{"id":1922,"date":"2011-10-10T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2011-10-09T16:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T23:04:53","slug":"adrian-and-queen-christina-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/adrian-and-queen-christina-1933\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian and Queen Christina (1933)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/likeabalalaika\/4100141645\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2747\/4100141645_61a48faca5_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greta Garbo as Queen Christina (1933) designed by Adrian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>To prove the point that he always lets mind rule the clothes he  designs, Adrian pointed out the case of \u2018Queen Christina.\u2019 Research  disclosed the real woman had no interest in clothes and spent most of  her life pursuing freedom in a man\u2019s doublet and hose. Yet she was  Queen, and as such, opulence was purposefully manifested at court  functions. So, in creating clothes for this picture. Adrian expressed  the cleverness of the real Queen, as well as the originality of Garbo  before the cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Harrison, Helen. \u201cAdrian\u2019s Fashion Secrets\u201d  <em>Hollywood<\/em>, September 1934.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garboforever.com\/Film_Costume_exhibition.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garboforever.com\/Bilder\/Garbos_Gowns\/Thumb\/Queen_Christina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Christina costume, in Sweden (via Garbo Forever)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To prove the point that he always lets mind rule the clothes he designs, Adrian pointed out the case of \u2018Queen Christina.\u2019 Research disclosed the real woman had no interest in clothes and spent most of her life pursuing freedom in a man\u2019s doublet and hose. Yet she was Queen, and as such, opulence was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,94,91,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}