Catch of the Day: Lobsters

After posting yesterday about Elsa Schiaparelli's Shocking Pink perfume, I got to thinking about that famous Lobster Dress she designed using fabric designed by Salvador Dali ...

... and while I'm not a huge fan of Wallis Simpson for a litany list of reasons, she did have a way with couture. Here she is shot in 1937 by Cecil Beaton in the Lobster Dress...

That Wallis. She knew how to create an image, didn't she?

So with crustaceans on the brain, what should I find in this month's House Beautiful from my favorite interior designer, Miles Redd? A carved bone lobster, which he placed in a New York apartment. These can be found on 1st Dibs, naturally. 

I'm feeling a lobster brooch pinned onto a straw bag would be cute for the beach. At Retro Alice on Etsy.com.

Or how about a sparkly one for evening? Only $11.99 from Pugster on Amazon.com.

For the preppiest canine in Kennebunkport, there's this fetching seersucker collar from The Southern Dog on Etsy. (Now, if only I could find a cat version for Flynn & Bunny).

Social Portraitist and Fashion Illustrator René Robert Bouché (with a Miles Redd Addendum)

For fans of loose illustrations with a whisper of Fauvist color, social portraitist and fashion illustrator René Robert Bouché (1905-1963) is it. He began his illustration career for French Vogue in 1938. He also designed sets for the theatre and ballet and ads for Elizabeth Arden and Saks Fifth Avenue. 

This is a 1947 cover for American Vogue. 

Bouché's 1958 work, "Woman with Veil." 

Love this portrait of socialite Mona von Bismarck.

An Elizabeth Arden ad. 

Another Vogue cover, with wonderful colors to celebrate the 1939 Ascot races. 

Here, interior designer extraordinaire Miles Redd uses Bouché fashion illustrations to dress up a powder room in the Atlanta mansion Boxwood, a 1920s Philip Shutze creation.