Maxing out

It's the photograph that has inspired thousands of fashion collections: Patrick Lichfield's image caught Talitha Getty on a Marrakech rooftop with her husband, John Paul Getty, at the beginning of 1969, when the couple were the very embodiment of hippie-de-luxe glamour that has inspired every since. Obviously it still has resonance. It seems that hippie de luxe and the maxi dresses are

Talitha Getty

Yves Saint Laurent described the Gettys as:

lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.

Talitha was on the cover of French Vogue, April 1970.

Gucci Resort 2009

Natasha Poly


MariaCarla Boscono


Georgina


Sheila Marquez


Yulia


Kasia Struss




Frida Giannini presented the Gucci Resort 2009 Collection yesterday at 8pm at the Villa Aurelia in Rome. The collection was inspired by Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough and Talitha Getty.