Sublime Soirées - Vogue Australia April 1979

A very New Romantic glamorous adventure features in this aptly titled Sublime Soirées Vogue editorial from 1979.  Photographed at the piano bar of the Wentworth Hotel in Sydney, the spread is lush with brocade velvets, silks, satins and opulence in general.  I love it!

Kinitics - Vogue Australia April 1979

I think I literally gasped when I saw this spread.  With simply superb photography by Monty Coles, it is such an artistic, interesting editorial.  I especially love the Jenny Kee for Flamingo Park geometric cocoon jumper, as for my favourite shot... I just can't decide, they are all so magnificent!

Jungle Prints On The Prowl - Vogue Australia November 1980

A jungle-riffic spread featuring Sue Smithers as one of the models (with the beauty spot), I'm not sure who the others are unfortunately.  My favourite image is the little picture of the Prue Acton Girl Friday dress in the bottom right hand corner of the last image.

Prue Acton - Vogue Australia April 1979

April 1979
Photography Patrick Russell

I've put a few posts featuring Prue Acton designs lately, and here's another to add to the pile.  I adore this chic late 70's look here, where you can see hints of the 80's look in many elements.

Lights, Cameras ... Acton! - Pol magazine 1980

I bought a stack of magazines just a couple of days ago called 'POL'.  Knowing absolutely nothing about them, I was instantly struck by the covers and then the fashion editorials inside.  I had a bit of a look on wikipedia just now to see if it had any information and found this but I'm not sure it's the same magazine as it says it ceased publication by 1971 and the issues I have are 1979 - 1982.  Hmmm.... the plot thickens.  Anyway, here's a gorgeous Prue Acton spread with photography from Greg Barrett who has done shoots with Sheila magazine and Dolly also that I have shown here (as per the link on his name).  I adore the final photo - it reminds me of a Patrick Nagel portrait.

Prue Acton for SAAB 900 Turbo - Vogue magazine October 1979

Photography Claude Mougin

I recently acquired a bunch of Vogue magazines, so thought I'd add a post here from one of the issues.  I simply adore a futurist themed shoot back when it was thought the future would be cool (it's more boring now than back then I think!).  This Prue Acton for SAAB shoot reminds me a lot of one of the pictures from this Sheila magazine issue from 1980.  It's funny how dated the car looks next to the 'futuristic' wares.