#marcel proust
Sentivo che le cose stavano per mettersi male, e ripresi precipitosamente a parlare di vestiti.
(cit. Proust, Alla ricerca del tempo perduto)
Rimpiangevo di non aver avuto il tempo e l’ispirazione di offenderla, di farle male, e di costringerla a ricordarsi di me. La trovavo così bella che avrei voluto poter tornare sui miei passi a gridarle, alzando le spalle: “Come vi trovo brutta, grottesca, come mi ripugnate!”. E invece mi allontanavo, portando per sempre con me, come archetipo di una felicità inaccessibile ai ragazzi della mia specie in base a leggi naturali impossibili a trasgredirsi, l’immagine di una ragazzina rossa con la pelle cosparsa di efelidi rosa, che reggeva una vanga e lasciava scorrere su di me, ridendo, lunghi sguardi sornioni e inespressivi.
Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann
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Marisa Berenson in a Paul Poiret dress as the Marchesa Luisa Casati for the Proust Ball at the Rothschild family’s opulent Château de Ferrières in France, Photo by Cecil Beaton, December 1971.
Tribute to Marchesa Luisa Casati.
Marisa Berenson went as Marchesa Luisa Casati to The Proust Ball—the idea of costume designer Piero Tosi, with whom Berenson had just worked on the film Death in Venice. “You are not going to go like all those other women,” he proclaimed, instead dressing her in a Paul Poiret dress adorned with jeweled snakes, a curled red wig, black lipstick, and a black tiara. “When I walked in, nobody recognized me,” she says. “I had so much fun because I was totally sticking out from everybody else.
The Proust Ball (Le Bal Proust ), December 2, 1971.
The Proust Ball, thrown in honor of the 100th anniversary of Marcel Proust’s birth in 1871, might be considered Marie-Helene de Rothschild’s greatest triumph. Around 350 guests attended the extremely rich dinner at her home outside of Paris, the Château de Ferrières, with 350 or so more arriving in time for a second, later dinner. Among the guests were Audrey Hepburn, Princess Grace of Monaco, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton, while Cecil Beaton was the night’s photographer. French model and actress Marisa Berenson remembers the night, saying, “As soon as you arrived at Ferrières it was like going back in time, but more luxuriously with highly refined taste… . The women wore dresses, bodices, big headdresses, tiaras, lots of jewelry. It was truly the era of Proust.” (x)
Guests at her other balls included Yul Brynner, Brigitte Bardot, Gregory and Veronique Peck, Rudolf Nureyev, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Cecil Beaton, Princess Grace of Monaco and the Duchess of Windsor.
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Aries: “Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.”
Taurus: “Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.“
Gemini: “The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”
Cancer: “Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
Leo: “Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.”
Virgo: “It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
Libra: “The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.”
Scorpio: “The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
Sagittarius:“Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.”
Capricorn: “We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
Aquarius:“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
Pisces:“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
