#flair magazine

[kitsunetsuki]

Steve Hiett - Anjelica Huston Wearing a Gown by Georgina LInhart (Flair 1971)

#steve hiett #anjelica huston #flair magazine #photography #fashion photography #vintage fashion #vintage style #vintage #retro #aesthetic #beauty #seventies #70s #70s fashion #70s style #1970s #1970s fashion #supermodel #editorial #actress

[venusimleder]

Flair, March 2006.

#flair magazine #00s #editorial #hussein chalayan #photographer??

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

When I first saw these magazines, I knew they were post-worthy because of their highly-stylized design and lovely covers. Upon further investigation, I discovered that they are issues of the short-lived and well-remembered Flair magazine, helmed by Fleur Cowles (pronounced “coals”).

Fleur Cowles (1908-2009) was born Florence Friedman on January 20, 1908 in New York. She later changed her first name to Fleur and her last name to Fenton. She worked as a writer and advertising executive in her earlier years, founding the Pettingell & Fenton, Inc. agency with her second husband, Atherton Pettingell, Jr. After she divorced Pettingell, she married Gardner “Mike” Cowles, changing her name to Fleur Cowles—a name which she kept professionally, despite remarrying once more. It was Mike Cowles, editor and co-founder of Look magazine and co-owner of the Cowles Media Company, who bankrolled the publication of Fleur’s vision for Flair. 

Flair ran from February of 1950 to January of 1951, and lost an estimated 2.5 million dollars (the equivalent of 24.7 million dollars in today’s money). The reason it was highly unprofitable (despite being sold at a price point set higher than other magazines) was Fleur’s dedication to producing a singular vision, what a Vanity Fair feature called “the most outrageously beautiful, visually daring, and extravagantly inventive magazine ever conceived.” The magazine was expensive to make, with different textured stock, die-cut punch-outs, and issues like the May 1950 Rose issue, which was opulently scented. It’s truly a work of art, and the issues also include many famous names, like W. H. Auden, Simone de Beauvoir, Winston Churchill, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, and Tennessee Williams. I wish I could show more of the interiors, but the magazines’ bindings are quite fragile and could not be scanned aside from the covers. 

Although Flair was relatively short-lived, it was Fleur’s favorite project. She even said, “People ask me, If you could read your obit, what would it say? My answer is that I would like it to be about Flair.” Fleur was an interesting person, to say the least, and her story is well worth looking into, as there is much, much more to her than I am able to mention here (for one thing, there are roses named after both Fleur and Flair.) I recommend starting with the Vanity Fair piece, but you could also read her own anecdotal memoir, She Made Friends and Kept Them.

Above is a portrait of Fleur Cowles by René Gruau, who was a major contributor to Flair. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Fleur Cowles #Staff Pick of the Week #Flair #Flair Magazine #Gardner Cowles #Mike Cowles #Florence Friedman #Fleur Fenton #Look Magazine #Look #Alice

[jenniedavis]

#flair magazine #1950s #1950 #50s #madame thea

[vintagelvrs]

Jean Shrimpton magazine covers💐

#jean shrimpton #60s #70s #pinterest #vintage #cute #nostalgia #vogue magazine #80s #vogue #elle magazine #harpers bazaar #cosmopolitan #flair #lana del rey #coquette #60s fashion #photography #fashion model

[muspeccoll]

Enjoy the bright colors in this lovely run of Flair, the influential literary, design, and culture magazine launched by Fleur Cowles in 1950. Cowles brought a fine-art focus to what had been a mass-market format, the magazine, and featured the most influential artists, designers, and writers of the day. Some of the photographs here show off the cutouts in the magazine covers, which reveal glimpses of a second design. Read more about Flair in the Paris Review.

#history of journalism #magazines #flair #graphic design #mizzou #special collections #libraries #university of missouri #rare books #bookhistory #illustration #archives #husni collection

[vintageadsmakemehappy]

1969 Huffy Bicycles showing off a pretty amazing bike. Easy Rider middle school style.

#1969 #huffy #bicycle #bike #easy rider #flair #vintageadsmakemehappy #vintage magazine #vintage advertising #magazine #advertising #60s #1960s #amazing #toy

[blowflyfag]

WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION MAGAZINE : JANUARY 1993

NIGHT OF CRIES : BRET HART’S MOMENT OF TRUTH

Transcript Below!!!

The sun had set, Darkness covered the land–and the spirit of Bret “Hit Man” Hart as well. It was shortly after he lost the WWF Intercontinental Title to his brother-in-law, the British Bulldog, at SummerSlam. Bret was in a hotel room on the road, and he was lost in thought. He was deeply troubled. He was questioning himself, wondering what course his life might follow in the future. Was it time,  he debated, to hang up the tights?

Fortunately for Bret–and for the WWF and his legions of fans–he decided to hang in there. Less than two months later he would win the WWF Title by defeating Ric Flair in Saskatoon. As he pondered his SummerSlam loss, however, he had no way of knowing the future. His career may  well have hung up in the balance. Instead the balance tipped positively, not because the Hit Man dwelt on the future, but  because he dwelt on the past.

“I was feeling some self doubt,” said Bret. “I wondered if I had lost the touch. It was a terrible moment. I thought of my family, all of our wrestling tradition. So I picked up the telephone, called home and talked to my wife. Then I called my father [wrestling great Stu Hart]. They both told me to remember what I had done in the past, to think about how lucky I’d been to have won titles in the WWF. They reminded me of how hard I’d fought to give a good account of myself in the ring and how my fans have supported me. I realized that I had faced adversity before and used the experience to make myself stronger. I told myself to regroup and get on with the business at hand. Boy I’m certainly glad I did”

So are millions of other people who have followed Bret Hart through the many trials and triumphs of his career–and what a career! Twice, as a member of the Hart Foundation, Bret wore the WWF Tag Team Belt. He proved that he had the intelligence and physical ability to blend his style with that of his burly partner, Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart.

But it has been as a singles wrestler that Bret Hart has excelled. The first time he won the Intercontinental Belt was by beating Mr. Perfect . In that match,  Bret demonstrated that he could match one of the most proficient technical wrestlers of all time move for move–and come out the best.

Bret defended his title with guts and style. Even when he lost it, he showed his courage–by wrestling the Mountie while ravaged by fever and flu. After that loss, Bret showed his mental toughness by battling back to regain the title from Roddy Piper in a bruising battle. 

Losing to the Bulldog was a low point in Bret’s life. He was decimated over the title loss while happy for his brother-in-law. Typically, although he was down, Bret moved forward. After a night of self-examination, he came back strong and continued to pay his dues. 

“I realized that I had faced adversity before and used the experience to make myself stronger.”

Bret promises to be a battling champion. “I don’t intend to sit back,” he says.

He was rewarded. The occasion came for him to meet Ric Flair in a match for the most coveted of all titles–the WWF Championship. “I knew that Flair was heavily favored,” says Bret. “but I also believed in myself and knew I had a chance.” 

Given the opportunity, Bret seized it. Nobody gave him the title. He went out and earned it by again proving his technical brilliance and fortitude.  Bret promises to be a battling champion. “I don’t intend to sit back,” he says. “That’s never been my way. As far as I’m concerned, I have to prove my right to be champion each time I go into the ring. If I don’t, then somebody else should wear the belt. But until somebody can prove he can, I’ll be a fighting champion.”

#wwf #world wrestling federation #bret hart #bret the hitman heart #bred #magazine transcript #wwf magazine #jim the anvil neidhart #ric flair #british bulldog

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #flair #1950s

[skulsakz]

vlada roslyakova photographed by alex hay for flair magazine, november 2005

#flair #vlada roslyakova #fashion #alex hay #00s #magazine

[shilohsylvanian]

How about a brief blast from the past?

2010 Flair "girls love magazine" featuring sylvanians celebrating their 25th anniversary. There were 8 different babies to find, so you'd have to buy a UK magazine for each.

The magazine is filled with cute activities, character bios, and pictures.

I have 6 of the 8 babies here, missing the macavity cat twins 💕 they differ a little from normal twins sets because their heads are slightly flattened? The rabbit is the worst in my group as you can see in the second pic lol

#calico critters #sylvanian families #toys #toy collector #shilohscollection #toy community #baby sylvanians #magazines #flair #girls love magazine

[kitsunetsuki]

Hiroshi - Dress by Alice Pollock at Quorum (Flair 1971)

#hiroshi #flair magazine #photography #fashion photography #vintage fashion #vintage style #vintage #retro #aesthetic #beauty #seventies #70s #70s fashion #70s style #70s model #1970s #1970s fashion #editorial #alice pollock

[venusimleder]

Flair, March 2006.

#flair magazine #00s #editorial #photographer??

[uwmspeccoll]

Monday Motivation Owl

A few weeks ago, our department manager Alice posted about our new addition of the stylish and innovative early-1950s magazine Flair, published by the Cowles Media Company under the visionary editorial direction of Fleur Cowles (1908-2009). Checking to see if our general library held any issues of Flair, we learned that it did not, but it did hold the 1953 Flair Annual, which compiled samples of the magazine’s February 1950 to January l951 run. The annual is in such good condition, we are transferring the volume to Special Collections.

The magazine was lavishly produced, filled with foldouts, bound-in booklets, and numerous die-cut windows that provided image transformation from one page to the next. For your motivation this Monday, we present one of those die-cut transformations, Salvador Dali’s 1950 "Mimicry in Nature," which transforms a surrealistic owl-woman into an Owl Butterfly surrounded by women in butterfly-like fashions. Bizarre but motivating!

View another post with work by Salvador Dali.

View more motivated (and some unmotivated) owls.

#MondayMotivationOwl #owls #Salvador Dali #Mimicry in Nature #Flair #Flair Magazine #Flair Annual #Fleur Cowles #Cowles Media Company #Owl butterfly #surrealism #die-cuts #birds #birbs!

[opencallproductions]

Model JoAnn Bush tryin' to get the Tangles out! haha :)

For more Photos and Updates visit joannbush.com :)

#ca #losangeles #jamminjo #actress #joannbush #lol #model #hair #hair flair magazine #uk #london

[unes23]

Kim Noorda by Arnoldo Mondadori for Flair Magazine

#kim noorda #flair #fashion #editorial #model #magazine #unes23