#20th century

[jewellery-box]

Glamorous champagne-coloured evening dress from the 1950s. Designed by legendary London couturier Norman Hartnell, this show stopping gown sees lustrous Duchesse satin richly embroidered with gold and silver sequins, pearls, and white paste stones in an elaborate floral beadwork design.

Fashion Museum Bath

[caveundertree]

Lie down on the Earth

She misses you

Fill yourself with the art of the sky

Edith Ballinger Price

[kulturegroupie]

Action Heart-Object, Bogdanka Poznanovic | 1970

[history-of-fashion]

fall/winter 1959 Evening dress "Artemise" by Yves Saint Laurent, Paris

silk "faille", machine lace, black silk taffeta, black silk tulle, black silk velvet

(Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin)

[historicl]

René-Xavier Prinet

[rosieandthemoon]

Irina Ionesco (early 1900’s)

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 17, vol. 37, 22 avril 1916, Paris. Robe de voile Diagos à plis, coupée de panneaux de taffetas. Petite grecque d'or au corsage. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[classic-art-favourites]

Autumn Gold by Maximilian Lenz, 1905.

[i-love-this-art]

Vladimir Titov / "Letters" / 1970 / Magnitogorsk Art Gallery

[tyger-land]

ᴇᴢʀᴀ ᴊᴀᴄᴋ ᴋᴇᴀᴛs Artwork from his 1962 book The Snowy Day.

[vinceaddams]

People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".

[bodies-made-of-art]

Nude at the Window by Paul Paede (1913)

[kulturegroupie]

Jean Harlow, the original blonde bombshell and Marilyn Monroe’s major inspiration and idol

[oldpaintings]

Sydney Mortimer Laurence (American, 1865–1940)

[meliae]

Owe Zerge