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Vicky Pass

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Professor and researcher in fashion history, design history, and visual culture...and lover of cooking.

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☀️ NYCJW21 WARM UP ☀️ 📣 Announcing From Tyson Street to New York Fashion Week 📣 a virtual exhibition that celebrates the style and influence of Betty Cooke.

Join Victoria Pass aka @visualsustenance faculty member in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the @marylandinstitutecollegeofart , in conversation with @shanejuliaprada Director of the @baltimorejewelrycenter as they discuss the legendary studio jeweler Betty Cooke’s career and impact on Mid-Century design and her influence on contemporary jewelry.

Pass will tell the story of Betty Cooke’s role as both a Mid-Century Modern designer and taste-maker.

While Cooke is best known for designing and fabricating timeless and chic jewelry, she also played a key role introducing the local Baltimore community to innovative modern design first through her home on Tyson Street.

This program is part of a series inspired by Cooke and her artistic practice, which accompanies the exhibition Betty Cooke: The Circle and the Line, curated by Jeannine Falino @jeanninefalinocurator on view at the Walters Art Museum @thewaltersartmuseum from September 19, 2021–January 2, 2022.

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One of my favourite things about The Vintage Finca is seeking out fresh stock in the local village markets, unearthing curious objects I know nothing about and then spending hours researching them!
This beautiful ethnic hair pick (now SOLD) made of reeds and plant fibre is just one example which I so enjoyed learning about. It was made by the Mangbetu tribe in the Dem Rep of the Congo, probably in the 1920s-1930s.
Just how it ended up in the rural heart of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca is anyone’s guess! 🤔😁
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#mangbetu #centralafrica #africanhairpick #brooklynmuseum #visualsustenance #ethnicdecoration #tribalcollection #africanfashion #africanhairstyles #drc #congofashion #vintagehaircomb #thevintagefinca #researchrabbithole

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We love when one jewelry story leads to another!

Repost from fashion and design historian @visualsustenance:
"Chic jewelry and a love triangle. @pasigraphy's delightful dash through the history of the Tiffany diamond feather for @thejewelrylibrary inspired me to share Elsa Triolet's (1896-1970) story.
Born Ella Yuryevna Kagan, she was a Russian Jewish writer who fell in love with the dashing poet Vladamir Mayakovski. I mean seriously, who wouldn't. Sadly he fell in love with her sister Lilya Brik (also an author and part of the Russian Avant Garde). Lilya was married to the poet and critic Osip Brik, but they had an open marriage. It's complicated y'all!
So Elsa married a French Cavalry officer in 1918 named Andre Triolet and moved to Paris, as you do when your heart is broken by a brooding revolutionary poet. The first marriage eventually fell apart, and Elsa embarked on a career as a writer publishing her first book 'In Tahiti,' about a visit to the island in 1925 at the age of 29. She met the surrealist poet Louis Aragon [slide 2] in 1928, they married and were together for 42 years—they fought in the French resistance and both had illustrious literary careers. Triolet was the first woman to win the Prix Goncourt in 1944.
The story goes that an American director of a newspaper noticed Triolet’s interesting necklace and when she found out that Triolet made it the American told her she ought to try to sell it to a couture house...”

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Photographs by Man Ray.

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