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Cara Delevingne and Tutankhamun on the Throne, 1323 BC, from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
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Emily Blunt and a Golden Crown of the Ptolemaic Era, 2nd Century BC, from the Brooklyn Museum
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Lupita Nyong'o and Predynastic Egyptian Combs of 3800 BC, with a Ceramic Dress of 2550 BC from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Salma Hayek and a Portrait from a Romano-Egyptian Mummy of the 1st Century AD in the Metropolitan Museum
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Ezra Miller and the Terracotta Amulet with the Eye of Horus
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Kim Kardashian and the Predynastic Female Figure of 3500 BC from the Brooklyn Museum
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Egyptologist Margaret Maitland pairs Met Gala looks with ancient artefacts
Egyptologist and Senior Curator of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Mediterranean at National Museums Scotland Dr Margaret Maitland has put together a wildly cool selection of Met Gala looks and the artefacts of antiquity associated with them. For example, Lady Gaga and the dancing girls from the Tomb of Nebamun,
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Alice Vanderbilt’s “Electric Light” dress and the Vanderbilt lady in “The Twelve Chairs”
The Twelve Chairs mentions a haughty Vanderbilt lady from a French fashion magazine. “The glossy photograph showed the daughter of the American billionaire Vanderbilt in an evening gown. There were furs and feathers, silk and pearls, a cut of extraordinary lightness and a dizzying coiffure.” In other photographs the Vanderbilt
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In late 1782 Catherine the Great issued two "fashion" decrees at once, banning French toilettes at court
In late 1782 Catherine the Great issued two "fashion" decrees at once, banning French toilettes at court. The decrees of 23 October and 6 November 1782 limited the width of skirts and the height of the ornaments on gowns, which could no longer exceed two vershoks. Despite its
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The Slippers of Eugénie, the Last Empress of the French and Arbiter of Fashion across All Europe
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Strange as it may seem, the subjects of these vulgar erotic playing cards were borrowed from genuine antique pottery
Strange as it may seem, the subjects of these vulgar erotic playing cards were borrowed from genuine antique pottery. So, too, was a scene from Caligula