Where are the days when traveling required dressing up and great luggage?
Is there anything more depressing than the huddled masses you encounter shuffling through airports and train stations? What happened to dressing smartly when traveling? Have we given in to comfort over style all together? Here a few reminders what we could look like when on the move:
Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim in the 1960’s, Jane is wearing Chanel
50 years ago today an attempt to cross a bridge in Alabama in a peaceful civil rights march ended in “Bloody Sunday”
In the beginning of 1965, civil rights activists organized the three protest marches to walk the 54-mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery to show the desire of black American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression.
…in no particular order & with my favorite recording…
Number Seven: Billie Holiday
How one song she sang embodied racial crimes in America: “Strange Fruit”.
Billie Holiday performs at the Downbeat club in New York, 1947 – Photograph by William Gottlieb
Billie Holiday hardly needs introducing and I want to concentrate on one song in particular: “Strange Fruit” (click on link to see rare live performance). Her haunting voice sets the tone and serves as a powerful tool of protest and accusation.
How the high waisted pant has made a comeback AT LAST!
Yves Saint Laurent, photograph by Helmut Newton – 1975
How a young girl’s diary became an everlasting condemnation of the Holocaust.
Anne Frank, 12 June 1929 – early March 1945
Anne Frank is alive; she lives on in all of us….The writer Primo Levi describes this beautifully: “One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live.”
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