little augury: Queen Victoria

19 April 2014

it's a PAAS colored world

H A P P Y E A S T E R

the rundown: Karen Graham photographed by Irving Penn, David Hockney, "The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire" 2011, Shelley Duvall in Vogue 1972, Antique Pigments, Paul Gauguin Portrait of a Young Woman 1896, Erte Illustration 1968, Adrian Cubist Dinner Dress, Queen Victoria and Family, Home of Bonnie Cashin, Bert Stern photograph of Halston beret Vogue March 1962, Doug and Gene Meyer Studio, Jane Forth photographed for Harper's Bazaar, Devotee of Vishnu, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India by photosadhu, Paul Klee, MGM's Easter Parade

13 April 2009

Victor Victoria

I can't wait to see this MOVIE... I have often said of books- put my characters in period costume and I will read just about anything. Movies apply too, It's not as it seems-but only expresses my devotion to history-since I was a child. I was the kid reading all the biographies in the library and I had- I might say- a somewhat odd crush on Helen Keller and Mary Lincoln.(hum?)

If you bow to the altar of Fashion, History, Design- ALL three?.... don't wait, Go see these photographs of Emily Blunt in the Vanity Fair shoot by Michael Roberts, wearing Christian Dior. The photographs were taken at Le Raincy, just outside Paris.

Miss Blunt portrays Queen Victoria in the new movie- The YOUNG VICTORIA. No doubt she does it well- she is an actress that can at once be beautiful, odd, and sadly dowdy on screen.

These portraits of Blunt capture the essence of the Winterhalter paintings of Queen Victoria as the young woman Miss Blunt portrays in the movie. Winterhalter loved the detail of the gown as his portraits witness and he would have been enraptured by Galliano. Without a doubt the most beautiful portraits of Victoria are the Winterhalters- painted as a young woman, as Queen at her coronation, as a young bride and as a young mother.

Miss Blunt wearing Chanel