The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.
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Evening jacket
Yves Saint Laurent, Paris (French, founded 1961)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtFall/Winter 1989-90
(Source: metmuseum.org)
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Orientalism at it’s finest.
Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum
Douillet
c.1915
多様な形、素材のビーズやスパングルが使われ、複雑な光を放つ。1915年頃からスカートの前裾が短いデザインが見られるようになった。
(Source: digmus.bunka.ac.jp)
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Stomacher
Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum
c.1720-30
I’m always thrilled to see uneven stitching on clothing. We suffer from such a distorted thought of perfection in this century and I find it comforting that even in their adornment there was an accepted imperfection.
(Source: digmus.bunka.ac.jp)
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Basically what we can take away from this museum is that their collection of cultural costume and textiles are vast and amazing.
Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum
(Source: digmus.bunka.ac.jp)
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… For we will be wicked and we will be fair And they’ll call us such names, and we really won’t care, So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes, There’s a place they can go if they’re tired of chains, And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, But we’ll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost — We won’t take our place on the shelves. It’s better to fly and it’s better to die Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.
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