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

Fashion Designers in Crazy Rich Asians: The Book vs The Movie

On August 21, 2018 By Deborah Parker
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

On April 10, 2018 By Deborah Parker
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
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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Laurence Tubiana

On December 18, 2015 By Deborah Parker
“I am excited because it’s a period where everything seems possible.” “Intelligence can win.”  Laurence Tubiana Laurence Tubiana made headlines recently as France’s top climate change envoy at the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris. Tubiana worked tirelessly for 18 months before the conference to ensure a positive outcome–meeting with [...]
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