A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty: Creative Minds and Fashion

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    • Beatrix Ost, pt.2
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  • Beatrix Ost, pt.2
  • Beatrix Ost
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  • Benjamin Disraeli
  • Creative Vison: Le Corbusier's Glasses
  • Maria Callas, pt.2
  • Degas/Cassatt
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  • Gabriel García Márquez
  • Proust and Fortuny
  • Sonia Delaunay
  • David Bowie
  • Maria Callas, pt. 1
  • Cecil Beaton, pt.2
  • Marc Bolan, T. Rex
  • Cecil Beaton, pt.1
  • James McNeil Whistler
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Oscar Wilde, pt.2
  • Belle da Costa Greene
  • Anne Carson
  • Ai Weiwei
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Björk
  • Amedeo Modigliani
  • Dante
  • Gilbert and George
  • Franz Liszt
  • Sugar Vendil and the Nouveau Classical Project
  • Edgar Allen Poe, pt.2
  • Alcibiades
  • David Hockney
  • Henry James
  • Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  • Andy Warhol, pt. 2
  • Louise Nevelson, pt.2
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Herbert von Karajan
  • Salvador Dalí, pt.2
  • Charles Dickens
  • Rudolf Nureyev
  • Jean Rhys
  • Bernard-Henri Lévy
  • Edgar Allan Poe, pt.1
  • Concerning Dresses and Stresses
  • Frida Kahlo, pt.2
  • Mary Beard
  • The Flamboyants
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Andy Warhol, pt.1
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Jean Cocteau
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Louise Nevelson, pt.1
  • Charles and Ray Eames
  • Frida Kahlo
  • Yukio Mishima
  • Miles Davis
  • Salvador Dalí
  • Sofia Coppola
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Fashion Designers in Crazy Rich Asians: The Book vs The Movie

By Deborah Parker On August 21, 2018 · 7 Comments · In Uncategorized
When word got out that Kevin Kwan’s best-selling Crazy Rich Asians was going to be made into a film, a Ralph Lauren rep offered to send samples to the production company. The costume designer, Mary Vogt, expected two or three dresses: the company sent more than thirty outfits. Other designers [...]
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Barbara Jatta

By Deborah Parker On April 10, 2018 · 1 Comment · In Barbara Jatta, Uncategorized
In December 2016 Pope Frances announced the appointment of Barbara Jatta as the new director of the Vatican Museums–the illustrious institute’s first female director. An esteemed art historian, Jatta has worked at the Vatican Museums for 22 years before becoming Vice Director in June 2016. Jatta now oversees the directorship of [...]
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Beatrix Ost, pt.2

On November 13, 2017 By Deborah Parker
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The thrill of style . . . it’s the better life. Beatrice Ost Beatrix Ost’s outfits captivate us. Photos of her transport us to a world of fantasy and invention. The closer one looks, the more there is to see. But what are the details? These three photos show the same outfit: the two [...]
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Beatrix Ost

On November 10, 2017 By Deborah Parker
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    Valentina Illardi Martin, Creative and Fashion Director of Grey Magazine, observes “her sense of style is her,” a notion exemplified in this photograph taken in her  New York apartment. We see Ost’s paintings in the background, statements espousing her philosophy, a Studium [...]
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