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R & B (Post no.2 on colour combinations in dress)

Mark Rothko Back to the topic of colour combinations, this time its red and blue, an all-time fashion favorite. Why? … More

blue, Clothing, colour combinations, Cordings UK, Englishwoman’s domestic magazine, fashion, Habitus praecipuorum, history of dress, L'Officiel, Mark Rothko, Nike Air Jordan, Palma il vecchio, red, renaissance, stripes, Thyssen-Bornemisza collection Madrid, Tibet, Tibetan monks, Trachten buch

The “Look at me!” stripe (post no.3)

Chardin, sealing the letter, 1733, Schloss Charlottenburg,  Berlin Germany In this post I want to concentrate on the attention seeking … More

accessories, Courtauld Institute of Art, fashion, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milan, stripes

THE INS AND OUTS OF STRIPES (Post no.2)

 Bartolomeo Veneto, possibly Lucrezia Borgia (wife of Alfonso I d’Este), 1500c, Snite museum, Indiana, USA There are many reasons for wearing … More

Alfonso I d’Este, Bartolomeo Veneto, fashion, fashion trend, Hans Holbein, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucrezia Borgia, silk, stripes, textiles, The Renaissance

Stripe out! (Post no.1…origins of striped clothing)

Illuminated manuscript, Iraq, De materia medica, 1229, Topkapi Sarayi Muzesi Library, Istanbul, Turkey The history of the striped fashion “trend” is a long and complex … More

Clothing, European fashion, fashion, Illuminated manuscript, Michel Pastoureau, mozarabic art, Spain, stripes, textiles

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