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Bohemian style From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Young Bohémienne: Natalie Clifford Barney (1875-1972) at the age of 10 (painting by Carolus-Duran) Main article: Bohemianism In modern usage, the term Bohemian is applied to people who live unconventional, usually artistic, lives. The adherents of the Bloomsbury Group, which formed around the Stephen sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf in the early 20th century, are among the best-known examples. The original Bohemians were travelers or refugees from central Europe (hence, the French bohémien, for gypsy). Reflecting on the fashion style of boho-chic in the early years of the 21st century, the Sunday Times thought it ironic that fashionable girls wore ruffly floral skirts in the hope of looking bohemian, nomadic, spirited and non-bourgeois, whereas gypsy girls themselves ... are sexy and delightful precisely because they do not give a hoot for fashion [1]. By contrast, in the late 19th century and first half of the 20th, aspects of Bohemian fashion reflected the lifestyle itself. Pre-Raphaelites Jane Morris painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Proserpine (1874) In 1848 William Makepeace Thackeray used the word bohemianism in his novel Vanity Fair. In 1862, the Westminster Review described a Bohemian as simply an artist or littérateur who, consciously or unconsciously, secedes from conventionality in life and in art. During the 1860s the term was associated in particular with the pre-Raphaelite movement, the group of artists and aesthetes of which Dante Gabriel Rossetti was the most prominent [2]: As the 1860s progressed, Rossetti would become the grand prince of bohemianism as his deviations from normal standards became more audacious. And as he beceme this epitome of the unconventional, his egocentric demands necessarily required his close friends to remodel their own lives around him. His bohemianism was like a web in which others became trapped – none more so than William and Ja