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Beautiful Lives: Peter Philips
Keeping It Reel
"In Antwerp in the early eighties, there was no Internet. You had to look around hard to find a Vogue or an Elle or an i-D," Philips says. Old movies, on the other hand, there were plenty of. "It's a cliché, but I've always been inspired by black-and-white films and the iconic actresses—like Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Sophia Loren. They created the original fantasy for me."
Sophia Loren in Cannes, 1955.
"In Antwerp in the early eighties, there was no Internet. You had to look around hard to find a Vogue or an Elle or an i-D," Philips says. Old movies, on the other hand, there were plenty of. "It's a cliché, but I've always been inspired by black-and-white films and the iconic actresses—like Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Sophia Loren. They created the original fantasy for me."
Sophia Loren in Cannes, 1955.