With the fashion collections just around the corner, it seems an appropriate moment to pay homage to Charles Baudelaire, fashion’s first poet, who recognized that fashion is integral to portraying modern times in art, and who swans his way through Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. “What poet would dare in the depiction of the pleasure caused [...]
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In the summer of 1973, following in the success of his Ziggy Stardust triumph, David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane album was unleashed on the world—and his Ziggy persona got that much wilder. Bowie had debuted his flaming red mullet the year before, inspired by an image from a Kansai Yamamoto fashion show. “I couldn’t afford the [...]
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The glorious 18th century hairstyle called the ‘pouf’ and the radical, sleek bob of the 1920s are both covered Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, but not the simple, chic chignon. Since the 5th century, when noble women of Greece adopted the style, it’s been the standard of demure propriety. It was the hairstyle of choice in [...]
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