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Versace started with Gianni Versace in 1978. The brand aspired to create bold and opulent designs and fused art, history and fashion. It often incorporated classical and baroque elements into the designs. Some of the most iconic designs by Versace include the Bondage dress and Safety Pin dress.
At the beginning of the 17th century; the flourishing of the most well-known period of art, the Renaissance, was coming to an end. Though its classical style was popular all throughout Rome, the need for unnatural, stylised and ambiguous forms of art sparked the beginning of what we call ‘Mannerism’.[4]…
‘Invictus’ is a renowned poem composed by the 19th-century English critic, editor and poet William Ernest Henley. The poem, first written in 1875, was published in 1888 in his first volume of poetry known as ‘Book of Verses’. Standing out as his most notable work, his lines depict human resilience and the courage to fight on when all hope has fled…
“Hope is the thing with feathers” is a 19th-century poem written by the American poet Emily Dickinson, a prominent figure of American poetry. The manuscript of this poem appears in Fascicle 13, which Dickinson compiled around 1861. “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” was subsequently published in 1891 in a collection of her works under the title Poems. The poem’s central and only theme is the stimulation of hope in the reader and the never-ending perseverance of hope as a feeling…
