EROTICASHION LFW HIGHLIGHTS | Estetica gotica e sessualità esplicita a Londra
EROTICASHION LFW HIGHLIGHTS | Estetica gotica e sessualità esplicita a Londra
La settimana della moda Autunno/Inverno 2022-2023 di Londra è stata pervasa dallo stesso spirito di spensieratezza di quella americana (post qui), solo con un focus maggiore su erotismo, romanticismo e trasgressione. Tanta pelle al sole in barba al freddo, latex nero, estetica brillante e dark. I nomi che vi dovete segnare sono: Richard Quinn, Nensi Dojaka, Edward Crutchley, Erdem.
Claim to fame: An advocate for women’s education, Christine is the first European woman known to have made her living as a writer.
Born the eldest child of the personal physician to King Charles V of France, Christine was well educated and benefited from access to the King’s vast library.
Christine was married at 15 and widowed just 10 years later. After her husband’s death, she turned to writing to support herself and her family, serving as a court writer for several dukes as well as Charles VI of France.
Her 1405 book, ‘La Cité des Dames’ (‘Book of the City of Ladies’), catalogued female accomplishment and helped establish her popularity. This book is considered by many as the inaugural text in the field now known as women’s studies.
Christine completed forty-one works during her career. Her work contradicted negative female stereotypes and countered unjust slander of women within other literary texts. She argued that women have the same aptitudes as men and thus the right to the same education. Christine’s influence in the otherwise male-dominated field of rhetorical discourse lead Simone de Beauvoir to acknowledge her as the first woman to “take up her pen in defence of her sex”.
“La Cité des Dames” inspired by the novel “The book of the City of Ladies” by Christine de Pizan. Original art in graphite, ink, and extra-fine watercolor
Details : “La Cité des Dames” inspired by the novel “The book of the City of Ladies” by Christine de Pizan. Original art in graphite, ink, and extra-fine watercolor
This is Christine de Pizan, the coolest lady in the middle ages and proto feminist.
Here are some of her accomplishments:
She was the first woman to live off her own work as a writer
Was the first woman to write a history book
Wrote several books and treaties against the stereotipation of women
Had her own “publishing agency”, where she employed at least one other woman as her miniaturist
Was all around really cool
I hope you all go learn more about her and share it with as many people as possible
Btw, the woman in the picture is Christine herself, as in every one of her books there were some illustrations where she was depicted while writing
Love y'all
Just resharing this because my girl Christine deserves all the love she can get!
Also, other than suggesting her work, if you want to know more about her life I would suggest the work on her by renowned italian historian Alessandro Barbero, which can be found either in video form on youtube or in book form in the amazing “Donne, Madonne, Mercanti e Cavalieri”
Another fun fact! Christine was actually Cristina, as she was born and spent part of her childhood in Italy!
“Those men who have slandered the opposite sex out of envy have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.” -Christine de Pizan, The City of Ladies, 1405. (image: British Library MS Harley 4431, f. 259v).
