Word: bleue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heroine is a passionate, headstrong beauty from the South who struggles to save the family estate and falls for a dashing stranger . . . A Cliff's Notes summary of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind? Not quite. It is the plot of La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle), a 400-page 1981 best seller by French novelist Regine Deforges. This week Deforges and her publishing company, which she now owns, are fighting to save their own fortunes in Paris, where they are defendants in a plagiarism suit brought by Mitchell's heirs...
...women's, men's and children's costumes, representing thousands of yards of fabric coaxed into stunning shape with a skill and diligence that today cannot be had anywhere outside of major surgery. The olfactory nerve, meantime, gets a good working over from L'Heure Bleue, a Guerlain scent that is sprayed every morning throughout the galleries. The senses reel. They are meant to. This is not art-if clothes may be called art at all-meant to be pondered and absorbed. This is curatorial show business of a particularly shrewd order. With the humble addition...
...fabrics of the dress, then its owner. The designer or the house that made the dress is relegated to smaller type. That is fitting enough, perhaps, for a show so smitten with what used to be called society. Nostalgia may waft through these corridors like L'Heure Bleue, but it is based in longing not for a vanished elegance but for trammeled privilege and status cut on the bias. Remembrance of rank past...