“Simplicity and elegance are never boring: you can never get enough of them, and one single detail manages to suggest that touch of gaiety only you have!” Mme Gres Madame… Continue reading Designer Diaries – Madame Grès and the Royals
Category: France
Designer Diaries – Queen Maud and Callot Soeurs
In 1895 four sisters, Marie Callot Gerber, Marthe Callot Bertrand, Regina Callot Tennyson-Chantrell and Joséphine Callot Crimont, opened a modest, but elegant, fashion design house in Paris. It was by… Continue reading Designer Diaries – Queen Maud and Callot Soeurs
Hofdame Bits and Bobs
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Jewel Journeys – Louis VII’s Emerald and Vase
The Social Life of Jewels When our dear Hofdames published my post about La Rusa with the title “Tiara Tales”, I remembered my old Medieval Art professor and the wonderful… Continue reading Jewel Journeys – Louis VII’s Emerald and Vase
Pocket Profile – Eleanor of Aquitaine
She was the Queen of France, the Queen of England, and the Duchess of Aquitaine, where she was a ruler in her own right. At the time, Aquitaine was one… Continue reading Pocket Profile – Eleanor of Aquitaine
