historicaldress:Emile Pingat Evening dress, c. 1895Medium: Black silk velvetThis two-piecedress is a
historicaldress:Emile Pingat Evening dress, c. 1895Medium: Black silk velvetThis two-piecedress is a magnificent example of the haute couture in fin-de-siècle France. The New Eve envisioned by certain Decadents might have worn a dress like this, with its pattern of apples in black cut velvet. The iconography of forbidden fruit project suggests that Woman is a sinfully expensive and desirable object, and projects an image of the fashionable woman as externalized surface without organic inferiority. Like the dandy, the fashionable woman was a creature outside nature and beyond gender. -- source link
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