Model

Ella Rae Ross

For my model i have chosen Ella Rae Ross, i wanted to choose a model with a versatile face as my photos shoots will progress through from a younger Charley living in england to an older tainted woman living in califorina, therefore i feel ella has the right face which can be adaptable to this.

Shoot Planning and Make Up Ideas

   

 Charley is a very charismatic and charming woman, i want to capture her beauty as well and show her presence in a photo.
The make up is going to change a lot throughout my 3 images to show the journey through the character and her life.
For the first image Charley is her younger self. Living in london in the 50s, carefree and full of spirit. I want to do a light 50s make up look. With red lips and a top lid lined eye, marilyn monroe inspired.
For the second shoot i want to depict charleys slow demise from her young self, after marriage, children and divorce charley has become a lonely and dependant woman. I want to create the scene from the book where charley is in bed ringing george. for the make up i want her to look, tired and un made up, stripped of her well thought out appearance the raw self of her life.

For the final image of the shoot i have chosen the scene in which she is meeting george for dinner, i feel this shows her most charismatic and confident side. I want to create the make up to be of the time, the 60s twiggy look, although charley herself is ageing she is still a fashionable and stylish lady and her having the make up that was primarily created by the youth of the 60s depicts her struggle to want to stay and be young.

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Make-up in the 60s

Make up took a massive part in the 60s. it changed drastically along with the fashion.


in the early to mid-1960s women reacted against the time-consuming, complex hairstyles of the '50s and opted for more practical short styles (often variations of the 1920s bob), or long, straight hair. There was only one makeup look throughout the 1960s: dark eyes paired with pale lips






The 1960s was a youth-oriented decade – the “baby boomers” were coming of age and defined the decade as their own.

Makeup looks were at both ends of the scale, from the au naturel look of the hippie brigade to thedramatic black and white eyes of mod high-fashion, with pastel colours making their mark on the masses.






London had led the way with the mod look (“modernist”) since the late fifties, and new stores catering to the fashion tastes of the younger generation popped up all over, notably in Carnaby Streetand Kings Road.

The mod look peaked between early 1964 and mid-1967. During this time, youth-orientated television shows, magazines and films united young people all around the world.

Make up adverts from the 60s

Agneta Frieberg in a Max Factor ad in Seventeen, July 1963.

Make up icons of the 60s

Modern interpretations 

Icons of the 60s

Twiggy

Model and trend-setter Twiggy became the poster girl for 1960s style, especially the Mod movement, with her pixie hair and almost-cartoonish eye makeup.
She was named "The Face of '66" by the Daily Express. 

In the mid 60's at 16 years of age, Twiggy became internationally known as the world's first supermodel. This was the start of the change in fashion from the oder woman to the young teenagers being the trend setters.

Jean Shrimpton

 This image was shot by her then lover david bailey

Alongside Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton was one of the top fashion models of the Sixties. Born in Buckinghamshire in 1942, 'The Shrimp', as she was nicknamed, was a fashion frontrunner and trendsetter. In 1965, she caused a style sensation when she pitched up to the Victoria Derby race during Melbourne Cup week in a shift dress by Colin Rolfe with a thigh-high hemline (a predecessor to the miniskirt, which became a worldwide craze), shocking the then-conservative Australians. A leading covergirl and fashion face (she promoted brands like Revlon and Yardley of London), Shrimpton also hung out with the It-crowd, and was once engaged to prominent Sixties photographer, David Bailey, on whom the cult movie Blowup was based, but the pair split after four years.

 BRIGITTE BARDOT

Her iconic look: bouffant waves, winged liquid liner and pale lipstick

1963

She pulled back her locks with a wide headband in Contempt.

Jackie Onassis

The most stylish First Lady in history, Jackie Onassis' style has been copied and aspired to by women all over the world. Born into New York high society in 1929, she went on to marry US president John F. Kennedy, who she stayed with until his assassination in 1963. In 1968 she married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. During both marriages, which suffered with different problems - alleged infidelity (Kennedy) and business trips (Onassis) - she cheered herself up by shopping. Constantly. Throughout the Sixties, she became known for her impeccable style and grooming, and had a tendency to wear clean suits by French designers like Chanel, Givenchy and Christian Dior.

Vogue 1963

The 1960s was a period of huge change in the fashion world. Whereas fashion had previously been aimed at a wealthy, mature elite, the tastes and preferences of young people now became important. i feel this has an impact on the character Charley as the world of beauty changes around her and the glamour and womanly admired figure changes into the young skinny girl, she struggles to come to turns with getting older.


During the 1960s, Diana Vreeland was editor-in-chief and personality who tried to target the image of the magazine toward a younger crowd. This transition was developed because of the sexual revolution that was happening. The looks during this period were more contemporary and articles were directed more towards discussing sexuality. The 1960s were a great time when Vogue did most of its expanding, Vogue expanded coverage to include East Village boutiques in New York and started to feature downtown personalities, famous people, favorite places to go. Vogue had plenty of different models at this time and made them all house hold names during the 1960s


Vreeland enjoyed the sixties enormously because she felt that uniqueness was being celebrated. "If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body and good carriage"

Fashion in 1960s

History of 1960s Fashion and Textiles

The 1960s was a decade of sweeping change throughout the fashion world generating ideas and images which still appear modern today. 

Whereas fashion had previously been aimed at a wealthy, mature elite, the tastes and preferences of young people now became important. 

At the beginning of the decade, the market was dominated by Parisian designers of expensive haute couture garments. Formal suits for women underwent a structural change resulting in looser lines and shorter skirts.

Jean Shrimpton - 1963.

California

Califorina in 1960

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