This past summer marked the 50th anniversary of the Manson murders, as well as the release of the new Tarantino film—Once Upon A Time In Hollywood—which centered around the horrible tragedy that occurred that August evening on Cielo Drive.

I wrote an article for the Los Angeles-based brand Stone Tulips on Sharon Tate, celebrating a life which was so tragically cut short. Let other pens dwell on the madness behind the murders—I chose to focus on Sharon’s legacy as a symbol of the 1960’s, a style icon, and artists’ muse. She was, as her close friend Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas described her, “a euphoric, radiant soul”. Gone too soon.

This one is for you, Sharon.

To read the full piece I wrote, with accompanying photographs of Sharon, click here.

Feb 13, 2020

Sharon Tate for Stone Tulips, Los Angeles

It was August 9th, 1969. The heatwave of the past three days had finally broken, but a dazed silence hovered in Benedict Canyon. The residents floated languorously in their pools, or hid in their houses from the relentless sun. There was talk of wildfires, expected to break out across Beverly Hills any day. Later, one of the killers would remark that “you could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers in the homes way down the canyon”. The events of that evening, which took place at 10050 Cielo Drive, were to become one of the most publicized killings in American history.

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