his busy schedule, he quickly disappears and rejoins the film crew.
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skyblep · 1 year
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every once a while i'll remember how artists to this day will redo bardot's poses/fashion in photos and i'm like oh shit! despite it all this woman had a vast impact on pop culture somewhat
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beautyarchive · 2 years
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C.J. fantasizing about posing as Marilyn Monroe and another classic movie star in the ‘K-Gas the Groove Yard of Solid Gold’ episode of Baywatch.
Can anyone tell me who she’s imagining herself as in the second screenshot? Is it Brigitte Bardot? Jayne Mansfield?
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styleofdiamandis · 1 year
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                   PHOTOSHOOT: LOVE + FEAR ALBUM
Marina teamed up with world-renowned photographer Zoey Grossman for the visuals of her fourth studio album titled "Love + Fear" back in October 2018. Serving a clean aesthetic, this album is all about Marina's mentality and feelings. The good and the bad sides. The light and the dark. And this shoot represents it well.
Styling by Mercedes Natalia. Hair by Marissa Marino, glam by Katelin Gan.
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For her hauntingly beautiful album cover, Marina wears nothing but a pair of the  statement-making Gemma crystal cascade earrings by accessoriy designer Rebecca Minkoff.
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For the second look of the photoshoot's black & white section, Marina sported the Amelie polka-dot ruffle trim bardot top by California-based swimwear label Vitamin A! She wore it with a pair of skinny jeans with raw hem by Levi’s.
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Many of these photos made it into various magazines. This one made it into Vogue Greece! She’s looking fine in a Ganni ivory knitted sweater featuring 3/4 sleeves and a ribbed mock neck. Her Dusk belted bikini bottoms are by Australian label Peony, which you’ll see more of later.
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She decorated her sweater with a Chanel pearl-embellished double C logo brooch!
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In this shot Marina is serving us face while wearing yet another piece from Peony. This is their frill-trimmed crop top made from recycled and sustainable Italian fabric. It features thick shoulder straps and a shirred back.
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Her “You Are Beautiful” pink felt beret is fruit of the collaboration between UK designer Mary Benson and television and radio presenter Gemma Cairney.
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The amount of swimwear we’ll see in this shoot is amazing. For these visuals, which were used for the “Superstar” single cover, M sits in the pool rocking a black swimsuit with asymmetrically draped shoulder from “loose luxury” label Baja East’s Spring/Summer 2017 collection.
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We’re getting into some color now. Here, the Welsh beauty poses in a white cropped tie-waist shirt which she wore on top of a Solid & Striped neon-green one-piece swimsuit with open back.
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Her Cupido vintage-inspired gold-tone brass heart earrings are signed by Reliquia. Make sure to shop their stunning jewelry right here.
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My favorite look from the entire shoot has to be this one! The lavender ribbed one-piece scoop neck swimsuit, our girl looks so good in, is by Topshop! But it’s the accessories that made it for me.
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Firstly, Marina rocked a DiorClub1 visor from Dior’s Spring/Summer 2018 collection. The white & black structure is embellished by the "J'Adior" signature, while the transparent yellow visor recalls the colorful universe of the collection. The "Christian Dior" woven elastic is adjustable to offer maximum comfort.
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Her shoulder-gracing teardrop earrings in gold & silver are by emerging jewelry brand TUZA.
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The last accessory is this vintage Celine gold chain-link belt with Triomphe logo charm.
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In this close-up shot, M wears a pair of vintage-inspired twisted gold hoops from Free People.
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For the penultimate look (an outtake, actually!) Marina can be seen repping this Tory Burch Gemini black one-piece swimsuit with gold link shoulder detail.
So luxe lookin’!
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Our very last maillot comes from Marysia! This is their Santa Barbara one-piece swimsuit in black ($325.00). It features a one-shoulder silhouette and a super fun scalloping detail all over. Grab it below while you can!
Shop:
Marysia “Santa Barbara” Maillot ($325.00)
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Finally, her hammered gold-tone drop earrings are from New Look. Unfortunately, they’re not available anymore.
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whileiamdying · 1 year
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Raquel Welch, Actress and ’60s Sex Symbol, Is Dead at 82
Beginning with a doeskin bikini in “One Million Years B.C.,” she built a celebrated show business career around sex appeal and, sometimes, a comic touch.
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When Playboy in 1998 named the 100 sexiest female stars of the 20th century, Raquel Welch came in third, after Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.  Credit... Sunset Boulevard/Corbis, via Getty Images
By Anita Gates
Feb. 15, 2023
Raquel Welch, the voluptuous movie actress who became the 1960s’ first major American sex symbol and maintained that image for a half-century in show business, died on Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 82.
Her death was confirmed by her son, Damon Welch. No cause was given.
Ms. Welch’s Hollywood success began as much with a poster as with the film it publicized. Starring in “One Million Years B.C.” (1966) as a Pleistocene-era cave woman, she posed in a rocky prehistoric landscape, wearing a tattered doeskin bikini, and grabbed the spotlight by the throat with her defiant, alert-to-everything, take-no-prisoners stance and her dancer’s body. She was 26. It had been four years since Marilyn Monroe’s death, and the industry needed a goddess.
Camille Paglia, the feminist critic, described the poster photograph as “the indelible image of a woman as queen of nature.” Ms. Welch, she went on, was “a lioness — fierce, passionate and dangerously physical.”
When Playboy in 1998 named the 100 sexiest female stars of the 20th century, Ms. Welch came in third — right after Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. Brigitte Bardot was fourth.
The critics were often unkind. Throughout her career, Ms. Welch was publicly admired more for her anatomy than for her dramatic abilities. She even called her 2010 book, a memoir and self-help guide, “Beyond the Cleavage.”
But when she had a chance to show off her comic abilities, they were kinder. Ms. Welch won a Golden Globe for her role in Richard Lester’s 1973 adaptation of “The Three Musketeers”; her character was a hopelessly klutzy 17th-century Frenchwoman, torn between two lives — as a landlord’s wife and the queen’s seamstress.
Despite a career based largely on sex appeal, Ms. Welch repeatedly refused to appear nude onscreen. “Personally, I always hated feeling so exposed and vulnerable” in love scenes, she wrote in her memoir, noting that even when she appeared in a prestigious Merchant Ivory film (“The Wild Party,” 1975), the filmmakers, those acclaimed arbiters of art-house taste, pressured her to do a nude bedroom scene, to no avail.
“I’ve definitely used my body and sex appeal to advantage in my work, but always within limits,” she said. But, she added, “I reserve some things for my private life, and they are not for sale.”
Jo-Raquel Tejada was born in Chicago on Sept. 5, 1940, the oldest of three children of Armando Carlos Tejada, a Bolivian-born aeronautical engineer, and Josephine Sarah (Hall) Tejada, an American of English descent. They had met as students at the University of Illinois.
When Raquel was 2, the family moved to Southern California for her father’s work in the war effort. At 7, encouraged by her mother, she enrolled at San Diego Junior Theater, where her only early disappointment was being cast in her first play as a boy. She began ballet classes the same year and continued to study dance for a decade.
After graduating from La Jolla High School in San Diego, where her nickname was Rocky, she received a scholarship — thanks to success in local beauty pageants — to study theater at San Diego State College. But she dropped out at 19 to marry her high school boyfriend, James Wesley Welch. Because of her local celebrity, she landed a job as the “weather girl” on KFMB, a San Diego television station.
The birth of her two children complicated her career plans, but she soon left her husband — “the most painful decision of my entire life,” she called it — and moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. (They divorced in 1964.)
She had hoped to move to New York instead, she recalled. But the trip would have been prohibitively expensive, and, anyway, she didn’t own a winter coat.
It was not long before she had a contract with a major studio, 20th Century Fox. She had early hopes of making her big-screen debut in a James Bond movie; the producer Albert R. Broccoli wanted her for “Thunderball.” But that dream was quashed when she was cast in “Fantastic Voyage” (1966), a science fiction film about scientists reduced to microscopic size to travel inside a diseased human body. Then came “One Million Years B.C.,” and that did it.
“There’s a certain thing about that white-hot moment of first fame that is just pure pain,” Ms. Welch said in an interview with Cigar Aficionado magazine in 2001. “It’s just not comfortable. I felt like I was supposed to be perfect. And because everybody was looking at me so hard, I felt there was so much to prove.”
She appeared in some two dozen films over the next decade, perhaps most notably “Myra Breckinridge” (1970), based on Gore Vidal’s campy novel, in which she played a glamorous transgender woman, and “The Last of Sheila” (1973), a semi-campy murder mystery with a luxury-yacht setting and a script by Stephen Sondheim.
Some of her most memorable roles were small ones. In “Bedazzled” (1967), Stanley Donen’s Faustian fantasy with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, she played Lust, one of the Seven Deadly Sins; in “The Magic Christian” (1969), with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, her character’s name was Mistress of the Whip.
Ms. Welch had love scenes with the former football star Jim Brown in “100 Rifles” (1969), a western set in Mexico. She followed “The Three Musketeers” with its 1974 sequel, but those films never led to the sophisticated comedy opportunities she had hoped for. (She did, however, have a memorable chance to display her comedic side years later, when she played herself in a 1997 episode of “Seinfeld.”)
After “Mother, Jugs and Speed” (1976), a farce about ambulance drivers (which also starred Bill Cosby and Harvey Keitel), her screen acting was limited mostly to television guest appearances.
But she had already discovered the joys of stage work. Inspired after seeing Frank Sinatra’s nightclub act, Ms. Welch made her club debut, singing and dancing, at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1973. Eight years later she made her Broadway debut, hired as a two-week vacation replacement for Lauren Bacall in the hit musical “Woman of the Year.” Her reviews were so admiring (Mel Gussow’s in The New York Times ended by writing, “One hopes that Miss Welch will soon find a musical of her own”) that she returned the next year for a six-month stint in the role.
“The first minute I stepped out on that stage and the people began applauding,” she told The Times later, “I just knew I’d beaten every bad rap that people had hung on me.” She returned to Broadway in 1997, replacing Julie Andrews for seven weeks in “Victor/Victoria.”
In 1987, Ms. Welch published “The Raquel Welch Total Beauty and Fitness Program,” which included exercises based on the principles of hatha yoga. She released a companion video with the same title.
Michael Levenson contributed reporting.
A correction was made on Feb. 15, 2023: An earlier version of this obituary misstated how much time elapsed between Marilyn Monroe’s death and the release of the movie “One Million Years B.C.” It was four years, not three.
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