Pin-Up Love!

I have got really interested in the history of the pin-up, so much vintage clothing was based around designing for these glamorous ladies that you can't help but get a tad mesmerised by them. The actual detailing into the refined artwork goes above and beyond some of the illustrations we see today and there is a real sense of bashful erotica charged through each image. The colours and textures used are deliberately evocative and I feel they encompass and vulnerable sexuality. I love the whole culture surrounding it and the way these images were used from anything to advertising through to encouraging young men to fight at war.

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/pinupart/

Here are some lovely images...