June

"What is one to say about June,

the time of perfect young summer,

the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months,

and with no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty

will ever fade."- Gertrude Jekyll

Even More

"Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of

opportunity and strength."

— Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique"

The Inward Voice

Straight to Your Heart

image by Karen Havey Cox

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

We Never Know Until

"We never know how high we are

Till we are called to rise;

And then, if we are true to plan,

Our statures touch the skies." — Emily Dickinson, American poet

Happy Summer Everyone

photograph: "the Sweeper" by Alfred Stieglitz

"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits

and imaginary lines." -Walt Whitman

Classics

All photos: Mark Shaw

Jean Shrimpton as captured by Mark Shaw

Mark Shaw began working for LIFE in 1952. In his 16 years with the magazine, he shot 27 covers, more than 100 stories which included the magazine's European fashion collections. As a leading fashion photographer, he also worked for Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle and a host of other publications. He was one of the first photographers to use color when shooting the runways and "backstage" at the couture shows. In 2004, some of these photographs were featured in an exhibit at the Andrew Wilder Gallery at Svenska Mobler in Chicago. The show sold out in less than two weeks. Subsequent exhibitions of these images in New York and Los Angeles, were equally successful—a testament to Mark Shaw's reputation as one of the top fashion photographers of his era.