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Episode 12: Balls & Baubles – Jewellery at the Beistegui, Capote and Rothschild Costume Balls

Episode 12: Balls & Baubles – Jewellery at the Beistegui, Capote and Rothschild Costume Balls

FromDress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up


Episode 12: Balls & Baubles – Jewellery at the Beistegui, Capote and Rothschild Costume Balls

FromDress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

ratings:
Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Dec 20, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this Season’s finale, Lucy and Ben talk with Levi Higgs about the jewellery worn at three of the twentieth-century’s most lavish and exclusive costume balls. Following Dress: Fancy’s patron saint, Cecil Beaton, who attended each of these events, this episode examines the significance of haute joaillerie and costume jewellery worn by the likes of Daisy Fellowes, Gloria Guiness and the inimitable Elizabeth Taylor.   Links Nick Foulkes, Bals: Legendary Balls of the Twentieth Century (2011) Nick Foulkes, ‘Don Carlos de Beistegui’, The Rake (March 2016): https://therake.com/stories/icons/don-carlos-de-beistegui/  Deborah Davis, Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball (2006). Guy Trebay, ’50 Years Ago, Truman Capote Hosted the Best Party Ever’, The New York Times (21 November 2016): https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/fashion/black-and-white-ball-anniversary-truman-capote.html  Kenzie Bryant, ‘The Most Lavish High-Society Parties of the Last Half-Century’, Vanity Fair (24 November 2016): https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2016/11/most-lavish-parties-black-and-white-surrealist-proust-ball  Patricia Corbett, Verdura: The life and work of a master jeweler (2002) Cecil Beaton: A Retrospective, ed. David Mellor (1986). Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewellery (2002). Kenneth Jay Lane, Faking It (1996).
Released:
Dec 20, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

A smart, playful and interrogative take on contemporary fashion and its context – weaving together sartorial and social history to tell powerful, surprising stories of identity. Hosted by Lucy Clayton together with a selection of special guests including designers, artists, writers, activists, academics and of course, the dresser uppers themselves, this show explores the way we dress in all its creative, sequinned and chaotic glory.