American beauty: Bettie Page playing cards edition In case ..
Added 2023-06-20 12:00:09 +0000 UTCAmerican beauty: Bettie Page playing cards edition In case you live under a rock. Bettie Page is considered the Queen of Pinups. She reigned in the 1950s and in the 1980s with the rise of Olivia De Berardinis's watercolor pinup (aka cheesecake) art. Many of the more modern-day pinup art featured in Playboy from the 1980s on was from de Beradinis. When talking about Bettie Page, you can't not talk about the two most famous photographers she worked with: Irving Klaw and Bunny Yeager. I’ve mentioned Bunny Yeager before for her influence on the modern day bikini but as a refresh: she was a model-turned-photographer during the pinup era, capturing hundreds of iconic pinup images of Bettie Page (as well as other pinups). She also designed and sewed many of the outfits she and her models posed in! We’ll save a lesson on Irving Klaw for another day. 💕
