Word: edwardianism
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...preparation, Galliano and his team spent hours poring over sketches at the couturier's historic home in Granville in Normandy. The resulting show, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Dior's birth, started with two black stallions and a turn-of-the-century carriage that deposited a glorious Edwardian vision in gray tulle onto the runway. The audience was treated to a fashion history lesson, the postwar full-skirted New Look that put Dior on the map giving way to a series of 1950s-style debutante gowns and finally a parade of Hollywood-inspired entrancemakers - all deconstructed to look...
...erotic kinks of foot-bound "sing-song girls," and the power of opium in a culture in which at least one Chamber of Commerce used the drug as the official standard of exchange. To his appetite for low company Seagrave adds an urbane taste for incongruity, a penchant for Edwardian epigrams ("There is a time for fools to come forth, when only bandits can be kings") and a gift for painterly description: Taiwan is a realm of "cliff-lined seascapes and misty peaks that unrolled each dawn from the scroll of night...
When T.S. Eliot, Class of 1910, looked out of his soon-to-be-Eliot House window and saw an imposing icescape of Edwardian poetry, sparkling but frozen in its ways, did he shy away? No. After a few whiskeys in the offices of the Harvard Advocate, he sallied forth and ate the oppressive literary sundae whole, producing Four Quartets several hours later before indulging in a quick Rum Raisin nightcap...
...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder of the inner harbor - and you elevate the experience to a marvelous new level. Conclude it with a gourmet meal for two in the gilded lobby of the Edwardian-era Peninsula hotel - not more than a minute from the ferry pier - while a string quartet plays in the gallery overhead, and you have one of the world's consummate travel experiences. That's the object of the Cruise and Dine package, launched by the Peninsula in conjunction with Hong...
High collars at Christian Lacroix, lots of lace at Louis Vuitton--there's no question that Edwardian style is a top trend for fall. And with Miramax's Finding Neverland--about the Edwardian-era playwright J.M. Barrie, who created Peter Pan--opening Oct. 22, the timing is perfect for a return to propriety. Costume designer Alexandra Byrne isn't surprised by the revival on the runways. "That period is meant to be really flattering and feminine," she says. Just don't overdose: a little frill goes a long...