KLIMT'S MUSE

Surely everyone has admired the incredible dresses depicted in Gustav Klimt’s works.

Magnificent robes interwoven with gold like Byzantine mosaics where only the face and hands of these beautiful creatures are left exposed, stunning women resembling pagan idols with these amazing costumes studded with gems and decorations.

But perhaps not everyone knows that this genial Austrian artist, father of the Vienna Secession, at the beginning of the 1900s had started to create elegant and original dresses, comfortable and easy at the same time, for the woman who had been his muse for many years.

Emilie Floge was the younger sister of his sister – in – law, and with whom he shared a high fashion salon in Mariahilferstrasse. It was for her that Klimt created numerous outfits.

Emilie, one of the first women ever to abolish tight corsets, loved to wear these delicate and innovative creations and used to pose for photography shoots by the painter himself.

In 1902 the artist depicted her in a portrait entitled “The Virgin”, where she appears at the center of a sensual tangle of fabric and female bodies.