Here some splendid photos by Tom Palumbo who shot for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue back in the 1950’s and 60’s. The photo above was shot around 1958 for Harper’s Bazaar.

A 16 year old Mia Farrow.

For The New York Times, 1956.

Miles Davis, ca 1955/56

We have now updated the Appendix™ Shop with a new range of selected second hand garments from all around the world!

Clip from Cindy Crawford’s “Shape your body” from 1992. We are currently a bit in love with both her and the video and had to share with you. Swaying hair, great outfits, sex-appeal and a dramatic rooftop view with setting sun promised.

The latest picture in Hedi Slimane’s beautiful photo diary, the place for never ending inspiration.

Interview by Mikaela Edri. Photography by Loui Wang.

Hat designer Elisabeth Koch runs her millinery in Beijing, China. Appendix paid her a visit in the combined studio and apartment to talk about how a hat comes about, creative family members and cork pot stands. Her home is literally a piece of Holland shipped to China with old-fashioned, dark wood furniture, a stuffed Dutch bird in a glass box, a pretty tea set and other interesting items for the curious to lay its eyes on.

The first question will have to be “Why hats?”

I get asked this a lot, and I always answer, “Why not hats?”. There is so much we can do with hats, they are the icing on the cake. People do tend to care about clothes, shoes, handbags, maybe some jewelry but few then also think, “What about the hat?”. The hat is not an accessory that is necessary like shoes and pretty-much a handbag, it’s an extra like jewelry and nail polish, perfume and make-up, but the right hat absolutely makes the outfit complete.

There is often an old-fashioned elegance about women’s hats. Do you fancy a certain period in history? And what would women dress like in a world according to Elisabeth?

Hats are indeed so elegant and chic, I love many periods in hat-history: 1900’s, 1920’s, 1940’s, 1960’s – just beautiful. In a world according to me, women would obviously wear hats to match their outfits and perfectly suitable for the occasion in question. There are certain hats one should wear with certain outfits for a wedding, cocktail party, dinner party, opening, reception, national celebrations. Everything must be taken in to consideration: Where is the event? What is the weather like? What will you wear? Who will be there? Is the dinner sit-down or buffet? is the wedding outside, in a church, elsewhere? Do you have an important function at this event? Is there a chance of rain? Everything, everything must be know for the perfect hat for the right event!

What does your design process look like?

For my ready-to-wear collections, I come up with an idea, then I can’t stop until it’s finished. I used to sketch hats but now I just dive into the making process. Cutting, sewing, stitching, measuring, as long as I have the right materials and colors in stock, I’ll just keep going. For commissioned pieces I cannot just do what i want, I need to check witch client between steps to make sure the hat is going in the right direction. Also I like to give clients options so I show them all the variations I can make to their unfinished hat.

You also sell a range of vintage hats in the collection Privée. What is the appeal of vintage hats to you? Where did you pick up all those pieces?

I love vintage hats for inspiration. Also I simply collect them to have. Many are not for sale and dealing in vintage hats is not my core business. I find them all over the US and Europe. I put them on my site as a kind of documentation of my vintage collection.

Finally, is there anything you would like to say to the readers of Appendix?

My hats have been worn by Zhang ZiYi, Zhou Xun, Mo WanDan, Na Ying, Li XinJie, Li BingBing, Chen Hao, Elva Hsiao, Wang LuoDan, Lin ZhiLing, Lu Yan, Miao Pu not to mention Princess Maxima of the Netherlands and others.

This photographer does some amazing stuff. Continue reading for a few more pictures or visit his website.

French-born and Spanish-based photographer Pierre Gonnord depicts unprivileged groups in society through his striking and moving portraits. His series of Sevillian-residing Gypsies and the Spanish lower class are currently on display at Galerie Urs Meile Beijing-Lucerne in Beijing.

Stills from the video the Evening Traveling. It is by no means new, but it’s so nicely done that it deserves mention again eight years later or so. By Akino Kondoh when she was still a graphic design student. It earned her a Grand Prix for Digista Awards 2002/Animation Division. Music by Toshiaki Chiku.

For those who’ve missed it Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide (2005) has been claimed to be one of the most important Chinese films of the past decade. It is a slow art house feature film with an intimate feeling that does offer a reward if you sit through it. Still a film school student, Jiayin was 23 when she made it and last year Oxhide II was presented. She has received several awards for the movies including including the Fipresci Prize at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival for the first one. The films feature herself, her mother and her father playing their respective characters as we follow a piece of time in the middle-class life of a Chinese family through a small number of shots with no camera movements whatsoever. Both stories are being played out in their actual apartment in Beijing. Above a clip from the first scene of Oxhide.