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Hamlet’s Ophelia Set the Template for Copenhagen Fashion Week’s Spring ’18 Boho Look

By Laird Borrelli-Persson
  • Ophelia by John William Waterhouse Stine Goya Spring 2018
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    Ophelia (1910), John William Waterhouse; Stine Goya Spring 2018

  • Ophelia by John William Waterhouse Stine Goya Spring 2018
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    Ophelia (1894), John William Waterhouse; Stine Goya Spring 2018

  • Ophelia by John Gilbert Stine Goya Spring 2018
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    Ophelia, John Gilbert; Stine Goya Spring 2018

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    Ophelia among the Flowers (c. 1905-1908), Odilon Redon; Stine Goya’s “dream” dresses captured by Rockpaperdresses

Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More