I love this assiut dress! Images of this gown have appeared all over the web for the past decade. Usually, this dress is just tagged as assiut, or included in an unlabeled collection of fashion images. The year that this…
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An Assiut Gown: Hedy Lamarr, Edith Head & Delilah In 1948, Cicil B. Demille, noted film director began work on the Oscar award winning sword and sandal film, Sampson and Delilah starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature. Edith Head, the…
The Belly Dance Reader During the better part of 2012, I was working on a fantastic new publication, The Belly Dance Reader. This 280 page book is a collection of articles, artwork, photographs and essays from the leaders of the…
June Havoc in Assiut As I continue my ongoing research into the history of assiut cloth, one of the themes I’ve been exploring is the use of assiut by Hollywood fashion designers. One of my all-time favorite appearances of assiut…