Inspiration | Vintage Beachwear

“Dean’s California–wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road

1. Ruby Keeler, 1934

2. Beachwear by Claire Mc Cardell, photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1946

3,4,5. Unknown

6. Knitted Bikini, 1951

7. Unknown

8. Grace Kelly

9. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Crawford, Santa Monica, by Nickolas Muray 1929

10. Grace Kelly

11. Jane Fonda. Photo by Dennis Hopper, 1965

12. Pauline and Georgie, Bay of Many Coves, Marlborough, New Zealand, 1970

13. Brigitte Bardot photographed by Willy Rizzo in St. Tropez, 1958

14. Brigitte Bardot

15. Unknown

16. Photo: Ron Church, 1950’s