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Futurism
Futurism wasn’t about the future—it was about breaking the present with a petrol-soaked rag.
The interwar years
Twenty years of unfinished business between two wars.
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Lost Generation
A garage mechanic’s insult became a generation’s epitaph—and erased everyone who didn’t write in Paris.
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Republic of Montmartre (Paris)
A charity masquerading as a republic—and succeeding precisely because it refused to take its own sovereignty seriously.
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British Council
A state-backed cultural agency founded not to share art, but to fight ideology — and still operating on that premise.
Chanel
Gabrielle Chanel · 2010
Chanel is an Anglo-French luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris. It began in 1909 as a millinery shop. It popularised sporty, casual chic in the post–World War I era using jersey and prêt-à-porter sports clothes. It closed in 1939. Chanel collaborated directly with the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst during the occupation. She was not charged due to Winston Churchill’s intervention. She revived the house in 1954.
Christian Dior
Christian Dior
Christian Dior’s work from 1947–1957 redefined fashion as seasonal, named, and nationally symbolic — not personal style, but statecraft in cloth.