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Bijoux de Diamants, Collier Comète: Chanel
By BarbaraAnne
In 1932, worldwide economic depression gripped the diamond industry. DeBeers asked Chanel to design a collection of diamond jewelry, hoping it would mirror the enormous success of her costume jewelry. Her stunning exhibition premiered November 1, 1932, at… Continue reading →
The Blouse That Wasn’t
By BarbaraAnne
When is a blouse, not a blouse? When 20/20 hindsight recognizes that a rare, first design of an item represents a marker, which changed the history of ideas.
The nuns at the orphanage taught her to sew. “She… Continue reading →
La Belle Romaine
He lived only 35 years and died in Paris of tubercular meningitis in July of 1920, but Amedeo Modigliani’s art lives on. Surrounded by French Impressionist landscapes, he had another vision: painting everyday women, nude, against a plain studio background.… Continue reading →
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Loosely wrapped, creative, nocturnal, eternally blue, reclusive, eccentric, obsessive perfectionist... in other words, an artist.
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