Juana Romani (1869-1924)
Portait De Jeune Fille
Oil on panel
1891
61 x 131 cm
(24.02” x 4’ 3.57”)
Public collection
Photographer Feriel Bendjama’s work “We, They and I” features 12 different images of the 31-year-old herself. Each photo shows her from the waist up in the same position and wearing a headscarf.
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I tried to express what many women feel about women’s magazines and the image of women in the media – absurd, artificial, a hanger to wear dresses and bags, only concerned about being skinny, beautiful. We don’t identify with this type of woman – we are much more. I used the impossible poses to represent this type of woman and to show how absurd it is in a real context…
[The] poses of the women are ridiculous – they seem dead, twisted, pulled. Why are men never put in these positions? They are always straight, successful, able and healthy.Yolanda Dominguez: Exposing the Artificiality of Women in Fashion
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In McQueen’s Words
“I don’t really get inspired [by specific women]… . It’s more in the minds of the women in the past, like Catherine the Great, or Marie Antoinette. People who were doomed. Joan of Arc or Colette. Iconic women.”
Purple Fashion, Summer 2007](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkfzhkzib51qegasto1_500.jpg)
In McQueen’s Words
“I don’t really get inspired [by specific women]… . It’s more in the minds of the women in the past, like Catherine the Great, or Marie Antoinette. People who were doomed. Joan of Arc or Colette. Iconic women.”
Purple Fashion, Summer 2007
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Christian Dior cocktail dress ca. 1955 via The Victoria & Albert Museum
Adrian “Gamboling lambs” dress ca. 1942 via The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Charles James dress ca. 1950 via The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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