Gentle Reader -
There are quite a few examples of idealized fashion in Italian Renaissance painting. But nowadays, we do not recognize the how startling these pictures might have been to those of the time.
Consider this: in a time when only court fashions were depicted elsewhere in Europe (although there is the rich merchant type), what message these paintings of bourgeois style must have caused.
Sumptuary laws, anyone? Breaking of social codes, perhaps?
Just a passing thought as we are in the transitional weeks between showing Spring-Summer 2011 and designing Fall-Winter 2010-2011.
- AP
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