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  Designs embroidered with elk fur on a box of birch bark, most likely by Lorette Huron, around 1860. The human figure is portrayed with the traditional costume: shirt with a scarf and red stockings with garters at the knee. Encouraged by missionaries, the Hurons created many artifacts of that …

  Photographer and celebrity alike were under pressure to produce an interesting layout, one that would hold the attention of the reader, so the rapport between them was of the utmost importance. The photographer was invading the inner sanctum of the home and, given the performer’s natural distrust of the …

  GEORGE BARBIER (Nantes, October 10, 1889 – Paris, 1932) was a painter, illustrator and designer of French fashion. A pupil of Jean Paul Laurens at the Paris “National school of Fine Arts”, he began to display his work in the Humorists’ Salon in 1910, under the pseudonym of Edouard …

  CITIZENS OF MILAN RETURNING TO MILAN AFTER THE DESTRUCTION BY BARBAROSSA – BAS-RELIEF ON THE ARCHWAY OF PORTA ROMANA – YEAR 1171 – CITY MUSEUM, MILAN   The naïve coarseness of the figurative elements perfectly represents masculine apparel in the XII century in its every detail: short hair parted …

  It derives its name from the Swedish tie maker Amanda Christensen who in one of her ads, illustrated this knot of particular crossed movement.