A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty: Creative Minds and Fashion

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  • Writers
    • Charles Baudelaire
    • Lord Byron
    • anne carson
    • Jean Cocteau
    • Dante
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    • Benjamin Disraeli
    • Gustave Flaubert
    • Bernard-Henri Levi
    • Gabriel García Márquez
    • Yukio Mishima
    • Edgar Allen Poe
    • Jean Rhys
    • Gertrude Stein
    • Oscar Wilde
  • Artists
    • Salvador Dalí
    • Jean Cocteau
    • Sonia Delaunay
    • Gilbert and George
    • David Hockney
    • Frida Kahlo
    • Amedeo Modigliani
    • Louise Nevelson
    • Georgia O’Keeffe
    • Andy Warhol
    • James McNeil Whistler
    • Ai Weiwei
  • Musicians
    • David Bowie
    • Björk
    • Maria Callas
    • Miles Davis
    • Herbert von Karajan
    • Franz Liszt
    • Sonny Rollins
    • Sugar Vendil and the Nouveau Classical Project
  • Other
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    • Alcibiades
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    • Beatrix Ost, pt.2
    • Cecil Beaton
    • Charles and Ray Eames
    • Laurence Tubiana
    • Neil DeGrasse Tyson
    • Rudolf Nureyev
    • Sofia Coppola
  • Reflections
    • Mary Beard
    • Belle da Costa Greene
    • Creative Vision: Le Corbusier’s Glasses
    • Degas/Cassatt
    • The Flamboyants
    • Henry James
    • Moncler Scandal
    • Vladimir Nabokov
    • Proust and Fortuny
  • Facebook
  • Fashion Designers in Crazy Rich Asians: The Book vs The Movie
  • Barbara Jatta
  • Beatrix Ost, pt.2
  • Beatrix Ost
  • Laurence Tubiana
  • Isak Dinesen
  • Benjamin Disraeli
  • Creative Vison: Le Corbusier's Glasses
  • Maria Callas, pt.2
  • Degas/Cassatt
  • Amal Alamuddin
  • 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

Louise Nevelson, pt.2

On April 28, 2013 By Deborah Parker
Cecil Beaton, Louise Nevelson
The physical is the geography of the being. Louise Nevelson Most women, as they age, cling tenaciously to a few well-honed looks. Nevelson made old age the stage for a fashion revolution. Gradually, her full-blown style emerged, an immense collage whose elements were subject to miraculous transformations–the head scarves and multiple pairs of false eyelashes, [...]
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Louise Nevelson, pt.1

On January 9, 2013 By Deborah Parker
Richard Avedon, Louise Nevelson
I’m what you call a real collage. I never underestimate one’s appearance because you project something. I always had a flair for clothes and liked them because I have a whole feeling about appearance.  Because I think you very carefully can identify a person by their appearance. It’s important. It’s not skin deep. It’s much deeper. And consequently in youth [...]
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