![]() ![]() Some women used it to get out of a situation and some women were truly unwell. Her playful approach has researched undercurrents such as that “hysteria was once a blanket term for anything that was wrong with a woman if she wasn’t sitting calmly embroidering. ![]() To that end, one room features a woman in hysteria, a drunk man with spilled wine and a rat crawling up his leg, a cat freaking out about the rat, two people running to the rescue, two frightened children and an overturned card table. Directing “Emma,” starring Anya Taylor-Joy and set in early 19th-century England, made for a good fit.Īll in all, the focus of her rooms is to remind people that life is messy no matter what time period that it is, de Wilde said. Visitors to what is the second of a two-part exhibition about American fashion will find de Wilde’s mise-en-scènes in the Baltimore Room - a room from a Baltimore town house built around 1810 that belonged to the merchant and shipowner Henry Craig - and in the Benkard Room, a parlor room from a Petersburg, Va., house built in 1811. I exaggerate to a certain extent and then put in very human things that people forget about because I think life is totally ridiculous. “In ‘Emma,’ I said, ‘What if she got a nosebleed during the proposal?’ I get nosebleeds all the time. “There is a habit to create a stereotype of ‘this is a woman in distress and she will always look like this’ and ‘this is a man who is romantic and he will always do this and look like that,’” she said. Not afraid to magnify the absurdities and realities of life, de Wilde said she just remembers people acting crazy more than other people do. They Are Wearing: Paris Couture Week Fall 2022
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