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

David Bowie

On February 7, 2014 By Deborah Parker
When he decides to do something, he picks the most cutting-edge, most interesting person in the world to do it with, Geoffrey Marsh, curator of the exhibition David Bowie is that opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Is there [...]
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Maria Callas, pt. 1

On December 17, 2013 By Deborah Parker
“The Bible of opera,” Leonard Bernstein “It is so tiring to be with people because they all see me as a goddess, so I have to be a goddess for them.” Maria Callas One of the great style icons, Maria Callas epitomizes the high glamour of the sixties with her striking looks, strongly [...]
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Marc Bolan, T. Rex

On November 7, 2013 By Deborah Parker
I am too beautiful to live and too young to die, Marc Bolan In donning feather boas, top hats, and glitter on his face Marc Bolan initiated the era of glam rock. He wore 6″ platforms and had a wardrobe of satin jackets in brilliant colors from canary yellow to shocking pink.  His [...]
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Sonny Rollins

On September 16, 2013 By Deborah Parker
One of the hallmarks of Sonny Rollins’s distinguished career is a penchant for “thematic improvisation,” in which the soloist performs a series of spontaneous variations on a single musical idea. Rollins takes great delight in showing that no melody is so familiar that it cannot be [...]
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