The Dandy: Peacock
or Enigma?
by Nigel Rodgers
A look at the
phenomenon of the dandy from Regency England to the contemporary
Congolese Sapeurs, with stops at Wodehouse, Wilde, Grant, and more
The dandy is not
just an elaborately or even well-dressed man, nor is he an
exclusively English phenomenon. He is something far more universal
and intriguing, and this study explores his cultural significance. It
starts with Beau Brummell, acknowledged as the very first dandy, a
man whose ancestors had been servants, yet who invented a new
paradigm of courtesy, wit, independence, and elegance to lord over
the aristocrats of England. Brummell died in exile, forgotten and
impoverished—the best dandies often die in debt. But his image
lived on, to haunt and inspire generations around the world, from the
boulevards of Paris and St. Petersburg in the 1830s to the studios of
Hollywood a century later. Byron, Disraeli, Bulwer, Pushkin, Chopin,
Delacroix, Balzac, Baudelaire, Wilde, Proust, Boni de Castellane,
Hugo von Hofmannstahl, Beerbohm, Noël Coward, Cary Grant, Fred
Astaire, Vladimir Nabokov, Ortega y Gassett, Mikhael Bulgakov, Evelyn
Waugh, Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Wolfe, Nick Foulkes—all were bedazzled
by the image of the dandy.
The Life Of Pitti
Peacocks - Pitti Uomo Mockumentary
Aaron Christian
After working in the
fashion industry for over 5 years, and regularly attending the
biggest fashion shows in the world I started to notice that there was
a small change happening in and around the shows.
Street style by this
time had become a huge industry with photographers shooting for the
world's biggest fashion publications showcasing the hottest looks on
the street to eager consumers.
However, the last
few years i began noticing that those attending the shows became all
to aware of the photographers.
Unlike the cues
outside of the city shows, where photographers have a few seconds to
snap their favourite look. Pitti Uomo is a four day long menswear
trade- show, in Florence Italy
It’s a vast space
where attendees spend all day walking around, visiting stands, eating
in the sun or catching up with fellow fashion colleagues - and so
consequently it has become a prime spot for the worlds top street
style photographers to document and shoot some of the most stylish
men on the planet.
It’s become a
peacock parade where the men show off their outfits in all their
glory hoping to get snapped by the top photographers.
It’s quite
comical, the way the fully grown men pace around subtly trying their
best to get snapped, and it’s the perfect location for this
wildlife style mockumentray to take place.
A light hearted
tongue in cheek look at peacocks of Pitti.
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