Rachel Elspeth Gross

Fashion. History. Fashion History. • Head Fashion Historian at The Little Red Fashion Company. • History is Relevant.

[Rachel Elspeth Gross @ElspethGross]

@inLaurasWords Laura- I’m a fashion writer and historian. With an existing following of 40k+ across platforms. I have so many contacts. Check out my IG, you’ll see what I can offer: https://t.co/Y1f322b7I1

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@Samuel_Myles Omg

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@Samuel_Myles @Samuel_Myles you are the best 🌼

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@Samuel_Myles *swoons* (my @MaisonErnest shoes would match this PERFECTLY)

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@Samuel_Myles @FashConstellate Good question!!

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@Samuel_Myles @FashConstellate 👏👏👏

[Rachel Elspeth Gross @ElspethGross]

@FashConstellate I love that we can have this conversation with our community ♥️

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@FashConstellate I’m very proud of this piece, and of the work I get to do with @FashConstellate

[Fashion Constellate @FashConstellate]

For the #TransgenderDayofVisibility we want to share with our community the story of William Dorsey Swann, America’s first Drag Queen. No known photos of him exist—these are from the same era.
#WilliamDorseySwann #FashionConstellate #DayOfVisibility #WeSeeYou #TDOV

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We are so very sad to hear that Patrick Demarchelier has died. His contributions to the world of fashion are innumerable. He and his vision will be missed. We wish his family & loved ones peace in this difficult time.

#PatrickDemarchelier #FashionPhotography #YouWillBeMissedSir

[Rachel Elspeth Gross @ElspethGross]

Lucky died from cancer at 41, was buried at the same church as Dior and Fath, in the red satin gown which had been a “farewell present of Christian Dior when she left his employ.”
#LucieDaouphars #LuckyDaouphars #Muse

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“Marie-Laure had an illustrious maternal ancestry that was linked to the Marquis de Sade, and an unconventional grandmother, the Comtesse de Chevigné, who regularly received letters from Marcel Proust.”
#VicomtesseDeNoailles #MarieLaureDeNoailles

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Noailles died in 1970, of a pulmonary edema, at 68. Pierre Berge, when asked about the influences who formed YSL’s personal taste said: "Influences? Only one. Marie-Laure de Noailles."
#VicomtesseDeNoailles #MarieLaureDeNoailles

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From the start of their time together, Dior saw Lucky as “one of his greatest assets.” He draped directly on a model and said “that to design a dress on Lucky was to be granted a constant source of inspiration.”
#LucieDaouphars #LuckyDaouphars #Muse

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After a destitute start, Lucky acquired “worldwide fame by flying to the far corners of the world to show French fashions…Her personal qualities kept her inside and kept her moving upward.”
#LucieDaouphars #LuckyDaouphars #Muse

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@J_Sandford So very, very excited for this. 🖤

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As Noailles got older, she grew more and more eccentric, “abandoning her Chanel suits and bags for voluminous, market-bought peasant skirts and wicker baskets” in her later years.
#VicomtesseDeNoailles #MarieLaureDeNoailles

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“The queen of café society” was friends included almost every important artist of the 20th century, people like Buñuel, Diaghilev, Man Ray, Giacometti,and Dalí. She modeled, mused,& purchased.
#VicomtesseDeNoailles #MarieLaureDeNoailles

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At 7 Noailles grandfather died and “she inherited one of the greatest fortunes in Europe.” Mom was a recluse a la Grey Gardens, but with a little bit more Baudelaire and dinner guests.
#VicomtesseDeNoailles #MarieLaureDeNoailles