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On Dress

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Oscar Wilde On Dress
Now in a New Updated and Expanded Artisan Edition.

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Back in 2012 I rediscovered Oscar Wilde’s essay “The Philosophy of Dress” and published it the following year in a limited hardback bibliophile edition. That publication represented the essay’s first appearance in book form, and the first posthumous release of a lost work by Wilde.

I am now pleased to introduce the book in an updated and expanded softcover artisan edition.

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Vyvyan Holland

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Here is some America TV footage I recently discovered of Oscar Wilde’s son Vyvyan Holland.

It is in the form of an interview alongside Brian Reade, curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, during a segment on the CBS TV arts program Camera Three about a V&A Aubrey Beardsley exhibition which had transferred to New York’s (then-named) Gallery of Modern Art.

The rare TV showing was a opportunity for Vyvyan to rival his more media savvy wife, Thelma, who had made her latest appearance on American TV earlier in the month discussing fashion on the ABC show Girl Talk.

It provides a chance to see Vyvyan’s unassuming manner as he reveals personal experiences such as shooting moose and witnessing a bedridden bearded Beardsley. [this latter story was deemed a fabrication by Vyvyan’s son Merlin Holland in his retrospective After Oscar (2025), pp. 427/8.]

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