Meaning “Beautiful Night”, our Bella Notte printed Kimono, is a dramatic, evocative tribute to romance.
The seated woman in the trees is from the Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet, Dante Gabriel Rosetti in 1880. While the charming rabbit comes from a much earlier painting done in 1585. The open book at the bottom of the design reads “Many are the stars I see, yet in my eye no star like thee” — words which we took from an engraving inside the band of a gold ring made in the 1700’s.
The beautiful moonlit river landscape on the sleeves comes from an 1840's British oil painting, and the exquisite floral trim is from the border of a calligraphic manuscript by famed artist William Morris from the same era.
