RL c1919

1917-1920
wool jersey bathing costumes
photograph from my collection

just in case you are looking...Caftan Reprise

charmed, I'm sure. EEE book tour look.

THOMAS WYLDE

"British model-turned-designer Paula Thomas is the creative force behind punk chic label Thomas Wylde, with its signature mix of rebellious prints and luxe fabrics." from Net- A- Porter.com


more about Paula Thomas ? a "random questions" interview by The FASHION INFORMER here


SNAKES, the next big thing? go to Model's Own here, Ulla says.

the mystery of the yellow room by gaston leroux

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if you like a mystery a must read is The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux. Leroux wrote The Phantom of the Opera. the Yellow Room, originally published in French Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune in the 1907 periodical L'illustration.






Detective Joseph Rouletabille makes his first appearance in the Yellow Room- and has an impossible crime to unravel. Leroux holds nothing back -reader is given each detail found by Rouletabille along with floor plans of the crime scene.

read it online here

stairs to the attic

the laboratory

Boldini

Glandier
Professor Stangerson's Chateau

the Park

Mlle Stangerson's Bedroom

Mlle Stangerson's Drawing Room

Great Hall of Glandier

Long Gallery of the Chateau

characters illustrated by Boldini

Joseph Rouletabille 
the young journalist and detective
 

 

Frederic Larsan – distinguished police detective

 

Sinclair-the narrator & friend to Rouletabille

Professor Stangerson 
the scientist, owner of "Chateau du Glandier"

Mathile Stangerson 
daughter of the famous scientist & his assistant 

M.Robert Darzac- Mathile Stangerson's fiance

Jacques the caretaker

happier times
Mlle Stangerson & Darzac

Mlle Stangerson- the victim

the painful interrogation of Mlle Stangerson

the mysterious correspondence of Mlle

The novel finds its continuation in The Perfume of the Lady in Black where a number of the characters familiar from this story reappear.




all exterior and interior views from (here)


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kaftan love

Jean Etienne Liotard
1702-1789

Signora Antonella Agnelli, Vogue 1966

with her 2 year old son Gianni wearing a century old caftan from Casablanca

the inimitable ROSE Cumming

another Liotard

Comtesse Michel de Ganay
in Egyptian cotton stripe caftan

gorgeous Marina Rust in quaftan

I grow tired of summer, the heat, the humidity- but I never grow tired of my summer At Home uniform. Winter too for that matter.

Caftan-Origin 1585–95; Russian Kaftan, Turkish - Persian Qaftan


go to The Costume Institute to see their collection (here)
A 1970 Lanvin from the Costume Institute


in a Liotard painting

Alexandra Czarina in a traditional Russian kaftan

Model Lily Donaldson in bohemian caftan

YSL fantasy kaftan

Allegra Hicks designed this form fitting caftan

the designer Allegra Hicks

Aerin Lauder in Michael Kors

Principessa Nancy Ruspoli Vogue 1966
in a man's Moroccan caftan

Mrs Richard de la Mare
in a Liberty Caftan
vogue 1966

Mrs. Lesley Blanch
Vogue 1966

Mrs David Naylor-Leyland
Vogue 1966

"Mrs. Ahmet Ertegun" as Vogue put it in 1966
wearing a gold Moroccan caftan as an evening coat

& today, more beautiful as Mica

Muriel Brandolini

interior designer & fashion designer
(photograph by Carter Berg)

obviously a favorite with Marina Rust- this one by designed by Muriel Brandolini

an Ossie Clark

style.com
(I'd love to have this one)

and Andre Leon Talley

Willis Smalls and ALT in Diane Von Furstenberg caftan and Roger Vivier neclace, attend Maya Angelou’s July 5th brunch. photograph by Chase Beck

This photograph of ALT is just dynamite. I am crazy about this man. Read the story here. He has deep North Carolina connections and his 2003 book ALT: A Memoir is a book everyone interested in fashion, family, and destiny should read- That means everyone. Get it. Read it.

Wear a Caftan!



the Vogue 1966 photographs Cecil Beaton, Henry Clarke, Horst, Rastelli