Once out of fashion, James Whistler actually was quite into fashion.

From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | Date: June 3, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Michael Kilian

NEW YORK _ The artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who died 100 years ago next month, was famous for many things: his mother; his nocturne paintings; his brilliant, full-length society portraits; his wit; his monocle; his foppish dress; his famous friends; and his enemies, including the loony critic John Ruskin, who all but destroyed Whistler's career with a wretched review of one of the artist's greatest paintings.

Scant attention, however, has been paid to another of Whistler's accomplishments: He may have been the best fashion designer of his ...

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