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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Lets Bring Back ... the Marchesa Casati

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


Lesley Blume's series Icons of Style, La marchesa Luisa Casati, High Priestess of Immodesty and Eccentricity! .... A true extrovert and muse - "I want to be a living work of art." 

Albino creatures roamed her Venetian Palazzo, she walked naked beneath a fur coat led by her diamond leashed cheetah.  Decades before Hugh Hephner's signature pajamas, she entertained in sheer golden ones herself. 

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