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Goodnight Irene


Irene Lentz was the costume designer for MGM Studios in Hollywood for 7 years. In 1947, Irene was the first American designer to allow department stores the rights to sell her designs in exclusive boutiques. This is one such dress.

This 1950's cocktail dress by Irene is worked in black silk taffeta. I love those cascading accordian pleated ruffles. And it just fits that old song from 1950 - "Good night Irene, I'll see you in my dreams."

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Charlotte Martin


Charlotte Martin: Charlotte was a popular french model in the sixties and seventies. She is mostly remembered for her relationships with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Eric Clapton and Charlotte were together for over two years, but their relationship ended because he fell in love with Pattie Boyd. Eric said Charlotte "was in the way of someone else, who, even though I couldn't have her, was commanding my every thought." Charlotte then moved in with George and Pattie Harrison at their modern bungalow Kinfauns. Charlotte had a brief affair with George, which devastated Pattie because she considered Charlotte a friend (Pattie also had no idea at the time that she was the reason for Charlotte and Eric's break-up). Charlotte went back to Paris for a while and eventually began a long lasting affair with Jimmy Page. They had a daughter named Scarlett.












(Info from Eric Clapton's Bio)

Something About Pattie Boyd: Part 2


Pattie Boyd Part: Two

On Getting Together with Eric Clapton : "Things had been going quite badly between George and I for a while, and we were almost leading different lives. We were really so very young and immature then. I wouldn't see him for days; I never knew where he was unless I was running around after him. Eric gave me much of the attention I no longer got from George. "I was incredibly flattered when he played 'Layla' for me in his South Kensington flat. I was so astounded at this powerful, sensual song, and I knew it was written for me -- I just sensed it. I also felt embarrassed, because I knew that George would know how Eric felt -- everyone would know. When George and I separated, I became anxious about being with Eric. I really thought I'd made a mistake. There was definitely chemistry between us, but his intensity frightened me slightly. "I went to live with my sister in Los Angeles to get away. Eric tracked me down and suggested I join him for a couple of gigs in the States. I was seduced by his lifestyle immediately." "On Living with Eric "I'd never been on the road before, and watching Eric from the side of the stage, with what looked like millions of women adoring him, was electrifying. This was my man! "We traveled all over America and had many years of fun together before it all began to unravel. Eric had been on heroin before we got together, and a doctor had warned me addicts often use alcohol as a replacement. But it was difficult to know what was normal for a musician on the road, working hard. In those days, nobody really knew what an alcoholic was, and you didn't think it of somebody who seemed to be functioning normally. "You start mopping up after them to keep things normal, and I slipped into a role that wasn't really me. I wasn't mean to be co-dependent. It was hard to watch him hurting himself. I kept thinking, 'One day he'll stop drinking and life will be fantastic again.' Really, I was just waiting for that day." On Splitting with Eric : In an interview with The Sunday Times Eric revealed that when he was a "full-blown, practising" alcoholic "there were times when I took sex with my wife by force and thought that was my entitlement. I had absolutely no concern for other people". Pattie also says: "Eric and I had been unsuccessfully trying to have a child with IVF, so it was a huge blow finding out Eric was going to have a child with the Italian model Lori Del Santo. When Connor was born I stayed, hoping to deal with the situation, but I was always aware that he now had another family. "Sometimes looking back, you can see the life lessons you've learnt. The saddest thing was, after Connor died, I couldn't see the life lessons. Eric and I had split up over Connor and now Eric was all alone. What was the point of it all?" On Her Looks "When I was younger, I loved wearing short skirts or low-slung trousers from Biba or Granny Takes a Trip. But I had a very fragile confidence. I had been a model, and I think modeling is an industry that highlights all your flaws and can magnify them all out of proportion. It emphasizes the wrong parts of a girl. "Growing older, I wished that I had a more defined bone structure, as aging is easier with good bones, but, oddly enough, the only time growing older has affected my confidence is when I look in the mirror. Then, I see everything that's wrong, but once I'm away from the mirror I simply don't think about it. Every year I contemplate having something done, but truthfully I think you have to be very careful not to eradicate your personality. I had the gap filled between my front teeth a few years ago, and I regret it. "Ultimately, there are compensations to growing older. You are much wiser and more confident, and you can secretly laugh at situations because you know exactly how they are going to play out." On Starting Over :"After Eric and I split up, I had to learn to do everything myself. I'd never paid an electricity bill, and I didn't know you needed tax discs on your car. I had no idea how to make money and no idea what I was going to do next. But I had always had a camera with me and a darkroom at my home, so I started taking photographs. "I did a couple of photography courses, and then I did a few jobs for friends, and a career began. I also did a nutritional course, and with all of my homework I could try to get my mind off the horrible divorce." On Her Life Now : "I miss the intimacy of a relationship, but at the same time I enjoy being on my own. In an ideal world, I'd have both: intimacy and independence. But I don't think I'll ever have such a passionate relationship again. You will never be as vulnerable as you are in your youth, and you have to be slightly vulnerable to allow yourself to feel such intensity. "Would I change anything about my life? No, nothing could have been better than the life I've had. It's been fantastic, unique, and interesting in every aspect. It was so jolly, but it was also very painful. I've had extreme relationships, so you could say I've paid for the wonderful times with the huge dollops of unhappiness that went with them."
Eric visiting Pattie at Friar Park, when she was still married to George.
Finally together


El and Nell






In the Bahamas with Ronnie and Krissy Wood.


At the Tommy premiere




Mr. & Mrs. Clapton

Touring America

Something About Pattie Boyd: Part 1


Pattie Boyd:"With her gap-toothed smile and baby face, Pattie Boyd was one of the most succesful models of the 1960s, and she was at the forefront of the Youthquake movement that would eventually transform the face of Britain forever. Photographed by the era's most iconic photographers, including David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, she was a household name by the time she graced the covers of Vogue and Queen in her early twenties. But this was nothing compared to her next role: as muse and inspiration for love songs -- George Harrison's "Something," as well as Eric Clapton's "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight." Her marriages to these talented and famous musicians also introduced her to London's notorious dope-hazed party culture, where models mixed with rock stars and watched the sun rise decked head-to-toe in Ossie Clark. More doe-eyed flower child than knowing rock chick, Boyd, with her lauded lifestyle and long blonde hair, was as much an icon of the swinging Sixties as love, peace, and rock 'n' roll were its mantras.
Meeting The Beatles : When I was 19, my agent sent me to a casting for (I thought) a commercial. When he told me I'd got a part as a schoolgirl fan in the Beatles''A Hard Day's Night,' I panicked; I never wanted to be an actress. The Beatles were getting famous and I thought George was terribly handsome. I was more excited than nervous when I met them. "I don't know whether it was by accident or design, but at lunchtime I sat next to George. He asked me to go out to dinner, but I declined as I was going out with a boyfriend, a photographer. I told a friend of mine, the model Pat Booth that George had asked me out and that I said no, and she asked if I was mad. As luck would have it, we were called back for a photo-shoot for the film and George sarcastically asked how my boyfriend was. I said he wasn't around anymore. We went out to dinner that evening. That's how the romance started." Living With George :George and I married when I was 21, and I wore a Mary Quant coat. I modeled for about three years after we married, but George didn't want me to work. I found our house, Friar Park, in 1970, but I think moving there was the start of the spiraling problems in our marriage. "George needed somewhere big enough to house his recording studio, and Friar Park was this absolutely vast, dark Victorian building that had previously been a school. It didn't have a good atmosphere, and George and I became isolated from each other, as much as anything because the house was so large. We always had people staying with us, including three families from the Hare Krishna group, and eventually we were simply torn away from each other. "I think people were jealous we were happy, and tried to split us up. "I felt completely bereft when he died," she admits. "He was the eternal love." Even after she left him for Clapton, he told her she could always come to him and he would look after her. "That was such a selfless, loving, generous thing to say. We shared so much and grew up spiritually together. And there are so many things that no-one else knows about what we did together; and there were so many things I still needed to ask him," she says. Yes, she will miss him for the rest of her life. After he died, she had recurring dreams in which he was still alive. "You never know how long grief will last," she says





Their First Meeting on the set of Hard Day's Night.




Pattie and George's Wedding
Press Conference
Honeymoon in Barbados




modeling with Twiggy

"Something" video








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