This is the first of four posts about headwear. First up: turbans. I wanted to start with Audrey because she's such a style icon and it's a joy to see a photograph where she looks so happy.
Audrey Hepburn
Turbans had featured in film and fashion long before, however. Here's a wonderfully sultry photograph of 1920s film star Anna May Wong...
Norma Shearer, 1929
Valerie Hobson
Joan Crawford in matching turban & sweater, 1939
Vogue 1945
Marlene Dietrich in a turban by Dior, 1955.
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Joan Crawford
Wilhelmina Cooper
Printed silk beret-turban hybrid, 1957
Basking in the sun, 1950s
Turban by Adolfo Emme, 1960
Petal turbans, c.1960s
Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra (1963)
She also loved to wear them out to parties...
...including a society wedding with another rather important Liz
Grace Kelly and Jackie O with their respective husbands
Vogue 1960
Italian actress Virna Lisi, c.1960s
Vogue 1965
Sophia Loren
Cobra turban by Givenchy, Vogue 1973
Pat Cleveland
Barbara Streisand
Margaux Hemingway sports a turban-headband, 1976
Contemporary designers, stylists and magazine editors fall back in love with the turban every now and again...
Vogue Italia, 2000
Models on the runway at Prada SS/2007
Lanvin Resort 2013
Stylist Catherine Baba
The legendary Molly Parkin is famous for her beautiful headwear. If you haven't read her autobiography, I strongly recommend it; one of the most interesting (and scandalous) memoirs I have ever read. During the late 1960s Molly was fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and then The Sunday Times. Her wonderful stories turn the air blue! We have the book in our Kings Cross studio and customers are welcome to borrow it from our library at any time.
Molly Parkin in a signature turban
A few fashion-forward celebrities have tried out the turban look...
Nicole Scherzinger
SJP as Carrie Bradshaw
Olivia Palermo
Karolina Kurkova
Eugenie Niarchos
Kate Moss
Chanteuse extraordinaire Paloma Faith
Madonna, c.1980s
Italian beauty Paola Iezzi
Fashion aside, it would be impossible to write a post about turbans without mentioning the sublime Jennifer Saunders...
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