Jasmin & Olive custom couture hair adornments

We are pleased to announce that the inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Costume Institute will examine the career of the legendary couturier Charles Jam...es. Charles James: Beyond Fashion, on view from May 8 through August 10, 2014, will explore James’ design process focusing on his use of sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to construct revolutionary ball gowns and innovative tailoring that continue to influence designers today. http://met.org/1cFLPW8 Charles James Ball Gowns, 1948. Photograph by Cecil Beaton, Beaton / Vogue / Condé Nast Archive. Copyright Condé Nast.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her

Sent M’ahesa (Elsa von Carlberg) by Hanns Holdt, 1928. Sent M'Ahesa (* August 17 1883 in Riga as Else by Carlsberg , November 19th 1970 in Stockholm ) was a d...ancer expression of modernity, which until the 1920's was active in Germany. It was developed by Max Beckmann , Bernhard Hoetger , Dietz Edzard or Adolf coin portrays. Sent M'ahesa (Elsa von Carlberg [18931970]), whom audiences persisted in identifying with Egyptian dances (though her dance aesthetic included images from other ancient or exotic cultures). She performed all her dances solo. Born in Latvia, she went to Berlin in 1907 with her sister to study Egyptology but became so enchanted with ancient Egyptian art and artefacts that she decided to pursue her interest through dance rather than scholarship. At any rate, under the name of Sent M'ahesa she presented a program of Egyptian dances in Munich in December 1909 (Ettlinger). From then until the mid-1920's, she achieved fame for her exceptionally dramatic dances dominated by motifs from ancient Egyptian iconography. She was apparently an aristocrat who felt no need to establish a school in which to perpetuate her aesthetic. Her dances always functioned in relation to intricate, highly decorative costumes of her own design, so that it appeared as if she chose movements for their effect upon her costume. In her moon goddess (or Isis) dance, she attached large, diaphanous cloth wings to her black-sleeved arms. Via: http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view

Can not wait for this fabulous new piece to walk down the aisle on Monday! Here it is modeled.

take a peek! more to come...