The Honourable David Herbert

Posted on 17/04/2014 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

NPG x75307; Hon. David Herbert by Bassano

This is The Honourable David Alexander Reginald Herbert or David Herbert (1908-1995), Socialite, traveller, interior decorator, actor and son of 15th Earl of Pembroke. Photographed by Bassano Ltd, whole-plate film negative, 14 February 1940 (Given by Bassano & Vandyk Studios, 1974 via The national portrait gallery)

Dame Edith Sitwell

Posted on 25/12/2013 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

“The trouble with most English women is that they dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous life and do not want to attract attention” – Dame Edith Sitwell (Photographed by Sir Cecil Beaton)

Bertrand Russell – Face to Face Interview with Dame Edith Sitwell, 1959. From the BBC archives.
Dame Edith Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was an English socialite and poet who first gained fame for her stylistic artifices but who emerged during World War II as a poet of emotional depth and profoundly human concerns. She was equally famed for her formidable personality, Elizabethan dress, and eccentric opinions.

Sargent’s bloodlines

Posted on 23/01/2013 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

The London Tate Gallery retrospective of John Singer Sargent’s work in 1998. Vanity Fair Magazine placed this editorial. “18 descendants of the men and women he immortalized posed for the modern equivalent of his brush and oil paint; the lens of David Seidner”

Hilary Gardner

Helena Bonham Carter

Judith Peabody

Anderson Cooper

Viscount MacMillan of Ovenden

Henry James

Natasha Fraser Cavassoni

Serena and Samantha Boardman

All photo’s by David Seidner for Vanity Fair November 1998.Fashion stylist Bozhena Orekhova.(Fashion Credits / Chanel Haute Couture, Vivienne Westwood, Vitage, Richard James, Ralph Lauren Black Label, Turnbull & Asser, Chrisitan Lacroix, Christian Dior Haute Couture, Alexander McQueen, Versace Couture, Hugo Boss)

See some of John Singer Sargent’s portraits made in the 19th Century HERE.

Portraits of the ’90s.

Posted on 22/01/2013 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

19th century socialités portrayed by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Do notice the very rough paint strokes of the dresses….

Mrs Mahlon Day Sands

Helen Dunham

Etta Dunham

The Wyndham Sisters

Just wanted to share these beautiful paintings with you today. Rex.
Tomorrow I have something more to share on John Singer Sargent….

Lee Radziwill

Posted on 11/04/2012 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Lee Radziwill

Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill Ross (née Bouvier, born March 3, 1933) best known as Lee Radziwill, is an American socialite, public relations executive, and former actress and interior decorator. She is the younger sister of the late First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the niece of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale.

With Mario Testino in 2010.

With Calvin Klein in 2009.

With Truman Capote in the seventies.

With Rudolf Nureyev in the seventies.

With Andy Warhol in the seventies.

With Andy Warhol and Truman Capote (notice Mr. Warhol’s happiness about the polaroid on the right)

With Beau Peter Tufo in 1975, photo by Ron Gallela/GettyImages.

With Herbert Ross in 1988.

With Prince Stanislas Radziwill in 1968. (photo Bettmann/CORBIS)

Recapping:
Lee Radziwill has been married three times. Her first marriage, in April 1953, was to Michael Temple Canfield, (DO read his bio!) They divorced in 1959. Unfortunately we could’t find pictures of them together.Her second marriage, on March 19, 1959, was to the Polish prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwill, they divorced in 1974.

Ms Radziwill and Peter Tufo had a long relashionship, they split up in 1978

In 1979 she became engaged to California hotel magnate Newton Cope, but the wedding was called off five minutes before the ceremony was to begin.

On September 23, 1988, she became the second wife of American film director and choreographer Herbert Ross. They divorced in 2001, shortly before his death.