#isabelle de borchgrave

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Isabelle de Borchgrave’s gorgeous paper recreations of Botticelli’s Flora and Pallas’ dresses and their original counterparts:

“Primavera” by Sandro Botticcelli, ca. 1477-82

“Pallas and the Centaur” by Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1482

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paper gowns by isabelle de borchgrave (via)

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Fashion-à la Mode

The Pop-Up History of Costumes and Dresses

Isabelle de Borchgrave

Universe, New York 2001, 14 pages, 7 Pop-Up, 20x31 cm, ISBN 978-0789305077

euro 50,00

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Fashion-à la Mode is a sumptuous jewel of costume and fashion history seen through a dazzling parade of dolls that pop up on the page, accompanied by extraordinary interactive apparel, such as removeable fans, parasols, and shoes. The costumes in the book are created by Isabelle de Borchgrave and are based on her one-of-a-kind, hand-painted paper dresses.

With short texts and numerous costumed figures that pop up in three dimensions, the book is organized chronologically into themes: Egypt and the beginning of costume, the Elizabethan period, 18th-century France, the Victorian Opera, the kimono, Chanel and the liberation of women's clothing, and fashion as art (Fortuny and Miyake).

The text is written by Dorothy Twining Globus, Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Also included are enthusiastic essays by such notable fashion authorities as Hubert de Givenchy, Karl Lagerfeld, Myra Walker, and Sue North.

22/07/23

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Dress mixed technique on paper 2020 credit Courtesy of the artist photo Jean-Pierre Gabriel

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Art in The Good Fight and (The Good Wife) - Part 1

as promised, i am resharing some of my art threads from twitter over here. to recap, as a history major and art nerd, i have always loved looking at the art shown in the sets of period drama, but it was really striking to me how obviously intentional it was being used to assist in telling story in The Gilded Age (plus Impressionist lover Mrs Sylvia Chamberlain was just begging for it).

while part of it is about identifying the art because i do love an easter egg, the other part i find really interesting is thinking about how art reflects character and story. so, i started thinking more about art in The Good Fight/The Good Wife, and i started a twitter thread and it became a season long thing this year for the final season.

this post is part 1 of 2 about the art in The Good Fight/The Good Wife, and in particular, Diane Lockhart's impeccable art taste. so, without further ado...

this is my hands down fav, which is in Diane's Boseman/Reddick office in TGF, Girl with Peony by Andy 'Zig' Leipzig 🔥

i adore the surrealism and guess what i found? sunflowers of course 🌻🌀🌻 this is Andy 'Zig' Leipzig's Have a Heart, 2014.

in Diane's old apartment in TGW era, the engraving on the right is by Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houël, Vase cineraire et figures antiques (1782, Gennadius Library).

the left looks like Bougainvillea, Parivolia, Italy by Isabelle De Borchgrave (watercolour).

this is not Diane's, this is Sweeney's, but i have never been able to find this still life from TGW 419, which is a shame because it is GORGEOUS.

in the McHart apartment post TGF s2, there's an engraving by French artist Jean Louis Prévost, Flowers & Fruit.

behind Kurt and more clearly here is a French Watercolour Landscape (distributed by Soicher Marin gallery).

there are also a few pieces in the bathroom, including some botanical prints visible only in the mirror. and this one above the fireplace, A Rainy Day, by an unknown American Continental School artist (20C, oil on canvas).

i'll be back next week on Thursday (aka missing TGF more than usual hours) for the rest of my thread, which focused on the art in s6 and was possibly more intentional than the rest of The Good Universe put together.

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Isabelle de Borchgrave House, dekoriert mit einer schönen Mischung aus kulturellen Gegenständen

Isabelle de Borchgrave House, dekoriert mit einer schönen Mischung aus kulturellen Gegenständen

Sie würden erwarten, dass das Zuhause eines Künstlers ein Spiegelbild seiner Arbeit ist, und in den meisten Fällen ist es das auch. Auf die eine oder andere Weise gelingt es ihnen, diese Leidenschaft für Kunst in das Design und die Einrichtung ihres Hauses zu integrieren. Für die belgische Künstlerin Isabelle de Borchgrave spiegelt sich dies in der schönen Farbmischung und in all den stilvollen…

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Portrait of Bia de’ Medici, illegitimate daughter of Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany by Bronzino, c. 1545 and paper dress reconstruction by Isabelle de Borchgrave

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Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave has turned her passion for painting toward the recreation of elaborate costumes -- crumpling, pleating, painting and sculpting the surface of ordinary paper — to achieve the effect of textiles and create the illusion of haute couture.

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Bronze Bronze chair & footstool

by Isabelle de Borchgrave

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They’re Paper! Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper 

Now at the Frick Art Museum in Pittsburg through January 6th are the amazing (and on some level confusing) paper clothings created by Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave. Think of them as the museums do as her “exploration of historical costume through contemporary paper sculpture.” Because they are not for wearing, but for admiring, and they are paper reproductions of actual textile garments from all across the ages.  She takes paper and paints it, pleats it, or does what she must to recreate the appearance of textiles. She was inspired to make these creations after admiring the clothing in paintings, so that adds one more level to it. Many onlookers say they cannot tell that these are paper. Think of them as trompe-l’oeil, the fancy French way of saying fool-the-eye or optical illusion, and you get the idea.

You see here, costumes from the Ballet Russe of the early 20th Century and an 19th Century men’s banyan or at-home robe.

Learn more and get tickets here: https://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/Exhibition-Isabelle-de-Borchgrave-Fashioning-Art-from-Paper

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Paper costumes of three brigands from the ballet Daphnis and Chloë (1912), initially designed by Léon Bakst. Made in March 2009. Dimensions : 80 cm x 35 cm x 100 cm. Photo : René Stoeltie. www.isabelledeborchgrave.com

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all of these outfits r made out of paper....

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Un mondo di carta

Isabelle de Borchgrave incontra Mariano Fortuny

Mostra e catalogo a cura di Pascaline VatinBarbini

Skira, Milano 2008, 120 pagine, 113 Illustrazioni a colori, Trilingue Italiano Inglese Francese,  24 x 16.5cm, ISBN  9788861307193

euro 29,00

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Mostra Venezia Museo Fortuny 15 marzo 21luglio 2008

Isabelle de Borchgrave ci racconta Mariano Fortuny, il suo genio, il suo mondo, il suo Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, la sua famiglia, i suoi amici, i suoi vestiti e tessuti in questo carnet de voyage ricco di evocazioni ed emozioni, e illustrato con disegni, acquerelli e fotografie. Impressioni di un incontro tra due artisti. Attraverso le pagine del volume è possibile ritrovare l’atmosfera sorridente e ironica della casa-atelier di Fortuny, mentre la genialità creatrice di Isabelle de Borchgrave (la sua perizia tecnica, il suo consumato colpo d’occhio di scenografa smaliziata e di illusionistica illustratrice, di grande artefice, insomma, di un mondo di carta in un universo di carte) ci introduce furtivamente proprio dentro a quelle forme, a quei segni e a quelle immagini tanto tenacemente sedimentate nella nostra memoria e nel nostro immaginario. Oltre ottanta tra abiti, accessori e trompe-l’oeil realizzati interamente in carta con incredibile perizia e un talento inconfondibile dall’artista belga Isabelle de Borchgrave tratteggiano un insolito percorso nella vita e nel mondo di Fortuny, ne illustrano episodi e personaggi salienti, creando nel suo palazzo-museo ambientazioni e modelli tridimensionali coinvolgenti. Isabelle, personaggio eclettico, spazia dalla pittura all’alta moda, dal tessile alla decorazione, dal design a una particolarissima lavorazione della carta, sempre lo stesso semplice tipo di carta bianca che, nelle sue mani, si trasforma con effetti di seta, damasco, pizzo, plissé, in innumerevoli varianti di colori, di toni, di decori. Contando su un’abilità minuziosa, trae ispirazione da un occhio attento e infaticabile, oltre che da una singolare attitudine alla sperimentazione.Per questo l’incontro con l’opera di Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949) - pittore, fotografo, creatore di abiti e costumi, mobili, scenografie e luci per il teatro - è per lei fatale. Il volume, realizzato in occasione della mostra veneziana, ha il compito di sottolineare non solo la preziosità degli abiti tridimensionali ma una sfida più complessa: restituire un sogno, un’atmosfera, un’epoca, non dal punto di vista filologico ma attraverso una partecipazione e condivisione empatica totale.

18/11/21

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Amazing dresses, costumes made out of paper and other artworks from Brussels based artist & designer Isabelle de Borchgrave at https://isabelledeborchgrave.com/ "Bronze chair & foot stool", © Isabelle de Borchgrave