Un an avant l’expo « John Singer Sargent. Éblouir Paris » au musée d’Orsay, la Tate Britain a mis à l’honneur l’amour du peintre américain pour la mode.
- Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
The exhibition does a good job of countering the narrative of excess around the queen till its last room.
‘Gemstones are the earth’s creation, but they are a human fascination.’
Art critics are wrong to discount what we can learn about the master painter from how he engaged with fashion and the fashionable.
Jewellery and fashion accessories have been popular tokens of love for centuries.
The Victorians are to blame for our conservative ideas about how a pregnant body should look
El corsé, representado como una prenda interior restrictiva y dolorosa, suele presentarse como un símbolo de la opresión de la mujer en las obras de época.
Depicted as a restrictive and painful undergarment, the corset is often depicted as a symbol of women’s oppression in period dramas.
People have always wanted others to know they’re smart, and what better way to do that than with clothes?
The costumes in period dramas are opulent and highly memorable, shaping how we think of the royal family beyond the screen.
Could spending money on goods and produced in the UK help bolster the crumbling economy?
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