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Most of those who argue for the importance of fashion as art restrict their attention to the highest echelon of couture, judging value by such indications as the ingenuity of construction, level of detail, perfection of drape and splendor of textile. Such features may be exhibited as easily on a...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seriously Fashionable | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

Speaking of clothing in such terms--the same terms T. S. Eliot uses when he describes the poetic process--lends fashion a prestige different from and greater than that of the cult of the couturier.

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seriously Fashionable | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

His work for the fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped...

Author: By Marcelline Block, AND CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Visual Arts and Music | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

His work for the fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped...

Author: By Nadia ANYMONE Michelle berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WOLS Wolfgang Otto Schulze | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

His work for the fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped...

Author: By Nadia ANYMONE Michelle berenstein, | Title: Wols (Wolfgang Otto Schulze) | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

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