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Richard Savoie.

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Favourite Designs: Linda Friesen ‘The Raven Queen’ Haute Couture Gown

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More than 700 years old home. Carved out from volcanic rock in Mount Sahand. Kandovan, Iran

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Jan Švankmajer’s Castle of Otranto (1977) is an animated adaptation of Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel of the same name. This novel is credited with the start of the genre of gothic fiction, and was heavily influential on the horror genre as a whole.

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Evening dress, 1912-13

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

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Robe a l’Anglaise

c.1770

British

This robe à l’anglaise is a superb expression of the English taste in dress—skillful cut and construction, and free from elaborate trimmings—a sensibility that increasingly influenced European modes of dress in the late eighteenth century. The refined simplicity and neat tailoring associated with English dress grew increasingly influential in France during the latter half of the eighteenth century. By the 1770s, French fashion magazines regularly featured the robe à l’anglaise, praising its elegance and modest charm. This example is impeccably made and discreetly adorned, its sole ornamentation being bands of pinked, self-fabric trim. The choice of textile, a delicately patterned silk damask dating to the 1730s, is evidence of the common eighteenth-century practice of repurposing finely woven fabrics.

The MET (Accession Number: 2018.111a, b)

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In the 1976 adaptation of Carrie, Brian De Palma based Carrie’s posture and walk at the end of the film after Gustave Moreau’s 1851 painting The Study of Lady Macbeth.

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The Ultimate Evolution Crafted from wire, paper, faux plants, garbage bags, and fairy lights.

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Emil Lauffer (1837-1909), Kriemhild’s Accusation (Kriemhild accuses Gunther and Hager of murdering her husband Siegfried), 1879, oil on canvas, 191 x 300 cm. National Gallery Prague

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Polish postcards illustrated by Z. Stryienska, 1930s.

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Leonid Kozienko

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Anna May Wong photographed by Carl van Vechten, 1932

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A collection of carved turnips climb a set of stairs in a derelict house in Cambridge. part of an art exhibition ‘Black Shuck; a strange and terrible wonder’ by  John Piper, Jackie Piper & Andrew Wilkinson

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Catacomb hairdresser

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Wings