Monday 14 September 2009

Dresser of souls


Lady Duff Gordon




Lucile: London, Paris, New York and Chicago








Stage costume by Lucile, circa 1915



For me there was a positive intoxication in taking yards of shimmering silks, laces as airy as gossamer and lengths of ribbons, delicate and rainbow-coloured, and fashioning of them garments so lovely that they might have been worn by a princess in a fairy-tale. - Lucile


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4 comments:

Easy and Elegant Life said...

That's it, I'm off the computer and onto the lounge chair with "The Glass of Fashion." Thanks for the push HOBAC!

An Aesthete's Lament said...

I thrill just as much to the knowledge that Elinor Glyn was her sister! And that Captain Molyneux got his start with Lucile, I think. When I think Lucile I think ribbons. And who snapped her photograph? Lovely image.

Pamela Terry and Edward said...

Very Edith Wharton.

Katherine Lee said...

I think I was born in the wrong century... no, wait... (looks at the dresses again)... yep, I was.

xo Katherine aka. Urban Flea :)