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John Galliano for Christian Dior, Haute couture, Spring Summer Collection, 1998.
Tribute to Marchesa Luisa Casati.
The Palais Garnier.
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John GallianoforChristian Dior, Haute Couture, Spring Summer Collection, 1998.
Tribute to Marchesa Luisa Casati.
Opera Garnier, Paris.
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The Mysterious Sex Appeal of Gabriele D'Annunzio - Rogues Gallery Online.
Multi talented, charismatic and a bit of a Fascist, Gabriele D'Annunzio bedded over 1000 women (Marchesa Luisa Casati, Ida Rubinstein, Liane de Pougy, Isadora Duncan, Eleonora Duse, Luisa Baccara, Nathalie de Goloubeff, Franca Florio). His sensual secrets will amaze you.
Marchesa Luisa Casati had a long term affair with the author Gabriele D'Annunzio, who is said to have based on her the character of Isabella Inghirami in Forse che si forse che no (Maybe yes, maybe no) (1910).
Tom Ford and models, Spring Summer Collection 2011, Photo by Steven Meisel, Vogue, December, 2010.
To celebrate Tom Ford’s return to womenswear design after his six year absence, Vogue offered its readers a preview of the designer’s Spring 2011 collection photographed by Steven Meisel. Meisel’s image features Mr. Ford positioned amongst his designs in a fashion similar to Milton Greene’s portrait in 1960.
In homage to designer Norman Norell proudly standing amongst his muses: models dressed in his signature sequined sheath gowns along with the Marchesa Luisa Casati, portrayed in Kees van Dongen’s 1921 painting, The Quai, Venice. Photo by Milton Greene, Life Magazine, September, 1960.
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Jan Styka,Marchesa Luisa Casati, Capri, 1919-1920.
Collection of Dr. & Mrs R. Winter, New York.
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John GallianoforChristian Dior, Maria-Luisa (dite (called) Core) ball gown, Haute Couture, Spring Summer Collection, 1998.
Tribute to Marchesa Luisa Casati.
Exhibition at Chatsworth House, 25 March 2017 - 22 October 2017.
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“The Marchesa Casati, at sunset, reclining in her gondola, wrapped in tiger skins and fondling her favorite leopard, is a sight to be seen only in Venice.” - Baron Adolph de Meyer
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Federico Beltran Masses,La nuit d’Eve,Marchesa Luisa Casati, 1929.
Oil on canvas, 99 x 101 cm.
Barcelona, Colleciò Suñol.
Illustration for Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire, 1946.
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Liza Minelli, A Matter of Time, 1976.
Costumes by Andretta Ferrero.
Characters based on Marchesa Luisa Casati.
A Matter of Time is a 1976 American-Italian musical fantasy film starring Liza Minnelli and Ingrid Bergman, directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by John Gay is based on the novel The Film of Memory by Maurice Druon. The fictional story is based loosely on the real life exploits of the infamous Italian eccentric, the Marchesa Luisa Casati, whom Druon knew during her declining years in London while he was stationed there during World War II. The film marked the first screen appearance for Isabella Rossellini, the last for Charles Boyer, and it proved to be Vincente Minnelli’s final project. (x)
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Joseph Paget-Fredericks, Marchesa Luisa Casati - Fête à Versailles (Party at Versailles), furious costume, 1927.
The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California.
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Sasha Selavie on the inimitable Marchesa Luisa Casati.
(viaArtsbitching: Corpse Bride Blitzkreigl!)
Who could possibly make the flaming queen Quentin Crisp catch his breath and gasp, ‘She wasn’t beautiful – she was spectacular!’
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Art deco design Alphabet L for Luisa and Leopard by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
Media : Graphic Edition, Lithograph/Serigraph
Dimensions : 15 ¾ X 10 ½ Inches
Year Produced : 1976
Edition Size : 350 Numbered, I-XC Roman Numerals
Current Retail : $11,250.00
Tribute to Marchesa Luisa Casati.
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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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John GallianoforChristian Dior, Haute Couture, Spring Summer Collection, 1998.
Tribute to Marchesa Luisa Casati.
Opera Garnier, Paris.
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Costume design sketch by Léon BakstforMarchesa Luisa Casati,Queen of the Night costume from the opera The Magic Flute(1791)by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1920.
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Marchesa Luisa Casati in leopard-skin coat, Photo by American socialite, club woman and concert singer Tryphosa Bates Batcheller, 1906.
American socialite Tryphosa Bates Batcheller runs into Luisa Casati again on March 23, 1905, writing:
“We have just come in from the last hunt of the season, and a very pretty and brilliant sight it was, too. …You remember about my speaking of the Marchesa Luisa Casati with her lovely gowns and jewels, but I forgot to say then, that she is one of the finest horsewomen in Italy. I am sending you a little picture that shows her in her long leopard-skin coat, just as she rode out in her carriage to the meet before mounting.”
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Marchesa Luisa Casati in a fountain dress made of wires and lights by couturier Paul Poiret, at the Beaumont Ball held by the Count Etienne de Beaumont in Paris, 1924.
The Beaumont Ball in Paris 1924 (an event with a guest list so selective that Gabrielle Coco Chanel was excluded for being too ‘trade’), was a homage to Pablo Picasso and theCubists. The dress made entirely from wires and lights, it was too wide for the entrance to Beaumont’s ballroom: the artist Christian Bérard, who witnessed Marchesa Luisa Casati attempting to squeeze through the doorway, reported that she collapsed like a “smashed zeppelin”. (x)
De Beaumont’s fêtes reached an apex in 1924 with the ballet series Soirées de Paris, which took place at the Théâtre de la Cigale in Montmartre from May 17 to June 30, 1924. An homage to the review of the same name by Guillaume Apollinaire, the series included the scandalous ballet Mercure, which featured music composed by Erik Satie, sets and costumes designed by Pablo Picasso, and choreography devised by Léonide Massine. (x)
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