Slim Aarons, his photos tell the style of the jet-set of the past on vacation. From the French Riviera to Capri, passing through Palm Springs, Miami and Marbella

SortLim aarons He started his career in the trenches: after the years spent as a war correspondent for the magazine Lifehe decided to dedicate his work to much more cheerful subjects and glamor. Thus specialized in photographing thehigh society In moments of fun and relaxation, spent in the most exclusive places on the planet.

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Thanks to him, therefore, we have a cross -section of how they lived and, above all, dressed The rich and famous during the long stays in the most exclusive destinations in the globe. And we discover that if in the early sixties a more “covered” style went and bon ton made of pastel sundeck e onepiece structured (after all the idea of Swimwear as we mean it today was still in the dawn), in the legendary seventies finally arrives the bikini Designed precisely for the tan. If the Kaftans with colored prints are the favorites of those who have embraced the style hippieon the contrary, real and high society prefer Candide shirts or in sorbet shadevitamin coordinates that discover the belly and pole in piquet.

The Dress codeof course, it changes with the passing of the decades: the capri pants deThe 60s they give way to the top Crochet e to the minidress signed vitaminics Lilly Pulitzer. The two pieces becomes more and more skimpy while the Bath capoften worn in the shots of the sixties, becomes obsolete.

The subjects of the photographs (the names of many of them will probably not tell you anything; at the time, after all, i social They did not exist and maintain a low profile was a value) are never in forced poses, so much so that sometimes the shots seem almost “stolen”. From Marisa Berenson lying in the sun in Capri Cz Guest one of the “swans” of Truman Capotewho winks from his swimming pool in Miami, you have the feeling of being in a capsule of the time when we can peek closely the golden life of the most visible people. Frames of an era that no longer exists but that has gone down in history together with its protagonists. And to the places they did as a background, first of all Capri but also Palm Springswhere it was taken Poolsis gossip (opening) one of the most famous images of Slim Aarons And then theHotel du cap on the French Riviera, among the favorite of the beautiful world, together with Mustique And Marbella.

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Waiting to give us a relaxing break too (with a little luck perhaps equally fascinating), you just have to scroll through suggestive shots Below to feel a little on vacation.

Marisa Berenson sunbathing in Capri, in 1968.

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