Walden was an Americanlandscape painter active in Hawaii, Cornwall, Wales and France. Particularly known for his seascapes, and depictions of Hawaii, which constitute the first noteworthy attempts by a professional artist to portray the region in painting.
He’s in 4SDesigns by Salvadoran-American designer Angelo Urrutia. “The fabric is heavy silk/wool faille inspired by noble immigrant workers,” says Urrutia of the look.
Riz Ahmed: “This is an homage to the immigrant workers who kept the Gilded Age going.”
Blake Lively wore an Atelier Versace design inspired by New York City’s Liberty of Freedom Statue with a dramatic transformation on the Met Gala 2022 red carpet.
“I think Versace thought I was crazy when I called them and pitched this…Rather than looking at fashion from the Gilded Age, I wanted to look at architecture”
• Transforms (on colour co-ordinated carpet) from copper to pattinated
• The column detailing of the dress homage to the Empire State building
• Draping from the Statue of Liberty
• Train features the constellation of Grand Central Station
• Seven spikes on the crown like the seven spikes the Statue of Liberty had representing the seven seas and seven continents representing inclusivity welcomness and freedom
• Twenty-five stones representing Statue of Liberty’s twenty-five windows
I’m begging you girlies to google what gilded age is because the amount of people I’ve seen on twitter getting upset because no one has shown up to the met in a full marie antoinette / bridgerton gown is actually insane
What Sebastian Stan wore at the 2022 edition of the Met Gala is not exactly what I expected for a Gilded Age themed event. Let’s say I had in mind something closer to the artworks above but that’s just me (I’m happy he had fun in his pink outfit that night, though )
The theme of this year’s Met Gala and accompanying exhibition is ‘In America: An Anthology of Fashion’ which apparently means they are taking inspiration from the Gilded Age (∼1870-1900) in the United States. According to the invitations, the dress code is 'gilded glamour, white tie.’ We usually see at least a couple of tiaras at the Met Gala but this year I’m hoping for a lot of them!
Tiaras were very popular for wealthy women in the Gilded Age which I love because most people think that tiaras are just for royalty and that is not true at all. The trouble is that non-royal tiaras are so much more difficult to find information about than their royal counterparts and I’m always on a mission for info into American tiaras. Here’s a few Gilded Age tiaras to get us exited!
Mary-Louise Hungerford MacKay’s Trefoil Arabesque Tiara by Boucheron, 1889
Alva Smith Vanderbilt’s Pearl Tiara by Boucheron, 1890
Julia Kemp’s Diamond Tiara by Tiffany & Co., 1894
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Diamond Tiara by Boucheron, 1896
Cornelia Sherman Martin’s Diamond Flame Tiara, before 1897
JP Morgan’s Diamond Winged Tiara by Cartier, 1901 (I’m assuming he bought this for someone else and wasn’t just wearing it around the house but you never know)
Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field’s Diamond Tiara by Cartier, 1902
Mary Morgan Burn’s Ruby Tiara by Boucheron, 1903
Harry Payne Whitney’s Wreath Tiara by Cartier (I assume he bought this for his wife, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, but his sister-in-law, Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi, was photographed wearing a very similar tiara in all diamonds)
Mary Scott Townsend’s Diamond Tiara by Cartier, 1905
The Thousand Islands are a group of more than 1,800 islands in the St. Lawrence River, straddling the border of the U.S. and Canada.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many distinguished visitors made the region widely known as a summer resort. During the half century (1874–1912) of the resort’s greatest prominence, most wealthy vacationers came from New York City, joined by prominent families from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and other cities of the United States and Canada. Several grand hotels provided luxurious accommodations while steamboats offered extensive tours among the islands. Wealthy and middle-class summer residents built summer homes, and the region retains a historically important collection of vacation homes from this time.
Among the lavish homes built during this time were several masonry “castles”, some of which remain as international landmarks. The region’s first castle, Castle Rest, was built in 1888; it was destroyed in the mid-20th century. The most famous extant examples are “The Towers” on Dark Island, now called Singer Castle, and the previously long-neglected Boldt Castle on Heart Island, which had been left unfinished for over 75 years upon the untimely death of George Boldt’s wife. It has since been completed over the recent decades in accord with Boldt’s original plans.
The Thousand Islands have long been a center for recreational boating. Large steam yachts, many designed by Nathanael Herreshoff, required distinctive yacht houses. The region was known also for innovative power boating during this period. Three local yacht clubs hosted the Gold Cup Races of the American Power Boat Association for nine consecutive years.
The great “magician” himself! Dr. (though he wasn’t really!) Walford Bodie, a hypnotist inspired by the image of Charlie Chaplin and the wonders of Houdini, was a popular act in the Edwardian era. He hypnotized patients, and claimed he could cure any sickness doing so with his “bloodless surgery”.
