Paris exhibit celebrates ‘first celebrity’ Sarah BernhardtPARIS (AP) – The pioneering French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923 – a status she owed not just to acting talent but her modern instinct for self-publicizing and using the press to brand her image. A century later, the Petit Palais […]
Phoenix Art Museum recalls when paper ruled pop fashionPHOENIX – Arizona audiences can explore paper garments from one of fashion’s most experimental and whimsical eras in Generation Paper: Fast Fashion of the 1960s at Phoenix Art Museum. Featuring work from 1966 through 1968 by designers and manufacturers such as Mars of Asheville, Scott Paper Company, The Disposables, Sterling Paper Fashions, Hallmark Inc., and […]
Hindman opens runway for Summer Fashion, Accessories sale July 15-16CHICAGO – Hindman will conduct their Summer Fashion and Accessories auction July 15-16, which features significant collections of Renée Fleming’s performance gowns, Hermés scarves, Karl Lagerfeld and Moschino originals and iconic Halston designs. The auction, which includes nearly 800 lots dating from the 18th Century to today, will begin at 10 a.m. Central time/11 a.m. […]
Houston museum hosts czarist Faberge collectionHOUSTON (AP) – It began 10 years ago while on a quest for French chandeliers. Instead, Dorothy McFerrin bought what she believed to be an Easter egg created by the famed Russian artisan Peter Carl Faberge. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, I have no light fixtures, but I have this Easter egg,’” Dorothy McFerrin said, […]