#fashionmavin

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Keeping my #carbonfootprint low as travel about #Mayfair @thewolseley @fortnums to buy my #tea & #turkishdelight ⚜️Im hoping to popularise #sedanchairs as another string in #Mayfair’s #publictransport system just as in 1625 following the arrival of our #eccentric #fashionmavin & #icon of #oscarwilde - Queen Henry’s (Henrietta-Marie’s) arrival at St James’s Palace In her #Sedanchair ⚜️the excitement of the assembled crowd was palpable - #artists in the front #sketchpads ready to capture our new 15 year old “Queen of #Fashion & The Arts” - A hush fell upon the crowd at they saw the first glimpse of her #scandalous 4 inch #diamond & #ruby encrusted #redsoled #stilettos as she alighted from the #sedanchair were captured by #artists & appeared in print in news sheets across igniting a #trend for #jewel encrusted stilettos across #Britain & #Ireland for both men & women ⚜️🥂🍾⚜️photography @muirvidler #antique #shotsilk #ballgown with train & #bustle from 1912 vintage @hermes #clementine #crocodilebirkin (at Fortnum & Mason) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Ayx-BAExG/?igshid=1jhahmvh6gh2

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@fashionscout has embraced #fashionasart by adding #artist @suedraylcf to @londonfashionweek @londonfashionweek2019 reigniting the historic tradition of capturing all the nuance of sartorial grandeur as only an artist can - just as in 1625 When the arrival of our #eccentric #fashionmavin & #icon of #oscarwilde - Queen Henrietta Marie first arrived in London - the excitement of the assembled crowd was palpable - #artists in the front #sketchpads ready to capture our new 15 year old Queen of fashion - a hush fell upon the crowd at they saw the first glimpse of her #scandalous 4 inch diamond & #ruby encrusted #stilettos as she alighted from the #sedanchair were captured by artists & appeared in print in news sheets across igniting a trend for jewel encrusted stilettos across Britain & Ireland’s men & women ⚜️Outraged #Puritans demanded they be banned but King Charles I himself ordered a pair & when Sir Kenelm Digby First brought his invention of sparkling champagne to her, Queen Henry as she became known, allowed Henry Jermyn to sip the #champagne from her shoe⚜️ Queen Henry used the power of #fashion to express #ideas with each new scandalous costume captured by artists ⚜️fashion as art has been used to express ideas as well as beauty has been a quintessential aspect of the British & Irish since 1603 when our first openly #gay monarch King JamesI abolished #sumptuary #laws which for centuries had kept individuals in their place by rigidly controlling the colours #textiles & #silhouettes men & women could wear according to #rank & #gender ⚜️Brava @fashionscout Brava @suedraylcf (at Victoria House Basement) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2bgw69AyHJ/?igshid=8gkq0kw8mqgi

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Keeping my #carbonfootprint low as I head from @royalacademyarts out to @fortnums to buy my #lapsangtea & #turkishdelight - Im hoping to popularise #sedanchairs for short jaunts as another string in the #mayfair #publictransport bow just as in 1625 following the arrival of our #eccentric #fashionmavin & #icon of #oscarwilde - #QueenHenriettaMarie arrival at #Stjames’sPalace in a #Sedanchair - For within a year #KingCharlesI added 125 Sedan-chair’s to the #HansomCarriages to bolster #London’s #publictransport system & opened up all the #RoyalParks for the free use of the public which sparked other trends such as #picnicsinthepark #Croquet & #spaniels - & other dogs - as beloved companions, rather than mere feet-warmers or sporting aides ...#sedanchairs to the rescue! @muirvidler @velveteccentric @hermes @blushbashfuluk @mayfair.times (at Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon at Fortnum & Mason) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2usTbegVaB/?igshid=vqeaswznsn5v

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#beaubrummell was a leading #mayfair #Regency #Dandy & like most #Eccentrics was a mass of tantalising contradictions ⚜️After designing the distinctive “ribbons” of his school uniform at #EtonCollege which remain enshrined as part of the uniform, Beau joined the #hussars 💜 The word homosexual wasn’t in use in his lifetime but #Dandy & Dandizette were first used as insults by #Puritan #bigots to deride “feminine men” & bookish #genderfluid #women in the #Halcyondecade of opulent fashion the 1630s! Both Dandy & #Dandizette were enthusiastically embraced by the #Cavaliers ⚜️Beau gave up his dream to be the #poet of the age & instead garnered his place in #history by redefining what masculinity meant through the sartorial ⚜️He was also famed for his prodigious Sulks - leaving #Cambridge in his first year after loosing the #Oriel #Poetryprize & claiming to have walked out on his #Hussar regiment because his uniform was soiled. ⚜️His statue stands in debonair elegance on #Jermynstreet - named for #HenryJermyn - the Father Of The #WestEnd & the first man to drink #champagne from Queen Henry’s 4inch ruby slipper in 1632. I raise a glass to both chaps at the @thewolseley every day but alas where is the statue to the Dandizette #artist #fashionmavin & #salonniere #DorothySavile Countess of Burlington who with her husbands lover #WilliamKent created the #SavileEstate in 1733 as the Mecca of gentleman’s tailoring (at Jermyn Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4YIe66gX-D/?igshid=1uoy36wbpckyg