Chanel - Spring 1989 Couture

Tina Turner wearing Azzedine Alaïa Spring/Summer 1989 for Stern magazine in Paris, 1989. Photograph: Peter Lindbergh. 🇫🇷

Cleo Glyde @ Yves Saint Laurent Spring/Summer, 1989 Haute Couture

Claude Montana, "Dream Maker"

(29 June 1947 – 23 February 2024)

Claude Montana began his career in London with a jewelry line that was instantly noticed by the professional press. When he returned to Paris in the late 60s, he joined John Voigt's team at Mac Douglas, where he learned leatherwork, which he would later democratize through his own collections.

In 1975, he presented his first fashion show, to international acclaim. He launched his own House in 1979, assisted by his sister Jacqueline, and joined the Official Calendar of Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall-Winter 1981/1992, in April 1981. In 1989, he became artistic director of Lanvin, where he successfully experimented with Haute Couture.

During his time there, he was awarded two Dés d'or for the Autumn-Winter 1990-1991 and Spring-Summer 1991 collections.

After leaving Lanvin, he launches a new ready-to-wear line, Odyssée. Claude Montana was promoted to Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in July 2014.

Claude Montana leaves an indelible legacy in the fashion industry, his singular style still inspiring many contemporary designers.

With his unique vision and boundless approach he created his own vocabulary of fashion that continues to live on today; inspiring contemporary designers such as Alexander McQueen – who cited Montana in many of his collections – and most recently Montana’s influences can be seen in the sumptuous proportions of Tom Ford’s debut women’s wear collection.

As power dressing makes a return to the catwalk, it is Montana’s 1980s designs that create the basis for Stella McCartney’s autumn/winter 2011 voluminous silhouette, Balmain’s pointed and padded shoulders and Martin Margiela’s exaggerated angles.

Your work will forever be timeless and legendary.

Rest In Power !

The VMAs are tonight and I hope Taylor will attend (and I kind of expect she will) so here are some possible red carpets looks I found. I don't understand anything about fashion so

Is it stupid to think (and hope) taylor will wear blue for the show for 1989 TV (and release the vault tracks video)? Idc, I can still see her wearing either one of those Reem Acra 2024 Ready To Wear gowns. I think the left one is almost too classy, so maybe not. But the right one is just the daring, sexy and classy look Taylor's been going for lately.

Maybe she will go for something more subtle in its blueness and wear this Reem Acra Fall 2023 Ready To Wear. The details here are so elegant and yes, the fucking cleavage.

Maybe she will pay homage to the album with a specific style, not color, and wear Zuhair Murad Fall 2023 Couture metallic two-parts, or his Resort 2024 white one. I think the white one screams 1989 era more. The black pantsuit could also be a beautiful look for the red carpet.

I know Speak Now (Taylor's Version) era is over, but perhaps she would be kind enough to show us she still remembers this album exists with this beautiful Oscar de la Renta Fall 2023 gown?

She might stick to the Midnights era (since she's nominated for the album) and wear the Oscar de la Renta 2023 Resort gown or Jullian MacDonald Spring 2024 dress.

Black is always a good color. She could wear this Oscar de la Renta 2023 Resort gown or the Zuhair Murad 2024 Resort one. I think the Zuhair Murad gown is very Midnights.

SIMILARITIESSSS

Saw this Spring/Summer 1989 Christian Lacroix Haute Couture Runway look on Pinterest and my mind was immediately transported to this Carrie Bradshaw look… I can’t be the only one.

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Chanel RARE Vintage 1992 CC Tortoiseshell Matelasse Frame Sunglasses.

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …

1933 – Karl Lagerfeld (d.2019) was a German fashion designer, artist, and photographer based in Paris. He was the head designer and creative director of the fashion house Chanel as well as the Italian house Fendi and his own eponymous fashion label. Over the decades, he collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. He was well recognized around the world for his trademark white hair, black sunglasses, and high starched collars.

In 1993, he caused U.S. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour to walk out of his Milan Fashion Week runway show, when he employed strippers and adult-film star Moana Pozzi to model his black-and-white collection for Fendi.

There was much controversy from Lagerfeld's use of a verse from the Qur'an in his spring 1994 couture collection for Chanel, despite apologies from the designer and the fashion house. The controversy erupted after the 1994 couture show in Paris, when the Indonesian Muslim Scholars Council in Jakarta called for a boycott of Chanel and threatened to file formal protests with the government of Mr. Lagerfeld's homeland, Germany. The designer apologized, explaining that he had taken the design from a book about the Taj Mahal, thinking the words came from a love poem.

Lagerfeld was the target of a pieing by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in 2001 at a fashion premiere at Lincoln Center in New York City. However, the tofu pies hurled by animal rights activists in protest of his use of fur within his collections went astray, instead hitting Calvin Klein. A PETA spokesperson described the hit on Klein as "friendly fire," calling Klein, who doesn't use fur, "a great friend to the animals" and Lagerfeld a "designer dinosaur," who continues to use fur in his collections.

Lagerfeld had a long-term relationship from the early 1970s with socialite Jacques de Bascher until his death in 1989.

1487 – Julius III (d.1555), pope from 1550 to 1555, created one of the most notorious homosexual scandals in the history of the papacy. He was the protégé of Julius II (pope from 1503 to 1513), himself a "sodomite covered with shameful ulcers," according to the schismatic Council of Pisa convened by his enemies, the Holy Roman Emperor and the French king, in 1511.

Julius III was born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte in 1487. He studied law in Perugia and Bologna before taking religious orders. After holding numerous offices in the Papal States, he was made a cardinal in 1536. A skilled expert in canon law, del Monte served as governor of Rome. As cardinal-bishop of Palestrina, he was one of the three co-presidents who opened the celebrated Counter Reformation Council of Trent in 1545. He achieved the papacy five years later only because the respective candidates of France and the emperor were hopelessly deadlocked in one of the longest conclaves in papal history. Far from being a man of the Counter Reformation, however, Julius fit the earlier pattern of a pleasure-loving Renaissance pope fond of banquets, theater, and hunting. He did, however, effect some minor reforms, and he backed the newly formed Society of Jesus in its missions to India, China, and Japan. More notably, he supported Michelangelo as architect of St. Peter's and discovered the genius of Palestrina, whom he put in charge of the papal choir. Nevertheless, his leadership of the church was largely frustrated when political difficulties with Charles V caused him to suspend the Council of Trent indefinitely.

Julius III caused a major scandal by becoming infatuated with a fifteen-year-old beggar boy named Innocenzo whom he first saw fighting off an attack by a pet ape in 1548. He appointed this unprepossessing, rude, ill-mannered street urchin to the post of cathedral provost, which won him the soubriquet, il provestino. Two years later, in 1550, when Julius became pope, he had his brother adopt Innocenzo, and over the vehement protests from other church leaders he not only named him a cardinal but gave him a responsible administrative position as his "chief diplomatic and political agent," a task for which he was entirely incompetent.

Roman satire called the ill-favored boy Julius's "Ganymede," and the Venetian ambassador reported that Innocenzo shared the pope's bedroom and bed. As may be imagined, Protestant partisans seized on this succulent scandal, which became a staple of anti-papal polemics for over a century. It was said that Julius, awaiting Innocenzo's arrival in Rome to receive his cardinal's hat, showed the impatience of a lover awaiting a mistress and that he boasted of the boy's prowess in bed. No doubt such tales gained color in the telling.

A recent biography has argued that the relation was not sexual, but the outrageous extravagance of Julius's dotage suggests otherwise: Julius bestowed benefices on Innocenzo that gave him one of the highest incomes in Europe—beyond even that of the Medicis. After Julius's death in 1555, Innocenzo's status as a prince of the church was an extreme embarrassment to succeeding popes, who tried to curb the "voluptuous and indecent" lifestyle of the "Cardinal-Monkey." His murder of two servants—a father and the son who tried to defend him—led to his being imprisoned for several years in various monasteries. He was also tried for the rape of two woman "of low estate," but on this charge he escaped punishment. He died in 1577, aged 46.

The bodies of both Julius III and Innocenzo repose in the del Monte chapel in the church of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome.

1997 – The U.S. Senate thrashes GLBT civil rights twice in one day, passing the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) denying to LGB and many T Americans the right to federally recognized marriages to those they love; and relieving states of the obligation to recognize marriages of same-sex couples performed in other states. The Senate also defeated the “Employment Non-Discrimination Act” which would have barred job discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Chanel - Spring 1989 Couture

Jade Brown @ Jean-Louis Scherrer Spring/Summer, 1989 Haute Couture

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Chanel RARE Vintage 1992 CC Tortoiseshell Matelasse Frame Sunglasses.