August 8, 2010
von Melanie Grundmann
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On demandait à quelqu’un pourquoi le boulevard qui commence au coin de la rue de la Chaussée-d’Antin et va mourir au cap de la Grange-Batelière se nomme boulevard des Italiens : «C’est sans doute, répondit-il, parce que le boulevard des … Weiterlesen
Juli 11, 2010
von Melanie Grundmann
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But after all, the only clubs where any thing like fellowship exists are the dandy ones of Crockford’s, White’s, and the Travellers; the glittering arid particles of those useless sandbanks, being indurated into something resembling substance only by their want … Weiterlesen
Juli 3, 2010
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Let us make our way through this crowd of idlers and cross the Boulevard to Tortoni’s. It was here that Isabelle the flowergirl of the Jockey Club first made her appearance to the Parisian dandy. She was patronised by ces … Weiterlesen
Februar 27, 2010
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We are accused of severity in our allusion to this Long’s or Clarendon of the fashionable world of Paris. We exonerate ourselves by translating a page or two from a French work on Parisian manners, which has lately excited a … Weiterlesen
Februar 8, 2010
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So many centuries have elapsed since Solomon informed the human kind there was ‘a time for all things,’ , that the axiom seems hardly worth repeating. Yet, which of us fails to rehearse it, on occasion of all the contre-temps … Weiterlesen
Januar 30, 2010
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Das Opernhaus Zürich sucht Statisten für “Salomé”. Wer glaubt, den Dandy mimen zu können oder gar eines der seltenen Exemplare zu sein, sollte zum Casting am 09. Februar, 18:30h, auf der Studiobühne (Eingang über Pforte, Falkenstrasse 1). Tweet
Januar 6, 2010
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Am 15. Januar eröffnet im spanischen Santiago de Compostela die Ausstellung “Sur le dandysme aujourd’hui” (Der Dandysmus von heute). Das Centro Galego de Arte Contemporà¡neo will die Konzepte und Strategien des Dandysmus sowie die ikonographischen und thematischen Einflüsse der Dandy-Literatur … Weiterlesen
Dezember 30, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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A French nobleman of distinquished taste, has recently had his drawing-room fitted up and furnished in the following style. The apartment is hung with grey watered paper, with an amaranth bordering, the tints corresponding with those of the silk which … Weiterlesen
Dezember 21, 2009
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In the days of Dandyism (an epoch so completely obsolete, that it might serve instead of ‘In the time of King Arthur,’ to date the commencement of a fairy tale !), it was an indispensable evidence of exclusivism, for even … Weiterlesen
November 28, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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On entering Grignon’s a few weeks ago, I was surprised by the very novel spectacle of the ‘Carte en deuil.’ I looked eagerly round the room for some one to solve this enigma, when I espied, in a corner, reading … Weiterlesen