Category USA

Halston’s Rebecca Dayan on Embodying Elsa Peretti

As Edie Sedgwick was to Warhol and Yoko was to John, so too was Elsa Peretti to Halston. Peretti, an Italian model-turned-actress-turned-wildly successful jewellery designer, began her artistic career as a muse to fashion designer Halston. Alongside Liza Minelli, Peretti inspired many of the…

Marilyn Monroe: More than a sex symbol

Self-determined. Body positive. Woke. These adjectives weren’t common parlance in 1950s Hollywood when actor Marilyn Monroe was alive. Yet, more often labelled “blond bombshell” or “sex symbol” instead of “forward thinker” or even “feminist,” she had bucked some of the…