Category Archive: Fashion
The Woman of 50 Faces
I’m still thinking about John Galliano‘s muse. This season he dedicated his spring collection, which was shown in Paris last week, to Maria Lani, a Polish émigrée who in the late 1920s enthralled Paris’s painters and sculptors from Mogdiliani to Matisse…
Four Pretty Bows
I was wondering this morning about all the different forms of the word ‘bow.’ To bow as a verb, as in ‘to bend the body,’ comes from the proto-Germanic root bugon, as does the archer’s bow, in that it forms…
Fashion Rules
This post will serve a dual purpose: first, it’s to let you know that I have been swallowed up by the fashion machine, and will spend the next month covering the fashion shows here. (And my updates on this site…
“The Natural History of the Flirt”
“The Natural History of the Flirt,” by Albert Smith, published in 1848. This is just the kind of book that I would have flipped over while doing my research for Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. But it’s never to late to…
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