Komend najaar organiseert Stadsmuseum Harderwijk de tentoonstelling MADAMADAM met schilderijen van de Amsterdamse kunstenaar Jitske Schols (geb. 1969, Rotterdam). Schols is gefascineerd door het verstrijken van de tijd. Deze belangstelling begon toen zij een boek las over de voormalige bewoners van het huis waarin ze zelf opgroeide. Het zette haar …
Harry and Caresse obtained a 20-year lease on a mill outside of Paris in the grounds of the Château d’ Ermenonville, France, which belonged to their friend Armand de la Rochefoucauld, for 2,200 dollar gold pieces (about $33,222 today). They named it “Le Moulin du Soleil” (“The Mill of the …
Caresse and Harry Crosby lived a life of utter dissolution off Harry’s inheritance which, when it ran out, had to be supplemented by telegrams to his banker father such as the infamous, “PLEASE SELL 10,000 WORTH OF STOCK. WE HAVE DECIDED TO LIVE A MAD AND EXTRAVAGANT LIFE”. They madly loved …
In 1910, at age 19, Polly (a.k.a. Mary Phelps Jacob a.k.a. Caresse Crosby was preparing to attend yet another débutante ball one evening. As was customary, she put on a corset stiffened with whalebone and a restrictive, tight corset cover that flattened and jammed her large breasts together into a …
