The Contemporaries

To top off Djuna week, here is a sartorial read of her circle. 

FranZ Liszt

Not quite a contemporary, Franz often visited Djuna's childhood home and had a friendship with her father and grandmother. 

Liszt in the concert hall, 1842

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Anais Nin

 
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954, Kenneth Anger,) a film based on a masquerade where guests were encouraged to "come as your madness," features Anais Nin wearing a birdcage among other things:  I wore a skin-colored leotard, leopard-fur earrings glued to my breasts, and a leopard-fur belt around my waist. Gil Henderson painted on my bare back a vivid jungle scene. I wore eyelashes two inches long. My hair was dusted with gold powder. My head was inside of a birdcage. From within the cage, through the open gate, I pulled out an endless roll of paper on which I had written lines from my books. The ticker tape of the unconscious. I unwound this and handed everyone a strip with a message. (Diary 5 133)

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NATALIE bARNEY

In 1909, Barney created a literary salon in her Paris home, which would host the whos-who for the next 60 years (I'm talking  Rodin, Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and T. S. Eliot.) André Rouveyre sketched a particular gathering in 1913:

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pEGGY gUGGENHEIM

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