Posts Tagged: Ganna Walska
Secret Satan, 2020
Books to remember from a year you probably want to forget
Enemy of the average
Gathering strange flowers from Lotusland to Berlin
Places: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
The centenary of a Parisian instution and its most famous performance…
Places: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
The centenary of a Parisian instution and its most famous performance…
Summer Flowers
In writing about people who died long ago, frequently in obscurity, it’s heart-warming to know that their secret influence continues to erupt in unpredictable locations around the globe.
Summer Flowers
In writing about people who died long ago, frequently in obscurity, it’s heart-warming to know that their secret influence continues to erupt in unpredictable locations around the globe.
Stranger than fiction
I’m going to look more closely at the phenomenon of real-life individuals appearing in fiction in a feature called ‘Doubles’, holding up the original and the model, looking at the process by which flesh-and-blood becomes embedded in fiction.
Stranger than fiction
I’m going to look more closely at the phenomenon of real-life individuals appearing in fiction in a feature called ‘Doubles’, holding up the original and the model, looking at the process by which flesh-and-blood becomes embedded in fiction.
Dress-down Friday: Ganna Walska
Re-examining Ganna Walska’s modus operandi, it is striking how utterly contemporary her approach to celebrity was, a combination of slender accomplishments and gargantuan ambition, of fashion labels and scent endorsements, of big rocks and little dogs.
Dress-down Friday: Ganna Walska
Re-examining Ganna Walska’s modus operandi, it is striking how utterly contemporary her approach to celebrity was, a combination of slender accomplishments and gargantuan ambition, of fashion labels and scent endorsements, of big rocks and little dogs.
Hearse power
A high-speed hearse chase, a rooftop chess match and some surprisingly demure up-skirt action…
Hearse power
A high-speed hearse chase, a rooftop chess match and some surprisingly demure up-skirt action…
The countess in the afterlife
Today, curating one’s own image is a pursuit available to anyone with a Facebook account and a digital camera; this phenomenon arguably began with the Countess de Castiglione in Second Empire France.
The countess in the afterlife
Today, curating one’s own image is a pursuit available to anyone with a Facebook account and a digital camera; this phenomenon arguably began with the Countess de Castiglione in Second Empire France.
Mrs Kane
As reality TV producers know, something magic happens when colossal determination is unburdened by talent, and the woman who insisted on being called “Madame Walska” didn’t need top billing at La Scala to indulge her inner diva.
Mrs Kane
As reality TV producers know, something magic happens when colossal determination is unburdened by talent, and the woman who insisted on being called “Madame Walska” didn’t need top billing at La Scala to indulge her inner diva.
Strange Flowers 