Get Inspired: Photos From Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century
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Link: Get Inspired: Photos From Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century
British historian and journalist Nicholas Foulkes’s new book, Bals: Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century (Assouline), explores the eccentric world of the past century’s most lavish costume balls. Here’s a look at some of the book’s inspirational images. Above: Marisa Berenson, then-fiancée of David de Rothschild, posed in her sumptuous costume, “a tribute to the unconventional attire of the eccentric Italian heiress Luisa Casati,” for the Rothschilds’s Proust Ball at the Château de Ferrières in 1971.
