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Jackie’s signature sunglasses were both stylish and functional. She has been quoted saying she liked the opportunity they gave her to watch people and that she kept multiple pairs of sunglasses in a basket by her front door.

"Whose Brain did I put in?"

Remembering Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder, who brought his signature manic energy to films such as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and the role that forever be remembered as, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

"Orange you glad"

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Prêt-à-Porter

Remembering Sonia Rykiel

“My color is black,” she once told an American fashion editor. “And black, if it’s worn right, is a scandal.”

Prêt-à-Porter

Sonia Rykiel, flame-haired, with an enigmatic smile and the outline of a bra in sequins on her sweater. And up on the screen, Anouk Aimée, smouldering with sex appeal as a Famous Female Fashion Designer mourning the death of her lover.

Chris & Debbie

New York City was the home to a potent burgeoning punk and new wave scene. Blondie’s Chris Stein and Debbie Harry was there for all of it

One for the road...Andrés Calamaro

Happy Birthday to Calamaro

Calamaro's interpretation of Jose Alfredo Jimenez "En el Último Trago",made famous in Spain by artist Chavela Vargas. 

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Cosmé McMoon

Click Here for a Melody

Born Cosmé McMunn, (February 22, 1901 - August 22, 1980) was a Mexican pianist and composer, best known as the accompanist to notably tone-deaf soprano Florence Foster Jenkins.

 "Florence Foster Jenkins," an amateur soprano who gained popularity for her absolutely horrible voice - and her unbounded enthusiasm for sharing her "gift" with the world. 

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Lucia Bosè, Miss Italia 1947

Former Miss Italia and actress, Lucia Bosè and Luis Miguel Dominguin are on a boat in a little canal of Venice viewing Venetian palaces, Venice, 1956.

Picasso and Jacqueline walking through the streets of Saint Tropez. their companions include The famous Toreador Luis Miguel Dominguin and his young wife the Italian actress Lucia Bose. Dominguín married in 1955 with Lucia Bosé in Las Vegas, after a courtship of three months.

Luis Miguel's Femme Fatale...Miroslava

Mexican actress and former beauty queen, Miroslava committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. Her body was found lying outstretched over her bed, she had a portrait of the famed bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín in one hand. 

"Papa forgive me, I can not go on. I have no value, I do not have enough will to live ... I want your Bamkulka (small doll girl, in Czech). Write and send gift to Luis Miguel Dominguín (A silver bell) and be happy. "

Miroslava last wishes

Ava Gardener & Miguel Dominguín

Their subsequent engagement was not fulfilled, by 1954 Dominguin's relationship with Ava Gardner was being widely reported. He considered her the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, but liked her more, he said, for her humour and understanding; unsure what he looked for in a women. "Men fall in love with a woman's faults rather than her qualities," he mused.

María Félix, Loves to Love

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 Maria's romances with some notorious men like the aviation entrepreneur Jorge Pasquel, the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel.

Maria & Luis Miguel

C.1953, Maria Felix At the funeral of her husband Jorge Negrete

Dorothy Parker on Katharine Hepburn

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker 

"This performer ran gamut of human emotion all the way from A to B." Parker

Hepburn always wanted to play Earhart and this is the closest she got as 1933's Dorothy Arzner "Christopher Strong" 

The Many Loves of Luis Miguel Dominguín

Luis Miguel Dominguín life was famous beyond being a bullfighter, belonging to a family saga and, an "an undisputed winner: handsome, bright" friends with the likes of Orson Welles, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Hemingway, and loved by the most beautiful women. His name joined the unattainable women like Ava Gardner , Lauren Bacall , Anabella, Deborah Kerr , Romy Schneider, Maria Felix and among others . His love affairs were always the subject of gossip and rumors. The first was Cecilia Albeniz , granddaughter of the famous composer, died tragically in a car accident on Christmas 1949. That same year, Luis Miguel had been seen on numerous occasions with Angela Perez de Seoane , daughter of the Duke of Pinohermoso.

Ingmary Lamy

Ingmary Lamy

 wears blue tinted sunglasses and a white hat

by Saint Laurent in 1972

Photo by Alex Chatelain

Recordando, Chavela Vargas

Born in Costa Rica, Isabel Vargas Lizano,AKA, Chavela Vargas moved to Mexico and invented herself as a wild behavior, carrying a gun, wearing men's trousers and singer of rancheras.
She became close friends with the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, who stayed at their home. It is rumored that Chavela had an affair with Frida, but spoke about it, she was also acquainted with the art scene and was friends with Picasso and the writer Carlos Fuentes .

Vargas first album was released in 1961 and has since recorded more than eighty recordings. In sabbatical during the late seventies with rumours that she had died. 

Problems with alcoholism, she managed to overcome, and returned in 1991. Vargas worked out regularly, lifting weights, and at 80 years of age began parachuting.

Chavela owes part of her fame to films, particularly in Pedro Almodovar's movies .

Yves Saint Laurent's....OPIUM!!!

Remembering Yves Saint Laurent

Where have the fanciful ads of the 1980's gone? Where have they gone, supermodel Linda Evangelista dared to sell a product by trying to convince you that if you buy this perfume, you'll not only smell good, you'll be able to buy your very own hunky slave and force him to smell your wrist...love it