thevintagethimble:

Coat, Date: first quarter 20th century Culture: Albanian Medium: wool, metal, silk, cotton | THE MET

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gifmovie:

Charlie Chaplin moonwalk

vivelareine:

When Gilbert Adrian began to design his sumptuous, extravagant gowns for MGM’s Marie Antoinette, the feature was intended to be filmed in color. Adrian spared no expense in choosing the most extravagant of fabrics, colors and designs for his pieces—much to the ire of the MGM heads who balked at the increasingly high production cost for the film. When Sidney Franklin was replaced as director by W.S. Van Dyke, the decision was made to cut the plans for technicolor and film Marie Antoinette in black and white to curb the already bloated budget for the film. The result was that many of Adrian’s gowns, as seen in the film, appear in extremes of black or white—such as a gown worn by Anita Louise as the princesse de Lamballe, which appears entirely black on film but was in fact purple; or the apparently white ballgown worn by Norma Shearer which was actually a brilliant shade of light blue.

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Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson in Beyond the Rocks, 1922

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historyforbreakfast:

lostsplendor:

Coco Chanel, 1910 (via)

Before reading the caption, I thought this was a royal I had never heard of :P So distinguished and gorgeous

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collective-history:

Lionel Logue (speech therapist to King George VI) and his fiance Myrtle at the time of their engagement in 1906 

Well hello there cutie. 

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Favorite Artists in Detail: Georges de Feure

Downton Abbey (TV Series)

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

鷺娘の精 (The spirit of the heron maiden .woodblock print by Taniguchi Kokyo , dated 1925

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Water Serpents I, Gustav Klimt (Detail, c. 1904-07)

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dendr0philia:

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loquaciousconnoisseur:

Salvador Dalí

The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1958-59

The Ecumenical Council, 1960

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vlajean:

elissa likes art - no.34

henry patrick raleigh (1880-1944)