Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
at The National Arts Club
INSPIRATION - A Muse Among Friends
The Personal Collection of China Machado
"China Machado is one of the most celebrated and remarkable figures in fashion history and a model for Givenchy, Dior and Balenciaga, editor for Harpers Bazaar, writer and television producer. The was the exclusive muse of photographer Richard Avedon, and China’s life and career has also been recorded by photographers Bruce Weber, Francesco Scavullo, Jerry Shatzberg and Steven Meisel."
Louise Lévêque De Vilmorin
Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin (4 April 1902 – 26 December 1969) was a French novelist, poet and journalist.
from WIKIPEDIA
from WIKIPEDIA
coming soon!
Proust's Muse, The Countess Greffulhe at The Museum at FIT
"Proust’s Muse, The Countess Greffulhe features extraordinary fashions from the legendary wardrobe of Élisabeth de Caraman-Chimay, the Countess Greffulhe (1860–1952). A famous beauty celebrated for her “aristocratic and artistic elegance,” the countess was a fashion icon comparable to Daphne Guinness today."
"The countess fascinated her contemporaries, including Marcel Proust who told her cousin, Robert de Montesquiou, "I have never seen a woman so beautiful." When Proust wrote his great novel In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), the Countess Greffulhe was one of the primary inspirations for his immortal fictional character, Oriane, the Duchess de Guermantes, of whom he wrote, "Each of her dresses seemed like... the projection of a particular aspect of her soul."
from the FIT website
from the FIT website 2
"The countess fascinated her contemporaries, including Marcel Proust who told her cousin, Robert de Montesquiou, "I have never seen a woman so beautiful." When Proust wrote his great novel In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), the Countess Greffulhe was one of the primary inspirations for his immortal fictional character, Oriane, the Duchess de Guermantes, of whom he wrote, "Each of her dresses seemed like... the projection of a particular aspect of her soul."
from the FIT website
from the FIT website 2
Monday, September 19, 2016
Society of Illustrators
Friday, September 16, 2016
Two Castles and a Gingerbread House
a castle in the Bronx:
a gingerbread house in Brooklyn:
a castle on Central Park West:
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Sunday, September 11, 2016
RIP Courtesy Motel
This motel sat high up on a hill and was so... spooky, sinister, and eerie. I would pass it every time I rode home from New Jersey, on Route 4, going to the George Washington Bridge. It gave me the creeps.
Vito Spatafore got whacked here... and now this motel in Fort Lee New Jersey belongs to the ages.
Vito Spatafore got whacked here... and now this motel in Fort Lee New Jersey belongs to the ages.
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