Category Archive: Fashion
Relatively Delightful
With the fashion collections just around the corner, it seems an appropriate moment to pay homage to Charles Baudelaire, fashion’s first poet, who recognized that fashion is integral to portraying modern times in art, and who swans his way through…
Screen Goddess
Out of all the big time movie stars who’ve played the role of Cleopatra, Claudette Colbert was the queen among the queens of the Nile. In each biopic, pageantry, major jewelry, passion, dancing girls, outrageous headgear and sexy eveningwear have…
Bowled Over
There’s an entry on the top hat in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, but the story of the rise and fall of the bowler, the topper’s successor, is just as compelling. Created in 1850 by commission for William Coke II, Earl…
Le pyjama de plage
Le pyjama de plage of the early 1930s—beach pajamas—were worn by all the best dressed women vacationing in Monte Carlo and in Cannes, started a slow, chic movement towards casual dressing in public. (To me, their backless sun tops were…
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