And another blog I wrote in June 2013, relating to a special exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art about the Impressionists and the art of fashion. …Think of a treatise on ornament for women by women, based on their manner of observing, of combining, of selecting their fashionable outfits and all things. […]
THE ART OF STYLE REMEMBERING AN AGE OF ELEGANCE Fashion fades, only style remains.* Coco Chanel Irish portraitist William Orpen (1878-1931) takes us into an era that has largely disappeared, ended by the destruction and carnage of World War I; French fashion genius Coco Chanel (1883-1971) may have died nearly 50 years ago, […]
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