Simone D'Aillencourt with Whippet, Penn Station [1959] by William Helburn
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Smith College [1949] by Peter Stackpole
"Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers."
Cecil Beaton
Charles James dresses, New York [1948] by Cecil Beaton
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“Prep clothes are sensible: rain clothes keep you dry; winter clothes keep you warm; collars are buttoned down so they don’t flap in your face when you’re playing polo. Layering is a natural response to varying weather conditions.”
The Official Preppy Handbook [1980]
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“I’ve been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don’t tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast."
Dennis Hopper
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“Jazz music has always been a place where anything is possible.”
Bill Evans
"The largest cultural menace is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so."
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have."
Barry Goldwater
Audrey Hepburn wearing a strapless yellow silk evening dress by Givenchy, Vogue, 1963
Eartha Kitt looks at her reflection in a full-length mirror as Hubert de Givenchy adjusts her dress during a fitting, Paris, 1961