‘Dandyism’ Category

  1. The Dandy by Charles Baudelaire

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    June 17, 2013 by Ville Raivio

    Charles Baudelaire is to literary dandyism what Brummell is to social dandyism. The latter lived the part, the former theorized …
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  2. Dandies and Dandies by Max Beerbohm

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    June 8, 2013 by Ville Raivio

    Max Beerbohm’s quintessential essay on dandyism was first published in 1896. Beerbohm chooses to go against the grain of French …
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  3. Beau Brummell’s Colour Principles

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    June 1, 2013 by Ville Raivio

    1. In the composition of colours for dress, there ought to be one predominating colour to which the rest should …
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  4. Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion Exhibition

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    May 31, 2013 by Ville Raivio


  5. Beau Brummell in Quote

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    May 10, 2013 by Ville Raivio

    ‘Civility, my good fellow, may truly be said to cost nothing: if it does not meet with a due return, …
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