Word: dandyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dandyism," proclaims British Designer Hardy Amies. Certainly the clothes shown by Amies and five other leading menswear designers last week at a fashion think tank in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel were anything but ordinary. Amies himself, for example, experimented with a boldly checked, double-breasted gangster suit and ruffled shirt-a combination too much even for him. "Rather awful," he blurted. "I hope it does not look idiotic." Paris Designer Pierre Cardin's vision of future male fashion included black leather pants with a matching leather shirt, laced up the front. Roman Tailor Angelo Litrico, who has made...
Beardsley was decadent and dainty, the epitome of the late-Victorian dandyism that prized artificiality over nature. It is a pity that he never used mauve ink. Oscar Wilde once paid him the compliment of calling him "a monstrous orchid," and Beardsley, relishing his role, jotted on the back of one sketch proof...
Wilde rebutted the industrial revolution with flowing locks and velvet suits; he warded off its fumes with a long-stemmed flower. The modern dandy, on the other hand, revels detachedly and deliciously in the vulgarity of mass culture. And the word is not dandyism any more. According to one of Manhattan's brightest young intellectuals, Novelist Susan Sontag, the word is "Camp...
...longer piece is a poignant comedy called The Conclusion. Amulya (Soumitra Chatterjee), a young student decked out in all the trappings of intellectual dandyism-city shirt and coat, Argyle socks, polished shoes-comes home from college and marries trouble wrapped in a sari: an underprivileged tomboy, nicknamed Puglee, with a laughing face and eyes like a temple deity. Amulya's mother is horrified, and Puglee, still a child, is rebellious...
This theme of embarrassment with jewelry making is one that artists revel in. Jean Arp says: "I made my first 'jewel' in 1914. I wore it myself as a tiepin. It was my period of dandyism." Giacometti says his first clips and buttons were made "to earn some money" and that, in recent years, he has refused invitations to make some jewelry because he has not been able to "summon up enough interest...