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chiffonandribbons: Elie Saab
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hautekills: Christian Lacroix haute couture s/s 2006
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cirquedufromage: Comme des Garçons - Fall 2012 - Look No. 36
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Rembrandt, Portrait of Maria Trip (detail), 1639. This beautifully dressed young woman is Maria Trip, the daughter of a rich Amsterdam merchant. Rembrandt - who was at this time one of the most important portrait painters in Amsterdam - painted her in 1639. Maria was twenty years old and still unmarried. Two years later she married Balthasar Coymans who had gathered a fortune in business. He was thirty years older than Maria. Rembrandt has made the most of Maria’s rich clothes and jewellery by playing with the light and shade. A small light dances in each pearl. Even the thick folds of her black clothes shine with the light. The gossamer-fine linen is brilliantly depicted: the black fabric of the dress on her shoulders and the skin tones of her chest, glimmer through the white. She is holding a folded fan with a ribbon of gold lace that falls across her hand. Throughout the painting, Rembrandt has added subtle edges of shadow: in the sleeves, along the collar and on her hand.
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createdmagicalbeauty: Christian Tagliavini
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historicalfashion: Linen-lined Silk Bodice, Snowshill Collection, c. 1770-80
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