avril 2025
Une histoire de t-shirts
Est-ce qu'on porterait aujourd'hui des t-shirts à rayures marines si le couple le plus élégant (et depuis oublié) de la Génération perdue n'avait pas fait découvrir à Picasso le style vintage cool ? Une théorie qui fait le détour par East Hampton
BANDED TOGETHER
Ralph has been riffing on the marinìere for years, styling it in a way that shows how something of simple perfection can be dressed up or down; John Wayne in “Adventure’s End”; a crew of French cadets, 1935; Audrey Hepburn takes a break on a movie set, 1955; James Dean wears Breton stripes; and, below, Picasso, in his studio near Cannes, 1960.
But was Picasso really the first magpie of vintage style to appreciate the marinière’s combination of usefulness, graphic charm, and durable versatility?
WHEN EVERYONE WAS STILL NO ONE
Clockwise, from top: The Dunes, the largest estate of its time, was built by Sara’s father in 1909; Gerald with his granddaughter in East Hampton in the late 1950s; Fitzgerald based the main characters of “Tender is the Night” on the Murphys; the novelist didn't like to swim yet when he visited the Murphys—photographed here with his wife Zelda and daughter Scottie—he wore stripes; “Cocktail,” which Murphy painted in 1927, is in the collection of the Whitney Museum; the Hemingways and Murphys with friends in Pamplona, Spain, for the bullfights, 1926; the book jacket of Tomkins indelible story of the little remembered but enormously influential Murphy couple.



