Camara Dia Holloway
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Channeling the Flapper Girl | The New York Times
http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/channeling-the-flapper-girl/?smid=pl-share May 15, 2013 By CATHY HORYN Paul Popper/Time Life Pictures, via Getty ImagesA tableau from the ’20s, when women dressed in a classic style that was at ease with the era, and took advantage of the freedom offered by having their own cars. Slick. That’s the best thing you can say about the style…
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La Baker Redux
The perennial interest in our first black international star seems to be on an uptick again. Huffington Post put this style feature-ette about Josephine Baker up today–with a very glossed over mention of her “dark skin” when in fact the fairness of her skin was just as problematic: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/josephine-baker-beauty-photos_n_3267033.html Colorism anyone? Another post appeared on…
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Out Of Africa
Eternal Afrochic. The trend launched early in the 20th century that I research remains in vogue.
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Egyptomania…encore!
I didn’t have the chance to discuss this photograph of Anna May Wong wearing a hat referencing the one worn by Neferetiti in her famous portrait bust in my recent talk about Egyptomania and fashion — and I don’t even know why Wong was photographed wearing it — but it’s such a great image so…
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An Evening With Edward Kennedy Ellington
Black sartorial splendor! I will be chronicling how blackness influenced style in my book. Wish me luck finishing it this summer.
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“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing”*…
(Roughly) Daily The Robe à la Française, a gown popular throughout much of the 18th century, consists of an open front robe exposing a highly decorative underskirt, double box pleats at the back showcasing expansive ornate Rococo textiles, a square neckline and a conical shaped bodice achieved by a stomacher. The stomacher, or the triangular panel at the…
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