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  1. It’s the “Baby Gets Back” look. Or the “Baby Gets Back Back” look. It’s the Michelle Obama effect. Look for it soon at Sears.

    Sleeveless now but look for upper arms to be “corseted to resemble a smooth …. cylinder.”

  2. Like a Christian saint or the Buddha, Mrs. Gardner also sports a halo or mandorla. Surely this is not just coincidence, or just a snappy background meaning nothing favored by the artist or Mrs. Gardner. I wonder what is up with that?

  3. “Thierry Mugler has managed to do to Beyonce what most women would kill him for”

    There it is! Blame poor Thierry. Perhaps Beyonce did what most women would never do, wear a dress that made them look like they’d slipped into a loving cup. The dress might have just barely passed had it been black, but the silver fish scale look cum see through is a… oh what the hell – like I know what I’m talking about!

  4. Beyonce succumbed to the “I can wear those spandex pants syndrome” It might not be too bad if she had more shoulders

  5. Strapless : John Singer Sargeant and the fall of Madame X by Debora Davis tells the fascinating story about the scandal that ensued as a result of The Painting, and its aftermath.

  6. She looks like a sweet lady, but I think Isabella has some kinda neurological disorder: left side of her face is drooping and her eye wanders off to the left.

    Also, the haircut: what she thinking?

    “Oh, hey, this will make me look like an urchin—or possibly a waif—from Dorchester.”

    Still, she had an okay house, but moist.

  7. What a riot: uncovering the hitherto unobserved parallel between Sargent’s Madame X and the Janet Jackson “oopsy” debacle. Would that we could somehow take the palette and brush to real life and, Sargent-like, revise forever that cheap display of halftime sensationalism.

  8. Beyonce looks marvelous in the dress but the dress also looks marvelous on her because she has the body to create the look. It is the constriction of the waist creates the illusion of padded hips, as it has emphasized her hips and thighs. You can see through the dress that her thighs come straight down off the hips. Thanks for these photos, which I really appreciate since having an obsession for the last fifteen years and devotee of images of the corset which I use in my art work. I have also always loved Madame X by Sargent which is one of the most stunning portraits ever made.

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