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  Evening dress and shawl. By Worth. GEORGE BARBIER 1921

  After the Restoration, romantic and historicist electic hues dominated fashion. In line with nature’s rhythms, the light and delicate colors of summer, and the dark and severe ones of winter were preferred. From the 1850s on Paris of the Second Empire and Victorian England set the trends for women’s …

  From May 10th through August 19th, dresses and accessories of the past and present are on display in that which is a downright artistic and cultural journey that succeeds in expressing the femininity and modern styles from the 1920s to today… Inspired by Miguel Covarrubias, the exhibit presents a …

  Bobby sox idol and, at the time still a family man, FRANK SINATRA poses with wife Nancy.

      Whereas lace and embroidery had been the expression of the aristocratic decline, sober lines and plain colors, lightly accented with the carefree “rigatini” or striped cotton material, was the banner of the new military and bourgeois spirit of Napoleon’s era. Thus the pale but variegated palette of …