Word: dandyism
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...exhibit of about 200 engravings, prints, watercolors, drawings and photographs (from Ralph Lauren ads to Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique) opening at the New York Public Library this month. "A Rakish History of Men's Wear" surveys the factors?sumptuary laws, chivalrous codes, spiritual and marital values, dandyism and a bourgeois middle class?that helped men's style evolve from antiquity to today...
...HEADBLADE A fashionably shaved head is either the ultimate in minimalist dandyism or the 21st century version of the comb-over. HeadBlade's power razor has a form as curvy and clean as Patrick Stewart's pate. Nestle it in your palm and "comb" yourself bald. It's shear elegance...
...identities. As a brilliant writer, he exalted the camp aesthetic for art, and as a gay man, he modelled himself into a living monument to camp. To Wilde's credit, he never allowed the harsh conditions of his life to penetrate his undying belief in the campy aesthetics of dandyism...
True. Before long, Wilde's mannered dandyism was satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, whose immediate success on both sides of the Atlantic earned the intended butt of the joke an invitation to lecture in the U.S. At that point, in late 1881, Wilde had published one slim volume of poems to generally hostile reviews. No matter. New York City newspapers were so avid for a glimpse of this exotic flower that they hired a launch to ferry reporters out to Wilde's ship the evening before its docking. The press discovered plenty to report: a large...
...Brooklyn Museum, "The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900," would not even have been attempted by an American museum 15 years ago; the subject was too grossly out of sync with opinion. It was mandatory, for instance, to see an artist like Manet-with his dandyism and blague, his risky spontaneity and breadth of touch-as a father of later modernist painting. The fact that he also had deep affinities with "retrograde" realists of his own time, and was a 19th century rather than a "proto-20th century" artist, was sometimes played down...