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advertising Balenciaga

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Lady Diana Manners, a love letter

to Lady Diana Manners

...I find 

that I miss you 

most inconveniently 

and the thought

of not seeing you

at champagne time

is as exasperating 

as it would be

for the moth 

to miss his candle 

of an evening.

                  -Alfred Duff Cooper

photograph of Lady Diana Manners by E.O. Hoppe, 3 years before her marriage to Alfred Duff Cooper.
ad pages from Duke University  Library  here

Love at first sight

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& still, I love.
oh, how I love this fabric.
my first foray into the Dragon was in the colourway featured in this CH advert.
on a little slipper chair, it was the one got away when I was selling some of my beloveds.
(just look at that perfect job the upholsterer did with matching pattern)

read my DRAGON EMPRESS post here 
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