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This Was Fashion on Instagram: “Mae West photographed as a bat, spider, and butterfly for Belle of the Nineties (1934). Costume Design by Travis Banton. Tag…”

What’s your favorite way to celebrate Halloween? Spending an evening exchanging scary stories with your closest friends, binging horror films that will make you sleep with the lights on for a week, or passing out candy to all of the adorable kids who dressed up as their favorite characters to go trick or treating? There’s no wrong way to embrace the spooky season, but if you’re looking for a frightening experience, what might be even more terrifying than ghost stories and strolls through…

'Ecstacy' - Erte (Romain De Tirtoff) Art Deco female dancer sculpture ca.1930 by Ferdinand Preiss, Austria. Art Deco relief mural by Ronald Atkinson Lobby, (former) Daily Express Building, London The Art Deco movement was championed in 1925 as a mission to embrace modernism, decorativism and globalism into a collective creative force and harness the artistic talent that had converged on Paris after WW1. A comparable influential trajectory had occured in 1919 when Walter Gropius established…

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Book Halloween circus for thrilling Halloween performers and walkabout act. Spooky roaming Halloween characters and stilt walkers for parties and events.