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Deborah Stein

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Horst P. Horst

Dinner suit and headdress by Schiaparelli

1947

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Ninotchka (1939) | Dir. Ernst Lubitsch

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 7.A.M. (New Year’s  Morning), 1930

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Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, Pays Basque

France, 2019

Takeshi Shikama

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the last figs, & their hummingbird keeper

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TIEPOLO Winter Stroll 1757 Fresco Villa Valmarana ai Nani, Vicenza

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Copper alloy thimble, 15th-16th Century

From the London Museum

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Box with a set of buttons. England, c. 1800–1820, steel; box: paper, wool, cotton, leather.

Men often had a set of matching buttons: large ones for a coat, small ones for a waistcoat. In the early 19th century Europe was gripped by the Napoleonic wars. Citizens had to hand over their gold and silver – jewellery included – to finance them. Out of necessity, steel became a popular material for jewels and buttons. It could be polished to a high shine.

www.rijksmuseum.nl

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Costume Parisien Fashion Plate, 1799

From Paris Musees, les Musees de la Ville de Paris

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Greta Garbo (with her Verdura compact)

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Sophia Loren and her mother Romilda Villani attends a parade Dior atelier in 1974

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Jeanne Moreau

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Anais Nin // "As I passed I saw a cafe, a cafe on the street, with an open door, and one small round table outside, just big enough for two persons, two glasses of wine, two small iron chairs, a diminutive cafe…shabby, with a faded sign, a dull window, lopsided walls, uneven roof. The smallness of it, the intimacy of it, the humanity of its proportion… A human being feels one can sit in such a cafe even if one’s hair is not perfectly in place and one’s shoes are not shined... One could sit there and feel unique, feel in tune with the world, or out of tune, feel human and open to human emotion... One could sit there if one felt the world too big and too barbaric, and feel once more in a human setting, a proper setting for a human being… Why did I feel warmed by imperfections, discomfort, and patina? Because intense living leaves scars…inner scars, softened, human wear and tear."

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Mario Sironi - Figura con libro (Figure with book), 1928.