I want to be a living work of art. — Marchesa Luisa Casati (image via Wikimedia Commons) Marchesa Luisa cut quite the figure. She always drew an audience, even on her nighttime strolls along the river in Venice. As legend has it, she'd set out at sunset, walking two pet leopards on a jeweled leash and wearing only jewels and a fur coat (with nothing underneath, of course). She horrified Italian society with her notoriously eccentric style: dyed-red hair, necklaces made of entwined live snakes, peacock feather headresses, silky pajamas she'd wear as day dresses, glamorous ballgowns she'd wear as nighties.
A Woman to Know: Marchesa Luisa Casati
A Woman to Know: Marchesa Luisa Casati
A Woman to Know: Marchesa Luisa Casati
I want to be a living work of art. — Marchesa Luisa Casati (image via Wikimedia Commons) Marchesa Luisa cut quite the figure. She always drew an audience, even on her nighttime strolls along the river in Venice. As legend has it, she'd set out at sunset, walking two pet leopards on a jeweled leash and wearing only jewels and a fur coat (with nothing underneath, of course). She horrified Italian society with her notoriously eccentric style: dyed-red hair, necklaces made of entwined live snakes, peacock feather headresses, silky pajamas she'd wear as day dresses, glamorous ballgowns she'd wear as nighties.