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        1. "…Elisabeth Greffuhle's gowns are the books she never wrote, and the canvases she never painted… her ensembles are mirrors."
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        I am in an exhibit of her clothes, which are extraordinary. No pictures allowed though, sadly. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth,_Countess_Greffulhe
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      "The countess is remembered in the heavy folds of a velvet skirt and in the empty waist of a corset ravaged by time."
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    "They reflect the disappearing world and society she embodied."
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      "The fragile fabric of these gowns without their body creates a more intimate, vulnerable portrait."
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        "She-the fashionable woman-is only interested in fashion so that she does not need to follow it because she is the fashion." ~Elisabeth G
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          Rough translation of part of a letter from Proust "she is hard to judge, without doubt, because to judge is to compare".
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            She was a supporter of Marie Curie and various artists/literary figures. I am fascinated by how historical women wielded influence & power.
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              "You claimed… that a photograph fixed and halted a woman's beauty. But isn't that the beauty of it, to eternally record a radiant moment?"
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                On mirrors, "Countess Greffulhe appropriated the trend for herself in an original way, featuring two different poses."
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                  "By symbolically multiplying her presence, she created an imaginary space in which she evokes only herself."
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