A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty: Creative Minds and Fashion

  • About me
  • About this blog
  • Writers
    • Charles Baudelaire
    • Lord Byron
    • anne carson
    • Jean Cocteau
    • Dante
    • Charles Dickens
    • 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
    • Amal Alamuddin
    • Alcibiades
    • Beatrix Ost
    • 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

Sonia Delaunay

On February 22, 2014 By Deborah Parker
I had the idea of making, for my new-born son, a bed-cover made up of bits of fabric like the ones I had seen Russian peasants using. When I was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material had a Cubist look the them, and we than tried to apply the process to other objects [...]
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Cecil Beaton, pt.2

On November 21, 2013 By Deborah Parker
Cecil Beaton isn’t just memorable for his own superlative sense of style.  Over the course of several decades he described, as only he could in an inimitably acute and often wicked manner, his impressions of others.  Here are some examples. On a 1970 Chanel show: I found that although everyone had said how feeble she [...]
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James McNeil Whistler

On October 14, 2013 By Deborah Parker
While the photos and paintings of Whistler don’t fully convey elements of his dress, his personal style attracted the attention of many of his contemporaries.  No less a dandy than Oscar Wilde, contemporaries admired his admired black suits, patent shoes, monocle, bright lock of white hair, roguish mustache, and elegant hands.  [...]
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Amedeo Modigliani

On July 15, 2013 By Deborah Parker
There’s only one man in Paris who knows how to dress and that’s Modigliani.  Picasso Picasso was small, dark, thick-set, worried and worrying, with gloomy, deep penetrating eyes, which were curiously still. .. His clothes were half-bohemian, half-workman, and his excessively long hair swept the collar of his tired jacket.  Modi [...]
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