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