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Magister Dixit:

"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles."

- Audrey Hepburn

Strike a Pose

We Are Family

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 María Cristina de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, Queen of Spain. Vicente López y Portaña. 1830.

Magister Dixit:

“Fashion is often dismal. Individual style, that makes us human.”

- Daphne Guinness

A Look We Like

Felipe III of Spain. Juan Pantoja de la Cruz. 1603.

 Happy Birthday!

Quo Vadis?

The Distribution of the Eagle Standards (details). Jacques-Louis David. 1810.

Coronation of Ferdinand I of Romania. 1922.

Pompa Vaticana

"I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway."

- Karl Lagerfed

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 Maria Amalia of Saxony by Louis de Silvestre. 1737.

Magister Dixit:

"Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that."

- John Galliano

Chez Valentino

The Coronation of the Virgin, Guido Reni. 1607.

A Look We Like

 Hermaphroditus asleep. Bernini, 1619.

Requiescat in Pace Anna Piaggi

 “It doesn't have to be Dior with Anna. She's always worn 1920s shoes with Dolce trousers and a vintage Patou coat and a plastic belt, and a ski pole for a walking stick and crazy blue hair and a funny hat. She's about the possibility of what fashion can be. It's not about chic, or a grand gesture, as it was with Diana Vreeland. With Anna it's about fun and interest and frivolity. It's her crazy jumble of things. But it's actually not at all crazy and not at all a jumble. It's very disciplined."

- Stephen Jones

Rex Lex

"I don't think dress should be an add-on. It should be an extension of who you are:"

- Daphne Guinness

A Look We Like

Charles I by Van Dyck. 

Requiescat In Pace

"At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care - if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler."

- Gore Vidal

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Parade Bourgonet, Filippo Negroli, 1543

 Agostino Pallavicini by Van Dyck. 1621.