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This Charming Man

October 8, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

  This Charming Man    ‘If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.’                                             Beau Brummell (George Bryan Brummell 1778-1840)   2020 is a year where fashion was sidelined. As the pandemic seized control of the globe, fashion was … [Read more…]

Posted in: Fashion, Historical, Mavericks & Renegades, Social Comment Tagged: 1700's, Beau Brummell, Brummell, Dandies, Dandyism, Dior, eighteemth century, fashion, George Bryan Brummell, George IV, men's fashion, Prince Regent, Regency England

The woman who astonished Picasso

August 23, 2017 by Lesley Truffle

Marchesa Luisa Casati When I was doing research for my novel, Hotel du Barry, I read up on luxury European hotels in the early twentieth century. The London and Paris Ritz became my favourite hotels and I discovered the Marchesa Casati because she was a devotee of the Paris Ritz. Her nickname was ‘Medusa of … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Mavericks & Renegades, Observations, Social Comment Tagged: Baron Adolf de Meyer, fashion, Italian, Jean Cocteau, Lesley Truffle, Man Ray, Marchesa Luisa Casati, Paris, Picasso, The Ritz, Venice

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