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The fans of the androgynous divas of the past, Greta Garbo, Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, have never forsaken it, nor have they stopped wearing it with pants. But ever since Audrey, the other Hepburn, pulled it out of the masculine wardrobe in the 50’s to wear it with a …

In fashion, as we are now experiencing a stylistic return to the origins, it translates into a reevaluation of the codes dictated by sobriety: the must haves which must be present in every wardrobe. With a timeless classic, such as a white shirt, hanging in our summer, winter and seasonal …

  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” …

  Henry III, the last of Frances’ Valois Kings, launched the trend of shots of his “favorites,» with suspicions of homosexuality. Luigi XIV, the Sun King consecrated two trends: wigs and the “talons rouges”, red heals reserved for noblemen. His were 12 cm. high. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, create the elegance of …

  Moving on to Petrarch who, in order to win the affection of Laura, curled his hair with instruments and used painful, kilometric-pointed shoes. During the Renaissance Carlo V who in Titian’s portrait wears a jockstrap and shorts.   Henry VIII was crazy about jewels – you can count 114 …