I find it fascinating that he could impart that sense—heroic, violent, grand without sending out purely historical clothes.
Tirelli was an avid collector of antique historical clothes and accessories, seeking them out in places as diverse as flea-markets, the wardrobes and attics of Rome's grandest families and closing-down sales of old-fashioned haberdasheries, from which he amassed a huge stock of buttons, broaches, feathers, ribbons and trimmings.
In The Archers, Lord Sydney and Colonel Acland, wielding antiquarian weaponry and wearing quasi-historical clothes, advance through ancient woodland in some semi-mythical realm.
Telling the energetic tale are family mementos, historical artifacts, clothes, photographs, letters, and, just maybe, the great man's dumbbells.
"I like the idea of incorporating historical references into clothes that ultimately feel modern, understated and clean".
A few days before he showed his spring 2001 line for Tse New York at the Roseland Ballroom on Monday, Mr. Chalayan offered these words: "I don't refer to anything really, anything historical, anything about clothes from the 60's, anything at all.
Mr. Yamamoto's whiskers lent a historical perspective to the clothes.
Historical female ninjas wore clothes similar to male ninjas.
If you wish to be less conventional, go for Gothic inspired mourning clothes to seem historical, religious style robes to seem dedicated to spirituality, or African or Asian style clothes to seem exotic and oriental.
It features hundreds of items -- including rappers' clothes, concert posters and historical memorabilia linking hip-hop to older cultural touchstones -- and several video displays, all in four galleries on the first floor.
Aside from the show's supernatural elements, a historical consultant deemed Carnivàle historic accuracy to be excellent regarding the characters' lives and clothes, their food and accommodations, their cars and all the material culture.
