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.  Photo: Hulton Archive /
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