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James Dean as Cal Trask EAST OF EDEN (1955) dir. Elia Kazan

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Morning Swim, Parliament Hill Lido - Rebecca Denton

British , b. 1980s -

Etching , colour etching inks , 50 x 50 cm. Ed. 40.

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Coffret, Medieval Art

Rogers Fund, 1909 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Silver gilt

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/463213

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-Going to Business-

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Slim Keith chatting with Diana Vreeland and her husband Reed at Kitty Miller's New Year's Eve party in Park Avenue, New York in 1952

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SLIM KEITH IN 1948 Horst P. Horst / Conde Nast via Getty Images

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At a royal gala in Copenhagen, 2004

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On her wedding day, 2004

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At Queen Magrethe's 50th anniversary of her ascension to the throne, 2022

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Martin Sylvest Andersen/Getty Images

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Offering icy looks in a bejewelled blue gown for Queen Margrethe's New Year's Banquet, a favourite in the current Queen's rotation

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ALEXANDER COCHRANE, MY GRANDFATHER KNOWN AS BUDSIE (BOY), NINI (YOUNGEST), VIVIAN (C.Z.'S MOTHER), C.Z. AND NANCY GUEST Courtesy of the author

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PRINCESS CHARLENE, PRINCE JACQUES AND PRINCESS GABRIELLA OF MONACO ATTEND THE THE CIRCUS PARADE SC Pool - Corbis/Getty Images

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DELAIDE LODGE, NOW KNOWN AS ADELAIDE COTTAGE, WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT FOR QUEEN ADELAIDE IN 1831 Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo

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Lucrezia Borgia in 2.10 “The Confession”

The Borgias

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One Dress a Day Challenge

July: Green Redux (+ Blue Redux)

Diane / Marisa Pavan as Catherine de Medici

The color of this green gown is very likely symbolic, as Catherine wears it for a private meeting with her new husband's mistress, shortly after her marriage. The green stands both for jealousy and for the poison Catherine "jokes" about using.

Several of these pictures were nabbed from this website, which has a lot of great background information about the film's costumes in general and this one in particular. Walter Plunkett liked to work from portraits when dealing with historical figures, and he likely based this dress on a 16th-century painting believed to be Catherine de Medici (see below). There's also a very good writeup at FrockFlicks, where they go into some depth on the detail of this dress, particularly the decoration.