If I had a movie theater I’d happily go broke showing films like “The Last Days of Pompeii” ( or “Gli Ultimi Giorni Di Pompei”) a 1926 silent movie with hand colored frames that recently had its first US showing at the Harvard Film Archive. Stars included Rina de Liguoro, who cavorted topless, playing an [...]
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All things ariel seem to attract my attention these days. But how could you not get excited about wingwalker Gladys Ingle? A friend just sent me this amazing video. Riding on the top wing of a plane, early stunt woman Gladys Ingle nonchalantly changes planes mid-air. She’s very cat-like, in fact. As the only female member [...]
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Kiki de Montparnasse, Man Ray’s famously saucy lady muse, plays a big role in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. I was thinking of her today and came across this great, short compilation of archival black and white film footage of Kiki—shot by Man Ray and by Fernand Léger. I always think of her as quiet and [...]
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This post will serve a dual purpose: first, it’s to let you know that I have been swallowed up by the fashion machine, and will spend the next month covering the fashion shows here. (And my updates on this site may slow down a little due to these commitments, sadly.) But secondly, I wanted to [...]
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Le pyjama de plage of the early 1930s—beach pajamas—were worn by all the best dressed women vacationing in Monte Carlo and in Cannes, started a slow, chic movement towards casual dressing in public. (To me, their backless sun tops were just as bold.) Already, since the early 1920s, Chanel and …
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In 1920, the Ouija board was all the rage. Fingertips poised on the pointer, legions of Americans glided their way through its alphabet, to yes, no, and eventually to goodbye.”Everybody’s doing it,” one journalist reported. “It is the new fairyland. It is the universal amusements. The Cabaret of Ghosts is running performances day and night…Telephones [...]
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