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Famous American fashion-designer, Ralph Lauren has purchased the rights to a number of photographs and plate-glass negatives from a museum of crime in Sydney, Australia, with the intention of using the photographs, mostly of 1920s Sydney gangsters, to adorn his stores in London and New York.
"...Several of the shadowy black-and-white images bear striking similarities to the photographs purchased by the company, and feature what appear to be gangsters posing in pinstripe suits with waistcoats and fedoras.
''There's something about those [NSW police photographers] images that is so evocative of that time, and it's obviously something that's really appealed to them,'' Livingstone said of the RRL campaign.
''It's the classic tailoring. Even though these people are crims, they are from a time when everyone was wearing a hat...''
Famous American fashion-designer, Ralph Lauren has purchased the rights to a number of photographs and plate-glass negatives from a museum of crime in Sydney, Australia, with the intention of using the photographs, mostly of 1920s Sydney gangsters, to adorn his stores in London and New York.
"...Several of the shadowy black-and-white images bear striking similarities to the photographs purchased by the company, and feature what appear to be gangsters posing in pinstripe suits with waistcoats and fedoras.
''There's something about those [NSW police photographers] images that is so evocative of that time, and it's obviously something that's really appealed to them,'' Livingstone said of the RRL campaign.
''It's the classic tailoring. Even though these people are crims, they are from a time when everyone was wearing a hat...''
