Word: edwardian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Milton was a very interesting, understated dresser. But the literary dilettante I am most inspired by was probably my maternal grandfather. Both my grandfathers were literary dilettantes. That is to say they wrote execrable poetry with great enthusiasm. They had most of Tennyson memorized.THC: How Victorian of them!GT: Edwardian. I’m not of that age yet.THC: Are you inspired by any screen idols? Cary Grant? Gregory Peck? Jimmy Stewart?GT: Oh yes, Cary Grant was a fantastically careful man. In the really old films the men were dressed wonderfully, and it’s amazing what these...
...four segments of “Haute,” the Vestis Council’s fall fashion show, promise to accommodate a wide range of periods and genres, from Edwardian lace and velvet to the trenchcoats of film noir...
...emphasis is on clean lines, strict construction, and an Edwardian obsession with detail, whether it be filigree or nonsensical ties. However, in order to avoid looking like Helena Bonham Carter, deflect this fall’s overweening romanticism with a tailored or modern piece, allowing you to seamlessly transition from class to an awkward date at Grafton Street...
...debt is evident from the novel's first page. "One may as well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father," it begins, updating Forster's blasé opener, "One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister." Thereafter, Smith revamps Forster's Edwardian battle of wills between the liberal-minded Schlegel sisters and the snobbish Wilcox clan into a modern academic feud that sweeps up the families of Howard Belsey, a white, English, radically-minded art-history professor at a prestigious New England liberal-arts college, and guest lecturer Monty Kipps, a black, traditionalist...
...preparation, Galliano and his team spent hours poring over sketches at the couturier's historic home in Granville in Normandy. The resulting show, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Dior's birth, started with two black stallions and a turn-of-the-century carriage that deposited a glorious Edwardian vision in gray tulle onto the runway. The audience was treated to a fashion history lesson, the postwar full-skirted New Look that put Dior on the map giving way to a series of 1950s-style debutante gowns and finally a parade of Hollywood-inspired entrancemakers - all deconstructed to look...