Adolph de Meyer (1 September 1868 – 6 January 1946)
Adolf de Meyer, ca. 1904 photo by Clarence Hudson White (1871-1925)
Adolph von Menzel (8 December 1815 –9 February 1905)
Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (December 8, 1815 – February 9, 1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered…
Adrian Adolph Greenburg (Costume Designer, March 3, 1903 – September 13, 1959)
Adrian Adolph Greenburg (March 3, 1903 – September 13, 1959), widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and hundreds of…
Adriana Abascal(Born 31 October 1970)
Adriana Abascal López-Cisneros (born October 31, 1970) is a Mexican-born model, who has appeared on the covers of magazines including Elle, Vogue , Marie Claire , Hola! and Vanity Fair , she is also…
Adriana Sofía Ugarte (Born 17 January 1985)
Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal (born 17 January 1985) is a Spanish actress. She is known for her leading roles on television series La Señora (2008-2010) and El tiempo entre costuras (2013-2014). Ugarte…
Agnès Sorel (1422 – 9 February 1450), the first officially recognized royal mistress of a French king, the woman who invented off-shoulder neckline
Portrait d'Agnès Sorel d'après Jean Fouquet, collection particulière.
Aimee De Heeren(3 August 1903 – 13 September 2006)
Aimée de Heeren, born Aimée Soto-Maior de Sá or Aimée de Sotomayor (3 August 1903 – 13 September 2006) was a Brazilian socialite and secret service agent keeping Getulio Vargas away from a WW2…
Alain Delon (8 November 1935-18 August 2024)
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is known as one of Europe's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols from the 1960s and 1970s. He…
Albert Joseph Moore (4 September 1841 – 25 September 1893)
Albert Joseph Moore (4 September 1841 – 25 September 1893) was an English painter, known for his depictions of languorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world.
Alessandro Preziosi (Born 19 April 1973, Napoli Italy)
2003-2004: TV series Elisa di Rivombrosa as Fabrizio Ristori.
Alessandro Tersigni (Born 11 October 1979)
Alessandro Tersigni (born 11 October 1979) is an Italian actor and television personality, best known internationally for playing Vittorio Conti, the ambitious department-store director at the heart of Rai 1's long-running soap opera Il Paradiso delle Signore, a role he held from the show's premiere in 2015 through its eighth season in 2024.
Alexander Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999)
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999) was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions…
Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823-23 January 1889)
Alexandre Cabanel, Autoportrait (1852), Montpellier, musée Fabre.
Alexey Vyacheslavovich Brodovitch/Brodovich(1 May 1898 – 15 April 1971)
Alexey Vyacheslavovich Brodovitch/Brodovich(1898 – April 15, 1971) was an Russian-born American photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine…
Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé(4 February 1922 – 8 July 2004) the man who restored Hotel Lambert in Paris
Oskar Dieter Alex von Rosenberg-Redé, 3rd Baron von Rosenberg-Redé (4 February 1922 – 8 July 2004), also known as Alexis, Baron de Redé, was a prominent French banker, aristocrat, aesthete,…
Alfred Stevens(11 May 1823 – 24 August 1906)
Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (11 May 1823 – 24 August 1906) was a Belgian painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women. After gaining attention early in his career with a social realist…
Alina Cojocaru (27 May 1981)
Alina Cojocaru (born 27 May 1981) is a Romanian ballet dancer. As of November 2013, she is a principal dancer with the English National Ballet.
Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto(28 July, 1945)
Born in the castle of Grazzano Visconti of Vigolzone, Piacenza, Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto is the daughter of Adolfo Caracciolo, a Neapolitan noble, and of Anna Visconti di Modrone, a family of…
Alphonse Mucha(24 July 1860 - 14 July 1939)
Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best…
Amaia Salamanca Urízar (born 28 March 1986)
Amaia Salamanca Urízar (Coslada, Madrid, 28 de marzo de 1986) es una actriz y modelo española conocida por su participación en series como Sin tetas no hay paraíso , Gran Hotel o SMS . También ha…
Amal Clooney (born Amal Ramzi Alamuddin; 3 February 1978)
Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; Arabic: أمل علم الدين; born 3 February 1978) in Lebanon is a British-Lebanese barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in international law and human rights.
André Gide(22 November 1869-19 February 1951)
André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist…
Angelica Kauffmann (30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807)
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.…
Angie Chiu(born 15 November 1954)
Angie Chiu (Chinese: 趙雅芝; pinyin: Zhào Yǎzhī; born 15 November 1954) is a Hong Kong actress, and was the third runner up in the 1973 Miss Hong Kong pageant.
Anna Pavlova (12 February 1881 – 23 January 1931)
Anne Gunning (1929–January 1990)
Born Helen Anne Gunning Parker in Southern Rhodesia, her father was a coffee planter with a distant link to famed eighteenth-century society beauties Maria and Elizabeth Gunning. She was raised by…
Anne Sainte Marie
Anne Saint Marie, Harpers Bazaar, May 1956, photo by Lillian Bassman
Anne Vallayer-Coster (21 December 1744 - 28 February 1818)
Anne Vallayer-Coster (21 December 1744 – 28 February 1818) was a French painter best known for her still lifes. In 1770, at twenty-six, she was elected to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, becoming one of only four women...
Anouk Aimée (27 April 1932)
you can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anthony Andrews (Born 12 January 1948)
Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited (1981), for which he won Golden Globe and BAFTA TV…
Antonio Canova (1 November 1757-13 October 1822)
Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his artwork was…
Antonio Vivaldi (4 March 1678-28 July 1741)
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, he is…
Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929-20 January 1993)
Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film…
Augusta Bernard(French fashion designer, 12 September 1886–7 May 1946)
Augusta Bernard, also Augustabernard, (1886–1946) was a French fashion designer who gained recognition for creating long, neoclassical evening dresses during the early 1930s. She ran a salon in Rue…
Babe Paley (5 July 1915 – 6 July 1978)
Barbara Goalen (1 January 1921 – 16 June 2002)
Barbara Goalen (1 January 1921 – 16 June 2002) was a British model who came to international prominence between 1945 and 1954, then gave up her career at the height of her success. Described as "the…
Barbara Mullen the American model
Barbara Mullen, Le Pavillon, New York, for Harper’s Bazaar. photo by Lillian Bassman, 1950
Baron George Hoyningen-Huene(September 4, 1900 – September 12, 1968)
Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (September 4, 1900 – September 12, 1968) was a fashion photographer of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in the Russian Empire to Baltic German and American parents and…
Baroness Fiona Campbell-Walter Von Thyssen (25 June 1932)
Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter, formerly Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, (born 25 June 1932) is a New Zealand-born British model. She had a successful career in the 1950s,…
Beau Brummell Beau Brummell (born George Bryan Brummell; 7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840)
Bernard Arnault (born Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault; 5 March 1949 )
Bettina Graziani/Simone Micheline Bodin (8 May 1925 – 2 March 2015)
Bettnia Graziani in dress and jacket by Christian Dior from his Autumn/Winter Collection of 1952, Photo Frances McLaughlin-Gill
Bonnie Cashin(costume and fashion designer, September 28, 1908 – February 3, 2000)
Bonnie Cashin (September 28, 1908 – February 3, 2000) was an American designer, she is considered to be one of the pioneering designers of American sportswear . She created innovative, uncomplicated…
Brigitte Bardot (28 September 1934)
Brigitte Bardot (également connue sous les initiales de « BB »), née le 28 septembre 1934 à Paris, est une actrice de cinéma, mannequin, chanteuse et militante des droits des animaux française.
Capucine/Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre (6 January 1928 – 17 March 1990)
Capucine (6 January 1928 – 17 March 1990) was a French fashion model and actress known for her comedic roles in The Pink Panther (1963) and What's New Pussycat? (1965). She appeared in 36 films and…
Carmen Dell'Orefice (born June 3, 1931)
Carmen Dell'Orefice was born in New York City to parents of Italian and Hungarian descent. Her parents had an unstable relationship characterized by frequent break ups and reconciliations.…
Carole Bouquet(18 August 1957)
Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957) is a French actress and fashion model, who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1977. In 1990, she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress for her role…
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies.
Carolina Otero, La Bella Otero(4 November 1869-12 April 1965)
Agustina del Carmen Otero Iglesias (4 November 1868 – 10 April 1965), better known as Carolina Otero or La Belle Otero, was a Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan. She had a reputation for great…
Carolyn Besette (7 January 1966-16 July 1999)
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy (January 7, 1966 – July 16, 1999) was a publicist for Calvin Klein and the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. After her marriage, Bessette-Kennedy's relationship with her…
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; 18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986)
Catharina "Toto" Koopman (28 October 1908 – 27 August 1991)
Toto Koopman wearing Augusta Bernard dress, Vogue, September, 1933, photo by Hoyningen-Huene
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Dorléac, dite Catherine Deneuve, est une actrice française née le 22 octobre 1943 à Paris.
Cecil Beaton (14 January 1904-18 January 1980)
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Oscar–winning stage and costume…
Charlène, Princess of Monaco (Charlene Lynette Wittstock, born 25 January 1978)
Charlène, Princess of Monaco is a former South African Olympic swimmer and currently wife of Prince Albert II of Monaco.
Charles Boyer
Fils unique, Charles Boyer naît prématurément le 28 août 1899, boulevard Labernade à Figeac. Son père, Maurice Boyer tient un commerce familial de moissonneuses-batteuses, fourneaux de cuisine et…
Charles James (18 July 1906- 23 September 1978)
Charles Wilson Brega James (18 July 1906 – 23 September 1978) was an English-American fashion designer. He is best known for his ballgowns and highly structured aesthetic. James is one of the most…
Christian Dior (21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957)
Christine Kaufmann (11 January 1945 – 28 March 2017)
Christine Maria Kaufmann (11 January 1945 – 28 March 2017) was a German-Austrian actress, author, and businesswoman. The daughter of a German father and a French mother, she won the Golden Globe…
Claire McCardell (May 24, 1905 – March 22, 1958)
Claire McCardell c. 1950. Photo courtesy of Julie Eilber. All rights reserved
Clark Gable(February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960)
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He had roles in more than 60 motion pictures in multiple genres…
Cléo de Mérode(27 September 1875-17 October 1966)
Postcard with photo of Cléo de Mérode (1901), by Reutlinger.
Coco Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971)
Consuelo Vanderbilt(2 March 1877 – 6 December 1964)
Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; 2 March 1877 – 6 December 1964) was a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt…
Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre (21 January 1895 – 24 March 1972)
Danielle Darrieux(1 May 1917-17 October 2017)
Danielle Darrieux, née le 1er mai 1917 à Bordeaux (Gironde) et morte le 17 octobre 2017 à Bois-le-Roi dans l’Eure, est une actrice et chanteuse française.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882)
Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti c. 1871, by George Frederic Watts
David Lean Cbe
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most influential directors of all time, Lean directed…
David Niven(1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983)
James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was an English actor, memoirist and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Major Pollock in Separate Tables…
David Olgilvy(23 June 1911- 21 July 1999)
David Mackenzie Ogilvy CBE (23 June 1911 – 21 July 1999) was a British advertising tycoon, founder of Ogilvy & Mather, and known as the "Father of Advertising". Trained at the Gallup research…
Deborah Kerr(30 September 1921-16 October 2007)
Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a Scottish film, theatre, and television actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and holds the…
Diana Mitford (17 June 1910-11 August 2003)
Diana Mitford was one of the Mitford sisters born in the British upper class Mitford family.
Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales
chest / poitrine / busto / pechos / b rustumfang / バスト / 胸围：
Diane von Fürstenberg(31 December, 1946)
Diane von Fürstenberg, formerly Princess Diane of Fürstenberg (German: Diane Prinzessin zu Fürstenberg; born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin; December 31, 1946), is a Belgian fashion designer best known…
Dirk Bogarde
Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (28 March 1921 - 8 May 1999), known professionally as Dirk Bogarde, was an English actor and writer. Initially a matinée idol in films such as…
Dolores del Río(3 August 1905-11 April 1983)
Dolores Asúnsolo López Negrete (Victoria de Durango, 3 de agosto de 1904 - Newport Beach, California, 11 de abril de 1983), conocida profesionalmente como Dolores del Río, fue una actriz de cine,…
Dolores Guiness (31 July 1936 – 20 January 2012)
Dolores Guiness was a German born "Freiin" (Baroness), socialite, fashion icon and jet set member of the 1950s and 1960s. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1970. Her…
Don Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento (20 November 1914 – 29 November 1992), Italian designer, Prince of Print
Don Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento (20 November 1914 – 29 November 1992) was an Italian fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a…
Donna Reed (27 January 1921 – 14 January 1986)
Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger; January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986) was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films. She is well…
Dorian Leigh (April 23, 1917 – July 7, 2008)
Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker (April 23, 1917 – July 7, 2008), known professionally as Dorian Leigh, was an American model and one of the earliest modeling icons of the fashion industry. She is…
Doris Clare Zinkeisen (31 July 1898 – 3 January 1991)
Doris Zinkeisen was born in Clynder House in Rosneath, Argyll, Scotland. her father Victor Zinkeisen was a timber merchant and amateur artist from Glasgo whose family were originally from Bohemia and…
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.(9 December 1909-7 May 2000)
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., KBE, DSC (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000), was an American actor and producer, and a decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best known for starring in such films…
Dovima (11 December 1927-3 May 1990)
Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of a Polish-American policeman and his Irish-born wife. She contracted rheumatic fever when she was a small girl, and spent…
Edith Head(28 October 1897-24 October 1981)
“You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.”
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class…
Edward Jean Steichen (27 March 1879 – 25 March 1973)
Edward Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form. His photographs appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work more often than anyone else during its…
Edward Molyneux(5 September 1891 – 23 March 1974)
Edward Molyneux (1891–1974), photographed by James Abbe, Paris, 1922
Edward Stevenson (13 May 1906-2 December 1968)
Edward Stevenson was American costume designer with over 200 films and television designing credits and had won one Academy Award for his design. The film Citizen Kane (1941) and It`s a wonderful…
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), Madame Le Brun
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Le Brun, was a French portrait painter in the late 18th century.
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor Dbe
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was an English-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s…
Emma, lady Hamilton(26 April 1765 - 15 January 1815)
Emma Hamilton as a young girl (aged seventeen) c. 1782, by George Romney
Emmanuelle Beart(Born 14 August 1963)
Actress, activist, and for four decades the face French cinema turned to when a story needed to be beautiful and dangerous at the same time.
Ennio Morricone(10 November 1928-6 July 2020)
Ennio Morricone was b orn in Rome on Nov. 10, 1928, and started composing film music in his early 30s, Among his best-known compositions are those for Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly…
Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897-4 July 1969)
Erwin Blumenfeld (geboren 26. Januar 1897 in Berlin; gestorben 4. Juli 1969 in Rom) war ein Fotograf deutsch-jüdischer Herkunft und in den 1940er und 1950er Jahren einer der weltweit gefragtesten…
Eva Marie Saint
She received Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for A Hatful of Rain (1957) and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990).
Evelyn Tripp (1927-1995)
Evelyn Tripp was born in a small farm in Flat River, Missouri, in 1927, the daughter of a lead miner.
Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, Queen of the Belgians(11 June 1928 – 5 December 2014)
Doña Fabiola Fernanda María-de-las-Victoria Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón (11 June 1928 – 5 December 2014) was Queen of the Belgians from her marriage to King Baudouin in 1960 until his death in…
Felipe VI, King of Spain(born 30 January 1968)
Felipe VI or Philip VI (Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is the King of Spain. Felipe VI speaks Spanish, Catalan, French, English and some…
Felix Mendelssohn (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847)
Portrait of Mendelssohn by the English miniaturist James Warren Childe, 1839
Franca Florio (27 December 1873 – 10 November 1950)
Portrait of Franca Florio(27 December 1873 – 10 November 1950), oil on canvas, 1901, by Giovanni Boldini
Frances McLaughlin-Gill (September 22,1919-October 23, 2014)
Tina Campbell at the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 1952, © Frances McLaughlin-Gill
Francis bernard dicksee(27 November 1853-17 October 1928)
Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee (or Frank Bernard Dicksee) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also…
François Boucher(30 September 1703-30 May 1770)
Gustaf Lundberg, Portrait de François Boucher (1741), pastel, Paris, musée du Louvre.
François Ozon(born 15 November 1967)
François Ozon (born 15 November 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality.
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; 10 May 1899 – 22 June 1987)
His stage and subsequent film and television careers spanned a total of 76 years. He starred in more than 10 Broadway and West End musicals, made 31 musical films, four television specials, and…
Gabriele D'anunnzio(22 March 1863 - 1 March 1938)
General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso OMS CMG MVM (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), sometimes spelled d'Annunzio, was an Italian poet, playwright, and journalist and soldier during World…
Galina Ulanova (8 January 1919 – 21 March 1998)
"She is the genius of Russian ballet, its elusive soul, its inspired poetry. Ulanova imparts to her interpretation of classical roles a depth of expression unheard of in twentieth century ballet."
Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961)
Cooper's career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in 84 feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the golden age…
Gene Tierney
Gene Eliza Tierney (19 November 1920 – 6 November 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed for her great beauty, she became established as a leading lady.Tierney was best known for…
Georg Philipp Telemann (24 March 1681 – 25 June 1767)
Hand-colored aquatint of Georg Philipp Telemann by Valentin Daniel Preisler, after a lost painting by Louis Michael Schneider, 1750
George Romney(26 December 1734-15 November 1802)
George Romney (26 December [O.S. 15 December] 1734 – 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures –…
Georges Dambier (4 April 1925-May 2011)
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Georges Eugène Haussmann(27 March 1809-11 January 1891)
Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann (27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), was a French official who served as prefect of Seine (1853–1870), chosen by Emperor Napoleon III to…
Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire(7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806)
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1775, The Devonshire Collection.
Gérard Philipe(4 December 1922-25 November 1959)
Gérard Albert Philip, dit Gérard Philipe, né le 4 décembre 1922 à Cannes et mort le 25 novembre 1959 à Paris, est un acteur français. Actif au théâtre comme au cinéma, il fut en France, jusqu'à sa…
Gian Lorenzo Bernini Le Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is an Italian artist, painter, sculptor, architector, inventor, he is credited to have created the Baroque style of sculpture.
Giovanni Boldini
Moving to London, Boldini attained success as a portraitist. He completed portraits of premier members of society including Lady Holland and the Duchess of Westminster. From 1872 he lived in Paris,…
Giulio Berruti(born 27 September 1984)
Giulio Berruti (born 27 September 1984) is an Italian actor, known for his roles in Monte Carlo (2011), Walking on Sunshine (2014), and Gabriel's Inferno (2020).
Gleb Derujinsky (19 March 1925 – 9 June 2011)
Gleb Derujinsky was born in New York City in 1925, and named after his father Gleb W. Derujinsky, an immigrant of Russian nobility who became a successful sculptor. The Derujinsky family served the…
Gloria Vanderbilt (20 February 1924-17 June 2019)
Gloria Vanderbilt (with full name Gloria Laura Madeleine Sophie Vanderbilt) was born in New York on 20 February 1924, into the wealthiest family in America, whose Patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt…
Gordon Parks(November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006)
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, composer, writer, poet and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary…
Grace Kelly, Princess Monaco
The name grace suits her perfectly, it not only gives her the aura of a star but also the fate of a cinderella, even though the fair tale ended in untimely tragedy.
Gregory Peck(April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003)
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck…
Greta Garbo(18 September 1905-15 April 1990)
Greta Garbo(born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses of all time, Garbo was known for her…
Guido Reni
Reni è nato a Bologna, nell'attuale Palazzo Ariosti in via San Felice, da Daniele, musicista e insegnante della Cappella di San Petronio.
Guy Laroche(16 July 1921-17 February 1989)
Guy Laroche (16 July 1921 – 17 February 1989) was a French fashion designer and founder of the eponymous company.
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; 9 September or 9 November 1914– 19 January 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress, inventor, and film producer. She appeared in 30 films over a…
Helen Rose(February 2, 1904 – November 9, 1985)
Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 – November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Henriette Negrin Fortuny(4 October 1877-1965)
Portrait of Madame Henriette Fortuny by Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1915).
Henry Clarke(c. 1918 – April 26, 1996), American photographer
Henry Clarke (c. 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American fashion photographer, known particularly for his work for Vogue .
Henry James OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916)
Henry James OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be…
Herminia Borrell(1897-1971)
Herminia Elena Josefa Rodríguez-Borrell Feijoo was born in Camariñas, La Coruña, Galicia, Spain in 1897, in a family which got wealthy from sugar business in Cuba, with several properties in Galicia.
Horst P. Horst(14 August 1906-19 Novemeber 1999)
Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann (Aka. Horst P. Horst) was born on 14 August 1906 in Weißenfels-an-der-Saale, Germany in a well-to-do protestant family.
Howard Greer (16 April 1896-7 April 1974)
Howard Greer was a Hollywood fashion designer and a costume designer in the Golden Age of American cinema, couturier for the privileged customers as well as fashion designer for mass markets.
Hubert de Givenchy
“You must, if it’s possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It’s part of you, of yourself.”
Ida Rubinstein (5 October 1883 – 20 September 1960)
Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (5 October 1883 – 20 September 1960) was a Russian dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure. She performed with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1911 and then…
Iman the longest neck in the world
Iman Abdulmajid (born Zara Mohamed Abdulmajid; Somali: Zara Maxamed Cabdulmajiid; 25 July 1955) is a Somali-American fashion model, actress and entrepreneur. A muse of designers Gianni Versace,…
Inès de La Fressange(11 August 1957)
Inès Marie Lætitia Églantine Isabelle de Seignard de La Fressange (born 11 August 1957), is a French model, aristocrat, style icon, fashion designer and perfumer. She was named to the International…
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915-29 August 1982)
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.With a career spanning five decades, she…
Irene Dunne(20 December 1898-4 September 1990)
Irene Dunne DHS (born Irene Marie Dunn) was an American actress and singer who appeared in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her comedic roles, though she performed in…
Irene Lentz
Irene Maud Lentz (December 8, 1901 – November 15, 1962), also known mononymously and professionally as Irene, was an American fashion designer and costume designer. Her work as a clothing designer…
Irving Penn
rving Penn (June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and…
Isabella Rosellini(born 18 June 1952)
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian-American actress, author, philanthropist, and former model. The daughter of the Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and the…
Isadora Duncan (26 May 1877 or 27 May 1878 – 14 September 1927)
Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American dancer who performed to great acclaim throughout Europe. Born and raised in California, she lived and danced…
Ivor Novello (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951)
Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.
Jacqueline Bisset
Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset LdH (born 13 September 1944) is an English actress, and s he speaks English, French, and Italian. She began her film career in 1965 and first came to prominence in…
Jacques Doucet(19 February 1853-30 October 1929)
Jacques Doucet (19 February 1853–30 October 1929) was a French fashion designer and art collector. He is known for his elegant dresses, made with flimsy translucent materials in superimposing pastel…
Jacques Fath(6 September 1912-13 November 1954)
Jacques Fath (6 September 1912 in Maisons-Laffitte, France – 13 November 1954 in Paris, France) was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute…
James Tissot (15 October 1836-8 August 1902)
James Tissot (c. 1867-68), by Edgar Degas. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE (14 December 1946-16 July 2023)
Jane Mallory Birkin was born on 14 December 1946, in Marylebone, London. Her mother, Judy Campbell, was an English actress, best known for her work on stage, and muse of Noel Coward . Her father,…
Jane Seymour OBE (actress, born 15 February 1951)
Jane Seymour OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951) is an English actress. After making her screen debut as an uncredited extra in the 1969 musical comedy Oh! What a…
Jayne Wrightsman (21 October 1919-20 April 2019)
Jayne Wrightsman is an American art collector, philanthropist, and the widow of Charles B. Wrightsman, an American oil executive who passed away in 1986.
Jean Dessès (6 August 1904 – 2 August 1970)
Jean Dessès, né Jean Dimitre Virginie, est un couturier, né de parents grecs à Alexandrie, en Égypte, le 6 août 1904 et mort à Athènes le 2 août 1970.
Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979)
Seberg appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan , Bonjour Tristesse , Lilith , The Mouse That Roared , Breathless , Moment to Moment , A Fine Madness , Paint Your Wagon ,…
Jean Louis Berthault (costume designer, 5 October 1907 in Paris, France – 20 April 1997)
Jean Louis (born Jean Louis Berthault; 5 October 1907 in Paris, France – 20 April 1997 in Palm Springs, California) was a French-born, Hollywood costume designer and an Academy Award winner for Best…
Jean Patou(27 September 1887 - 8 March 1936)
Jean Patou (27 septembre 1887 à Paris - 8 mars 1936 à Paris) est un couturier et fabricant de parfums français, créateur de la maison de couture et de parfums qui porte son nom.
Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000)
Elizabeth Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American film actress. She is known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second wife of…
Jean Pierre Aumont(5 January 1911-30 January 2001)
Jean-Pierre Aumont (born Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons; 5 January 1911 – 30 January 2001) was a French actor, and holder of the Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre for his World War II military…
Jean-Antoine Houdon(25 March 1741 – 15 July 1828)
Jean-Antoine Houdon (25 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres(28 August 1780-14 January 1876)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of…
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier(28 August 1921-28 May 2004)
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, né le 28 août 1921 à Paris et mort le à Grasse, est un journaliste et reporter-photographe français.
Jeanne Paquin(23 June 1869-28 August 1936)
Jeanne Paquin(23 June 1869–28 August 1936) was a leading French fashion designer, known for her resolutely modern and innovative designs. She was the first major female couturier and one of the…
Joan Fontaine (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013)
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine , was a British-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood…
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida ( 27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923)
Joaquín Sorolla Bastida (Valencia, 27 de febrero de 1863 - Cercedilla, 10 de agosto de 1923) fue un pintor español. Artista prolífico, dejó más de 2200 obras catalogadas. Su obra madura ha sido…
Johannes Vermeer(October 1632 – December 1675)
Detail of the painting The Procuress (c. 1656), believed to be a self portrait by Vermeer.
John Everett Millais(8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896)
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy…
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as JFK Jr., was an American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher. He was a son of the 35th President of the…
John French(1 March 1907–21 July 1966)English photographer
(Leonard) John French (1 March 1907–21 July 1966) was an English fashion and portrait photographer.
John Rawlings(Photographer, 1912-1970)
John Rawlings (1912-1970) was a Condé Nast Publications fashion photographer from the 1930s through the 1960s. Rawlings worked for Vogu e and Conde Nast for over four decades, and left a significant…
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900)
Ruskin's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed…
John Singer Sargent ( 12 January, 1856 – 14 April 1925)
He was born in Florence to American parents, and trained in Paris before moving to London, living most of his life in Europe. He enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter, although not…
John William Godward (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922)
Waiting for an answer by John William Godward 1889 with artist possible self portrait
John William Waterhouse
Born in Rome to English parents who were both painters, Waterhouse later moved to London, where he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Art. He soon began exhibiting at their annual summer exhibitions,…
Joseph-Marie Vien (18 June 1716 – 27 March 1809)
Julian Fellowes(born 17 August 1949), the man who created The Downton Abbey
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford DL is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. He is primarily…
Karen Graham (born in 1945), The Estee Lauder Woman
After college, she moved to New York City to pursue career as a French-language high school teacher.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003)
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Hepburn's career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned more than 60 years. Known for…
Keira Knightely
Keira Christina Righton, OBE (born 26 March 1985) is a British actress. She has starred in both independent films and big-budget blockbusters, and is particularly noted for her roles in period…
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983)
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark OM CH KCB FBA (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. After running two important art galleries in the 1930s…
Kristin Scott Thomas(born 24 May 1960)
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas, DBE (born 24 May 1960) is an English actress who also holds French citizenship. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best…
Lady Diana Cooper(29 August 1892-16 June 1986)
Diana, Viscountess Norwich (née Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners; 29 August 1892 – 16 June 1986) was an English actress and aristocrat who was a well-known social figure in London and Paris.
Lauren Bacall
Bacall began a career as a model before making her film debut as the leading lady in To Have and Have Not (1944) at the age of 19. She continued in the film noir genre with appearances alongside…
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of…
Lee Miller(23 April 1907-21 July 1977)
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American model, photographer and photojournalist. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to…
Lee Radziwill
Caroline Lee Radziwiłł (née Bouvier March 3, 1933 – February 15, 2019), usually known as Princess Lee Radziwill, was an American socialite, public-relations executive, and interior decorator. She was…
Léopold-François Kowalsky(8 December1856-13 July 1931)
Léopold-François Kowalsky, né le 8 décembre 1856 à Paris et mort le 13 juillet 1931 à Hardencourt-Cocherel, est un peintre français.
Leslie Caron(1 July 1931), the woman who has danced with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Mikhail Baryshnikov
Leslie Caron est une actrice et danseuse franco-américaine, née le 1er juillet 1931 à Boulogne-Billancourt.
Liane de Poug(2 July 1869-26 December 1950)
Liane de Pougy (born Anne-Marie Chassaigne, 2 July 1869 – 26 December 1950), was a Folies Bergère vedette and dancer renowned as one of Paris's most beautiful and notorious courtesans.
Lily Elsie(8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962)
Elsie Cotton (née Hodder, 8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962), known professionally as Lily Elsie, was an English actress and singer during the Edwardian era. She was best known for her starring role…
Linda Christian (November 13, 1923 – July 22, 2011), the first James Bond girl
Linda Christian (born Blanca Rosa Welter; November 13, 1923 – July 22, 2011) was a Mexican film actress, who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and…
Lino Guanciale (11 October 1979, Rome, Italy)
Lino Guanciale (21 maggio 1979) è un attore italiano. Nasce in Abruzzo da padre medico e madre insegnante, la sua carriera d'attore inizia in teatro: diretto da Gigi Proietti recita in Romeo e…
Lisa Fonssagrives (17 May 1911 – 4 February 1992)
Lisa Fonssagrives (born Lisa Birgitta Bernstone; 17 May 1911 – 4 February 1992), was a Swedish fashion model widely credited with having been the first supermodel. She was also the wife of American…
Loretta Young(6 January 1913-12 August 2000)
Loretta Young (born Gretchen Young; 6 January 1913 – 12 August, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the…
Louis Jourdan
Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself to it. I was the French cliche.”
Louise Dahl-Wolfe (November 19, 1895 – December 11, 1989)
Among the celebrated fashion photographers of the 20th century, Louise Dahl-Wolfe was an innovator and influencer who significantly contributed to the fashion world.
Luis de Medina(born 31 August 1980)
Louis de Medina y Abascal, 20th Duke of Feria, GE (born 25 September 1978) is the younger son of the late 19th Duke of Feria and the Spanish top-model Nati Abascal . Together with his older brother…
Lynn Fontanne (6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983)
Lynn Fontanne (6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) was a British actress. She teamed with her husband, Alfred Lunt. Lunt and Fontanne were given special Tony Awards in 1970. They both won Emmy Awards in…
Lynn Wyatt (born July 16, 1935)
During the height of the oil boom in the 1970s/early 1980s, the family mansion in Houston was known as the "Wyatt Hyatt" becoming a "home away from home" for people including Princess Margaret,…
Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (28 April 1701 – 6 September 1780)
Madeleine Vionnet (22 June 1876 – 2 March 1975)
Mainbocher(24 octobre 1890-27 décembre 1976)
Main Rousseau Bocher (October 24, 1890 – December 27, 1976), also known as Mainbocher, was an American couturier best known for the eponymous fashion label he founded in 1929. Although often…
Manuel Pertegaz(1917 or 18 May 1918-30 August 2014)
Manuel Pertegaz Ibáñez ( 1917 or 18 May 1918-30 August 2014), known as Manuel Pertegaz or simply as Pertegaz was a Spanish fashion designer. He established his own atelier in 1940s and acquired…
Marcel Proust(10 July 1871-18 November 1922)
Marcel Proust, c. 1895; photograph by Otto Wegener / Marcel Proust vers 1895, par Otto Wegener.
Marcello Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996)
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor, regarded as his country's biggest film star of all time. His films include: La Dolce Vita ;…
Margot Fonteyn (18 May 1919-21 February 1991)
Dame Margot Fonteyn, DBE (18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), stage name of Margaret Evelyn de Arias, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet (formerly…
María Casares (21 November 1922-22 November 1996)
María Casares (21 November 1922 – 22 November 1996) was a Spanish-French actress and one of the most distinguished stars of the French stage and cinema. She was credited in France as Maria Casarès.
María de los Ángeles Félix(8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002)
María de los Angeles Félix Güereña was born in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico on 8 April 1913.
Maria Monter, queen of tecnicolor
María África Gracia Vidal conocida como María Montez (Barahona, República Dominicana, 1912 - Suresnes, Francia, 1951), La Reina Del Technicolor fue una cantautora dominicana que ganó fama y…
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo(11 May 1871-3 May 1949)
Portrait of Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, father of Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, 1875 by Goupil and CieParis
Marie-Thérèse Reboul (26 February 1735 – 28 December 1805)
Marion Cotillard(born 30 September 1975)
Marion Cotillard (born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, film producer, singer, and environmentalist. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various…
Marisa Pavan
Marisa Pavan (born Maria Luisa Pierangeli; 19 June 1932) is an Italian-born actress who first became known as the twin sister of film star Pier Angeli (Anna Maria Pierangeli) before achieving…
Mark Shaw (June 25, 1921 – January 26, 1969)
He is best known for his photographs of John F. Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline Kennedy , and their children, Caroline and John F. Kennedy, Jr. In 1964, many of these images were published in the book…
Marlene Dietrich(27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992)
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich(27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-born American actress and singer. Her career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.
Marpessa Hennink (12 July 1964), the muse of Dolce&Gabbana
Marpessa Hennink(12 July 1964) is a Dutch fashion model. She is best known for her work as a runway model, which earned her the moniker “The Catwalk Contessa”.
Martha Graham (11 May 1894 – 1 April 1991)
Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the US: the…
Martin Beaupre
Martin Beaupré was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1961. Over the years Martin has found his point of balance by associating art with energy. As a full-time painter Martin’s paintings are a reflection of…
Mary Donaldson (Queen Mary of Denmark)
Mary, Queen of Denmark, Countess Mary of Monpezat, R.E. is the wife of King Frederik X.
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992)
Fisher was born Mary Frances Kennedy on July 3, 1908, at 202 Irwin Avenue, Albion, Michigan.
Mary Moser (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819)
Mary Moser RA (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated women artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy…
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015)
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya in ballet film Anna Karenina, 1974
Melania Trump(born April 26, 1970)
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs, Germanized as Melania Knauss, April 26, 1970) is a Slovene-American former model and businesswoman. She was the first lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021,…
Merle Oberon(19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979)
Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was an Indian-born British actress who began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private…
Michèle Morgan(29 Februray 1920-20 December 2016)
Michèle Morgan (née Simone Renée Roussel; 29 February 1920 – 20 December 2016) was a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades in both French cinema and Hollywood features. She…
Michelle Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958)
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress. Known for pursuing eclectic roles from a wide variety of film genres, she has frequently received acclaim for her versatile…
Miranda Kerr(born 20 April 1983)
Miranda May Kerr (born 20 April 1983) is an Australian model and businesswoman. Kerr rose to prominence in 2007, as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's…
Monica Bellucci(born 30 September 1964)
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (born 30 September 1964) is an Italian actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before making a transition to…
Moza Bint Nasser Al Missnedher Highness Sheikha Moza
Sheikha Moza bin Nasser at El Pardo Palace on April 25, 2011 in Madrid, Spain
Nancy Mitford(28 November 1904-30 June 1973)
“Isn’t it awful to love clothes as much as I do, you know, I am not vain at all.¨
Natacha Rambova (January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966)
Natacha Rambova (born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy; January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966) was an American film costume designer, set designer, and occasional actress who was active in Hollywood in the…
Natalie Portman (born June 9, 1981)
Portman began her acting career at age twelve, when she starred as the young protégée of a hitman in the action drama film Léon: The Professional (1994). While in high school, she made her Broadway…
Naty Abascal(born 1 April 1943)
Natividad Abascal y Romero-Toro (born 2 April 1943, in Seville, Spain), more commonly known as Naty Abascal (formerly, the Duchess of Feria), is a Spanish socialite and former fashion model. She has…
Ninon de Lenclos(10 November 1620 — 17 October 1705)
Ninon de l'Enclos ( Paris, 10 November 1620 — Paris, 17 October 1705) Courtesan, wit, woman of letters — and one of the very few people in seventeenth-century France who lived entirely on her own…
Noel Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of…
Norman Norell (April 20, 1900 – October 25, 1972)
Norman David Levinson (April 20, 1900 – October 25, 1972) known professionally as Norman Norell, was an American fashion designer famed for his elegant gowns, suits, and tailored silhouettes. His…
Norman Parkinson, CBE (21 April 1913 – 15 February 1990)
The Italian Collections, 3 Little Black Dresses by Capucci, Florence, 1961, British Glamour , photo by Norman Parkinson
Novak Djokovic(22 May 1987)
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
Olga de Meyer(8 August 1871 – 6 January 1931)
Baroness Olga de Meyer (born Maria Beatrice Olga Alberta Caracciolo; 8 August 1871 – 6 January 1931) was a British-born artists' model, socialite, patron of the arts, writer, and fashion figure of the early 20th century. She was best known as the wife of photographer Adolph de Meyer and goddaughter of King Edward VII, who was also rumored to be her biological father.
Olga Zabotkina (18 January 1936-21 December 2001)
Olga Zabotkina was born on 18 January 1936 in Leningrad, USSR . She studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School (class of N. A. Kamkova and V. K. Ivanova). She graduated and joined the Kirov Ballet…
Olivia De Havilland DBE (July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020)
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British-American actress. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films…
Omar Sharif(10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015), an Elegant Egyptian
Omar Sharif (born Michel Dimitri Chalhoub, 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actor. He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his…
Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo (22 July 1932 – 20 October 2014)
Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo , the youngest of seven children and the only boy in his family, was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother, Carmen María Antonia Fiallo, and…
Oscar Wilde
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s with his plays like The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He was also…
Paloma Picasso
Paloma Picasso (born Anne Paloma Ruiz-Picasso y Gilot on 19 April 1949), is a French and Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman, best known for her jewelry designs for Tiffany & Co. and her…
Pamela Churchill Harriman, the greatest courtesan of 20th century
Pamela Beryl Harriman (20 March 1920 – 5 February 1997), also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English-born American political activist for the Democratic Party, diplomat, and socialite.
Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy…
Paul Poiret (20 April 1879 – 30 April 1944)
Paul Poiret (20 April 1879 – 30 April 1944, Paris, France)was a leading French fashion designer, a master couturier during the first two decades of the 20th century. He was the founder of his…
Pauline, Baronesse de Rothschild (31 December 1908 - 8 March 1976)
"The great danger for an American woman married to a Frenchman is to become too French. To assimilate too much of another nationality weakens you. Though on the surface I might not seem to be 100…
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822)
Shelley’s critical reputation fluctuated in the twentieth century, but in recent decades he has achieved increasing critical acclaim for the sweeping momentum of his poetic imagery, his mastery of…
Perry Edwin Ellis (3 March , 1940 – 30 May, 1986)
Perry Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house in the mid-1970s. Ellis' influence on the fashion industry has been called "a huge turning point" because he…
Peter O'toole (2 August 1932-14 December 2013)
"I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony."
Philippe Jaroussky (born 13 February 1978)
Unusually for a countertenor, Jaroussky performs entirely in falsetto register. He has said that his natural singing voice is in the baritone range.
Pierce Brosnan OBE (born 16 May 1953)
Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor and film producer. He is best known as the fifth actor to play secret agent James Bond in the Bond film series, starring in four films…
Pierre Balmain (18 May 1914-29 June 1982)
Pierre Balmain is a French couturier who created his couture house in 1945, and one of the most prominent couturiers during the 50s who revitalized the Paris couture after the Second World War,…
Pierre Cardin
He was designated a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1991, and a United Nations FAO Goodwill Ambassador in 2009.
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon(4 April 1758-16 February 1823)
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon nait à Cluny, le 4 avril 1758, septième et dernier enfant de Christophe Prudon, maître tailleur de pierre.
Prince Aly Salman Aga Khan (13 June 1911 – 12 May 1960)
Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan (13 June 1911 – 12 May 1960), known as Aly Khan, was a son of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, the leader of the Nizārī Ismaili Muslims, a sect of Shia Islam, and the…
Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Kent(25 December 1936)
Princess Alexandra,The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel ) is a member of the British royal family.
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (25 December 1901-29 October 2004)
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, portrait by Vandyk, 1930s
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark,Duchess of Kent; 13 December 1906 – 27 August 1968)
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, CI, GCVO, GBE (Greek: Μαρίνα, later Duchess of Kent; 13 December 1906 – 27 August 1968) was a princess of the Greek royal house, who married Prince George,…
Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley(5 December 1905 – 27 December 1981)
Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley (Russian: Наталья Павловна Палей; 5 December 1905 – 27 December 1981) was a Russian aristocrat who was a non-dynastic member of the Romanov family. A daughter of Grand…
Princess Olga Of Greece And Denmark
Princess Olga with her two sisters Princess Marina and Princess Elizabeth.
Queen Fawzia Fuad of Egypt(5 November 1921 - 2 July 2013)
Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (5 November 1921 – 2 July 2013), also known as Muluk Fawzia of Iran and Fawzia Chirine, was an Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza…
Rafael de Medina Abascal (born 25 September 1978)
Rafael de Medina y Abascal, 20th Duke of Feria, GE (born 25 September 1978) is the son of the late 19th Duke of Feria and the Spanish top-model Nati Abascal . He belongs to one of the most important…
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. A Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National…
Ralph Lauren Kbe
Ralph Lauren, KBE (born Lifshitz; born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best known for the Ralph Lauren Corporation, a global…
Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1805-27 April 1882)
“Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse. Say to them, O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances…
René Gruau (4 February 1909 – 31 March 2004)
Count Renato Zavagli Ricciardelli della Caminate, professionally known as René Gruau (4 February 1909 – 31 March 2004) was a fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion design through…
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue , specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of…
Rita de Acosta Lydig (1 October 1875-27 October 1929)
Rita Hernandez de Alba de Acosta Stokes Lydig (October 1875 – October 27, 1929) was an American socialite regarded as "the most picturesque woman in America." She was photographed by Adolf de Meyer,…
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987)
Hayworth is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film noir Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. Fred Astaire, with whom she…
Robert de Montesquiou(7 March 1855 – 11 December 1921)
Le comte Robert de Montesquiou, né à Paris le 19 mars 1855 et mort à Menton (Alpes-Maritimes) le 11 décembre 1921, est un poète, homme de lettres, dandy et critique d'art et de littérature.
Robert Doisneau(14 April 1912-1 April 1994)
Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s, he made photographs on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and together with Henri…
Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936)
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director, and activist. He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award,…
Roberto Capucci(born 2 December 1930)
Roberto Capucci (born December 2, 1930 in Rome, Italy ) is an Italian fashion designer. He created unusual, sculpted dresses in original materials, bewitched the fashion world and has, since his…
Roger Federer
After turning professional in 1998, he was continuously ranked in the top ten from October 2002 to November 2016 and re-entered the top ten following his victory at the 2017 Australian Open.
Roger Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017)
Sir Roger George Moore KBE (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor best known for playing British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985, beginning with Live…
Roger Vadim(26 January 1928-11 February 2000)
Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. His best-known works are…
Romy Schneider
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Rosalba Carriera (7 October 1675 – 15 April 1757)
Rudolf Nureyev (Rudolf Noureev, 17 March 1938-1993)
Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev 1966 in rehearsals for ballet The Young Man and Death 1966
Samuel Thesis (12 november 1978 Moselle France)
It is the story of how Louis xiv transformed a simple hunting lodge into the most sumptuous royal residence of Europe, with the service of the greatest talents of the époque. And in the process,…
Shigeru Umebayashi
In 1991, Shigeru Umebayashi scored for Japanese director Seijun Suzuki 's biopic film about Japanese painter and poet Takehisa Yumeji Yumeji ), one of the scores "Yumeji's Theme" was later included…
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, ARA (28 August, 1833 – 17 June, 1898)
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Sir Frederic Leighton (3 December 1830-25 January 1896)
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British painter, draughtsman and sculptor. His works…
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792)
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century.…
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973)
Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would…
Sophia Loren
Sofia Villani Scicolone Dame Grand Cross OMRI (born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Lorenis an Italian actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as the 21st greatest…
Sophie Marceau (Born 17 November 1966)
Sophie Marceau (born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum…
Stefan Zweig(28 November 1881-22 February 1942)
Stefan Zweig (28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the…
Stéphane Boudin(28 October 1888-18 October 1967)
Stéphane Boudin (28 October 1888 – 18 October 1967) was a French interior designer and a president of Maison Jansen, the influential Paris-based interior decorating firm.
Suzy Parker(October 28, 1932 – May 3, 2003)
Suzy Parker (born Cecilia Ann Renee Parker; October 28, 1932 – May 3, 2003) was an American model and actress active from 1947 into the early 1960s. Her modeling career reached its zenith during the…
Svetlana Zakharova(3 June 1979)
Svetlana Zakharova was born in Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, on June 10, 1979. At the age of six, she was taken by her mother to learn folk dancing at a local studio, and by the age of 10, she…
Takehisa Yumeji (16 September1884 - 1 September1934)
Takeheisa Yumeji (Takehisa Yumeji, 16 September1884 - 1 September1934) is a Japanese poet, prose writer, graphic artist, designer, and romantic artist. His work falls on the era of Taisho (1912 -…
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968)
Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead appeared in several films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). She also had a brief but successful career on radio…
Tamara de Lempicka(16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980)
Tamara Łempicka (born Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Górska; 16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States.…
Tamara Rojo Cbe
Tamara Rojo CBE (born 17 May 1974) is a Spanish ballet dancer. She is English National Ballet's artistic director and a lead principal dancer with the company. She was previously a principal dancer…
Tao Porchon-Lynch (August 13, 1918 — February 21, 2020)
Tao Porchon-Lynch (born Täo Andrée Porchon, August 13, 1918 — February 21, 2020) was an American yoga master and award-winning author of French and Indian descent. She discovered yoga in 1926 when…
Terence Rattigan Cbe
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was a British dramatist and screenwriter. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote The Winslow Boy…
Tony Curtis
Although his early film roles mainly took advantage of his good looks, by the latter half of the 1950s he had demonstrated range and depth in numerous dramatic and comedy roles. By the time he…
Travis Banton(costume designer, August 18, 1894 – February 2, 1958)
Travis Banton (August 18, 1894 – February 2, 1958) was an American costume designer. He is perhaps best known for his long collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich and director Josef von…
Tyrone Power(May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958)
Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) was an American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His…
Uemura Shoen(上村 松園, April 23, 1875 – August 27, 1949)
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Valentina Schlee(1 May 1899 - 14 September 1989)
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Véronique Passani Peck(5 February 1932 – 17 August 2012)
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Vivien Leigh
After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared in small roles in four films in 1935 and progressed to the role of heroine in Fire Over England (1937). Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt…
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977)
Nabokov's Lolita (1955) was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels in 2007; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list; and his memoir, Speak, Memory (1951), was…
Wilhelm "Willy" Maywald (15 August 1907 – 21 May 1985) German photographer
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William Holman Hunt OM (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910)
Self-portrait of William Holman Hunt, 1867, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
William Morris(24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896)
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was…
Yon González(born 20 May 1986)
Yon González Luna (born 20 May 1986) is a Spanish actor. He is probably best known for his performance as Iván Noiret León in the Antena 3 series The Boarding School (El internado), as well as for…
Yvonne Mitchell(7 july 1915-24 march 1979)
Yvonne Mitchell (7 July 1915 – 24 March 1979) was an English stage, television and film actress. After beginning her acting career in theatre, Mitchell progressed to films in the late 1940s. Her…
Zhang Ziyi(Chinese: 章子怡; born 9 February 1979)
Zhang Ziyi (Chinese: 章子怡; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress and model. She is regarded as one of the Four Dan Actresses of China. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later…