The Ornamented Being

Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.

Posted 11 months ago
Poiret

c.1913

Kremlin Museum!
- poiret
- chiton
- fashion
- beauty
- orientalism
- paul poiret
- edwardian
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Posted 1 year ago
Modern interpretation of a Grecian Goddess? I just can’t decide if it looks more like a peplos or a chiton!

Callot Soeurs

c. 1918–19
- callot soeurs
- costume
- fashion
- flappers
- grecian
- greek
- chiton
- peplos
- costume
- fashion
- art
- beauty
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Posted 1 year ago
Ianthe, john william godward
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Posted 1 year ago
c. 1907–8

Met
- belle epoque
- grecian
- peplos
- chiton
- art noveau
- orientalism
- kimono
- japonism
- japon
- chinois
- oriental
- edwardian
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Posted 1 year ago
Leontyne Price in Verdi’s Aida 1985
(Source: cafecartolina.blogspot.com)
- chiton
- costume
- drape
- fashion
- grecian
- historical
- met
- opera
- peplos
- roman
- theatre
- toga
- aida
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Posted 1 year ago
I am totally out of my comfort zone but I find I don’t mind so much. Mad Carpentier was a master of beauty!

If Persephone lived in the 1940s I imagine she would find this dress suitable to her tastes. There is something about the drape of the silk that reminds me of a Grecian chiton.
- nymph
- grecian goddess
- goddess
- persephone
- beauty
- teal
- greek
- roman
- mythology
- costume
- fashion
- beauty
- chiton
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Posted 2 years ago
Fortuny late 1920s
- fortuny
- late 1920s
- art deco
- cleaopatra
- egyptian
- delphos
- dress
- chiton
- greek
- ancient
- costume
- fashion
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