Théophile Gautier, poet and dandy: famous tailored vest like a doublet, worn at the Hernani premiere.   Robert de Montesquiou, Count, and dandy, painted by Boldini in 1897: superchic, in all black and gray.   David Beckham, “full wallet and flat stomach ”: the soccer star is the “metrosexual” …

Quando finirete, fiocchi che scendete, d’assalir come per caso la punta del nostro naso! CHARLES MARTIN 1913

When will you end, snowflakes which descend, Assailing as if by blows, upon the tip of my nose! CHARLES MARTIN 1913

  L’ANNUNCIAZIONE – AVORIO DATABILE ALL’XI SECOLO MUSEI D’ARTE, MILANO Una nuova e più sciolta grazia del portamento mette in valore l’ampiezza del mantello a cappuccio, che si drappeggia con morbidezza sulle braccia mettendo in vista il fregio e la frangia annodata che ne orna i lembi, la lunga tunica …

  ANNUNCIATION – IVORY DATED AT THE XI CENTURY – ART MUSEUM, MILAN A new, more fluid grace of bearing highlights the width of the mantel and hood, which drapes softly over the arms displaying the adornments and the knotted tassel which decorate its corners. The long tunic folded in …