One of my favorite 70s rock-n-roll songs is American Woman by The Guess Who:
I know, I know, the song American Woman has nothing t'all do with fashion but as the American Woman is our theme for the next few posts on the RARE blog I thought why not. Our American Woman is a little bit sex, a little bit rock-n-roll and a little bit Ali MacGraw. Ali MacGraw means Steve McQueen which means: "Oh. My. God." (so said Ali MacGraw and so do I!)
I know, I know, the song American Woman has nothing t'all do with fashion but as the American Woman is our theme for the next few posts on the RARE blog I thought why not. Our American Woman is a little bit sex, a little bit rock-n-roll and a little bit Ali MacGraw. Ali MacGraw means Steve McQueen which means: "Oh. My. God." (so said Ali MacGraw and so do I!)
Steve McQueen. OMG.
Calvin Klein said, "Ali MacGraw exemplified this great American style". She was a Wellseley educated girl who as a teenager checked out Nijinsky's biography 16 times out of the Pound Ridge library! She had a bohemian glamour that made everyone from Diana Vreeland to Steve MacQueen fall in love with her. Okay, indulge me while I post just one more photo of Steve McQueen...
Steve McQueen in LIFE magazine 1963. Damn!
Gustave Tassell was, oh who cares! Let's just look at Steve McQueen one more time:
I have the same Le Mans jacket that I bought more then a few years ago at the Historical Grand Prix in Monaco. Good times. And my favorite jacket.
Anyhoo! Gustave Tassell! An American designer. A fitted 1960s coat in cream with gold and silver metallic thread. Glamorous. Sexy. Sixties.
With flecks of red...
1960s Tassell fitted coat. Size 4.
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