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Queerguru reviews ABOUT FACE about the very first super models

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Bethann Hardison is an African American who was a very successful NY showroom model for years in the 1960s but it wasn’t until she appeared in her first TV commercial that her mother actually saw her work, and she was totally shocked. In those early days the word ‘model’ was often a pseudonym for a … Continue reading





Diana Vreeland : The Eye Has To Travel

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  Diana Vreeland was the Queen Bee of Fashion: a Demi-God of Style who reigned supremely from her different ‘thrones’ of power for five decades and single-handedly changed the way women dressed.  You may think that a brash statement but it is totally befitting of this larger-than-life style maverick whose influence at the helm of both Harpers … Continue reading



Iris

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Photograph by Bruce Weber ‘I don’t like pretty’ says the 93 year old idiosyncratic fashion maven Iris Apfel in an enchanting new documentary by Albert Maysles. Iris acknowledges that she was never a conventional beauty but that has hardly stopped her pursuing her passion for style and becoming one of most original and daring dressed women … Continue reading



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