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  • Aussie designer Michael Angel's playful, graphic spring runway drew inspiration from strong influential women such as Nancy Cunard and Josephine Baker.

    unknown title 2009

  • The Look: Erdem The house's designer, Frida Giannini, said she drew inspiration from two icons of the 1920s: silent-film star Louise Brooks and writer/activist Nancy Cunard.

    Costume Drama Rachel Dodes 2012

  • "I am not a Negro," he told Nancy Cunard in 1934, on being invited to contribute to her "Negro Anthology."

    Passing Fancies James Campbell 2011

  • He certainly could, and his increasingly elegant work attracted a loyal coterie of what curator Ann Temkin calls "fancy American ladies," such as Nancy Cunard.

    When Less Was More 2008

  • The publication of two books of mine by the Hours Press was plotted by Nancy Cunard and myself in London.

    A Private Press Thomson, Virgil 1976

  • Nancy Cunard was a paradigm of the Twenties so assiduously accurate in her ingredients and measurements as to be a parody, and it is not surprising that she served as the model for numerous portraits of girls in the fiction of the period, most notably as Lucy Tantamount in Point Counter Point and Iris March in The Green Hat.

    Spirits Stafford, Jean 1969

  • Marchesa Casati -she rimmed her eyes with kohl and shared her Venetian palazzo with leopards and gorillas-and that posh flapper-gone-bad, Nancy Cunard .

    Slate Articles Simon Doonan 2011

  • So when I do a collection like the one I just showed" - her spring 2012 collection, Hard Deco, was inspired by Nancy Cunard and the Chrysler building - "there is always a connection.

    The Guardian World News Jess Cartner-Morley 2011

  • Terrible title, but a distractingly engaging account, when chemistry homework was dragging, of every stylish woman from Nancy Cunard to Lauren Hutton.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • In 1937, when Nancy Cunard sent a survey to leading novelists of the UK asking which side they took in the Spanish Civil war,

    SpikeMagazine.com 2009

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