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Kyivan Rus’
1000–1200
Scythian
ca. 5th century BCE
Amadou Ahejo, Kano, Nigeria
ca. 1940
Jacques Fath
spring/summer 1947
Auguste Renoir
1878
Scythian
ca. 5th century BCE
Scythian
ca. 5th century BCE
Scythian
ca. 5th century BCE
Scythian
ca. 5th century BCE
Kyivan Rus’
1000–1200
Scandinavian, possibly Danish
late 10th–early 11th century
ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
Charles James
1955
Charles James
1946
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)
1530s
Sir Thomas Lawrence
1790
India
probably 1940s
1940s–50s
Mark Mooring
June 1942
Claire McCardell
late 1940s
Claire McCardell
late 1940s
Gilbert Adrian
1944–45
Ceil Chapman
late 1940s
Valentina Gowns
1940s
Gilbert Adrian
1940s
Maison Margiela
fall/winter 1993–94
Gilbert Adrian
ca. 1940
House of Paquin
1890s
Claire McCardell
early 1950s
Claire McCardell
early 1950s
Claire McCardell
1950s
Hattie Carnegie, Inc.
1940s
Valentina
1940s
House of Balenciaga
late 1940s
House of Dior
late 1940s
Mainbocher
1940s
Mad Carpentier
late 1940s
Zandra Rhodes
1972
Claire McCardell
1950s