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UNITED STATES / New York: Proust's Muse
by Modem
© Modem

until Tuesday January 03 2017

The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
T : +1 (212) 217 4558
7th Avenue at 27th Street
10001 New York
United States



The Museum at FIT presents Proust's Muse, The Countess Greffulhe, featuring 40 extraordinary fashions and accessories from the fabulous wardrobe of Élisabeth de Caraman-Chimay, the Countess Greffulhe (1860-1952).

A famous beauty celebrated for her "aristocratic and artistic elegance," the countess fascinated her contemporaries, including Marcel Proust who told her cousin, Robert de Montesquiou, "I have never seen a woman so beautiful." When Proust wrote his great novel In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), the Countess Greffulhe was one of the primary inspirations for his immortal fictional character, Oriane, the Duchess de Guermantes, of whom he wrote, "Each of her dresses seemed like...the projection of a particular aspect of her soul."

© Modem