Mary Cassatt, Breakfast in Bed, 1897 #womensart #MothersDay US

A lovely fresh-faced Marilyn Monroe beginning the day.........

Sharon Tate and Barbara Bouchet at the Playboy Club in London, 1966

Jeanne Cheirel, a French film and stage actres, by Jean Reutlinger, undated.

The soulful and expressive eyes of Sylvia Sidney at her height in film, 1930s........

my heart swells at isabella rossellini’s adoration for her mama ingrid bergman

'Everyone thought I was bold, fearless, and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking...'
Remembering the magnificent Katharine Hepburn #BOTD

German author Frieda Lawrence, 1950, by Carl Van Vechten

Lauren Bacall and Sir Alec Guinness, June 1993.

Photo by Terry O’Neill.

Natacha Rambova and her husband Rudolph Valentino by James Abbe, 1923.

Grace Kelly in the glorious sunshine, Jamaica, 1955. Photo by Howell Conant.

The mihrab in Al-Firdaws Madrasa, built by Dayfa Khatun, the regent of Aleppo. During her grandson's reign, sue achieved an unprecedented measure of autonomous political influence. She acted as his regent which was a highly unusual position for a woman in an Islamic dynasty.

Bettie Page / photo by Bunny Yeager.

Barbara Stanwyck by Ernest Bachrach.

Louise on the cover of Das Magazin, February 1929. She’s dressed for the Cologne street festival — aka “the crazy days” — that happens every year in mid-February.

Edith of Wessex, Queen of England through her marriage to Edward the Confessor, being coronated in the Cambridge University Library, by Matthew Paris. Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was crowned.

Pretty Bonnet, 1830-60.

Straw, silk, metal & silk taffeta.

©️ Palais Galliera
#FashionHistory #Hats

Evening dress, 1810. England. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Portrait of English actress Unity More. Photographed by Bassano, 1913.

19th century Russian headdress from the collection of Natalia de Shabelsky (1841-1905), a Russian noblewoman compelled to preserve what she perceived as the vanishing folk art traditions of her native country