Callot
Americannoun
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In the second volume of “Remembrance of Things Past,” the Narrator asks his beloved, Albertine, “Is there a vast difference between a Callot dress and one from any ordinary shop?”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015
Hortense Acton, with La Pietra as her lavish stage set, wore her Callot Soeurs gowns to entertain; her parties drew everyone from Gertrude Stein and Sergei Diaghilev to Winston Churchill.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015
The Callot Soeurs gowns found in the trunks belonged to Hortense Mitchell Acton, and are being shown for the first time in the photographs here.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015
From the tunics of Callot Soeurs to the cylindrical day dresses of Vionnet to the drop-waist skirts of Chanel in the 1920s, fashion's deflation followed the Cubist embrace of the plane.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes St. Michael is overcoming Satan; and sometimes St. Anthony is attacked by various devils of most clumsy forms—not of the grotesque and limber family of Callot!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
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