🔸 Described by Pablo Picasso as “dressed in a pearl-embroidered gown with a stiff elizabethan ruff and a neckline that plunged to her navel”, Marchesa Luisa Castai was an Italian heiress that is too incredible to be forgotten. Born in 1881 in Milan, Luis Casati was brought up in a highly affluent yet dysfunctional family. Her father was made a count a King Umberto I and when both her parents passed away by the time Casati was 15, making Casati and her older sister Francesca, reportedly the wealthiest women in Italy. At 19 she was married to Count Camillo Casati Stampa di Soncino, however her subsequent affair with poet Gabriella d’Annunzio caused Casati transformation into an ecentric femme fatale, the epitome of belle epoque. Photo taken c.1905 Source: ladycultblog #victorianchaps #oldphoto #retro #luisacasati #eccentric #oldphoto #goodolddays #fashion #beauty #icon #vintage #edwardian #1900s #nostalgia #pastlives https://www.instagram.com/p/CeJpkV-g4l7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
