{"id":901,"date":"2009-01-12T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/01\/12\/project-vionnet\/"},"modified":"2013-03-11T23:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T06:04:35","slug":"project-vionnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/01\/12\/project-vionnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Vionnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Greek classicism.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Vionnet.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Vionnet dress with ruffle skirt, 1934<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Take the Greek classicism of the great French dressmaker Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) and marry it to the no less classical photography of <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/06\/17\/george-hoyningen-huene\/ target=_blank>George Hoyningen-Huene<\/a> and you have a timeless combination of life and art.  So it hardly needs adding that <i>the<\/i> best gift this Christmas brought along was Betty Kirke&#8217;s definitive book <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Madeleine-Vionnet-Betty-Kirke\/dp\/0811819973\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1231706325&#038;sr=8-1 target=_blank>Vionnet<\/a> which my grandparent&#8217;s gave me this past December 25th.<\/p>\n<p>Not only an orgy of photography by Hoyningen-Huene, Penn, Steichen, Beaton, Horst and other greats, this very large format book includes detailed patterns for many of the seemingly simple, yet highly skilled, creations of this greatest of clothes designers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek classicism. Vionnet dress with ruffle skirt, 1934 Take the Greek classicism of the great French dressmaker Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) and marry it to the no less classical photography of George Hoyningen-Huene and you have a timeless combination of life and art. So it hardly needs adding that the best gift this Christmas brought along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/01\/12\/project-vionnet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vionnet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22517,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/22517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}