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70s fashion: Ika in Ossie + Celia by Herb – but whose are the shoes?

Published on December 29, 2012

Here’s another gem from Herb Schmitz’s photographic goldmine: model Ika Hindley at west London restaurant Julie’s in an early 70s shoot for Dutch agency Kippa.

Vintage experts Liz Eggleston, Mark + Cleo from C20 Vintage and Deborah Woolf took next to no time to identify the silk chiffon dress as an Ossie Clark/Celia Birtwell creation, one of the three tulip print variations as displayed in Dominic Lutyens’ Birtwell bio.

//Nicky Samuel in a tulip dress for Vogue December 1972. Photograph: Norman Parkinson.//
//From Celia Birtwell, Dominic Lutyens, Quadrille, 2011.//

But whose are the shoes in Herb’s shot?
I wondered whether they might be one-offs from the late lamented Tommy Roberts’ City Lights Studios, since, in terms of statement, they resemble those from the store in the photograph below.

//Maudie Adams in City Lights Studio sandals for Sacha, 1973. Photographer: Unknown.//

But I may well be off the mark. Ideas, random guesses and hard info gratefully accepted.

Herb Schmitz is represented by Laura Noble.

Visit Deborah Woolf here, C20 Vintage here and Vintage A Peel here.

Lutyens investigated the aesthetics of the period in his book with Kirsty Hislop 70s Style & Design; visit their blog here.

8 Comments

Ian Harris

January 2, 2013 at 1:06 pm

Hi Paul, are they not Terry De Havilland ?? Or am I talking a lot of old cobblers again.

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Paul Gorman Author

January 2, 2013 at 8:27 pm

Good call Ian – I shall ask.

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Paul Gorman Author

January 5, 2013 at 9:09 pm

Not TdH’s Ian…

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Merlin

January 9, 2013 at 4:28 pm

I bet they’re Derbers

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Paul Gorman Author

January 10, 2013 at 1:04 pm

Not bad Merlin.

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Yvonne Gold

May 17, 2013 at 1:40 pm

Zapata… Manolo. I had a pair with the same sole & red & white striped tops.

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Paul Gorman Author

May 20, 2013 at 7:43 am

Thanks Yvonne. Mystery solved. Trust all good with you. PG

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Yvonne Gold

May 17, 2013 at 1:43 pm

PS… He used the same tulip top in a heeled pair, with long wrap round ankle straps with leaves on the ends.

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