The Eternal Seductive Beauty of Feathers

Burkhard Bilger | The New Yorker | 25th September 2017

Great writing. If high fashion is art surely this owes much to exquisite realization. Enter the plumassier. “In the finished collection, almost every outfit bore a striking embellishment: a coat of arms, an embroidered badge, a feathered breastplate, tufted sleeves. These were refined, modern designs, yet they had a rude vitality—as if they might peel from the cloth at any moment and take flight.”