Reclining Young Man, c. 1925. Smithsonian American Art Museum, purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program.
Louise Varèse wrote about fashion in
Rogue, a Dada-influenced New York avant-garde literary magazine that published in 1915 and 1916.
Rogue, with its title a pun on
Vogue, was a so-called little. As the term suggests, the little magazine was a literary magazine with a small circulation. The genre had its heyday in the 1920s and was known to publish artistic and literary work, often aligned with the avant-garde, and thus deemed too daring for a mass magazine audience.
Rogue was started by Varèse, who then wrote under the name Louise Norton, and her husband Allen Norton, and, as argued by literary scholar Jay Bochner, it was steeped in the new advances made by women, taking for granted “the voting, smoking, and corsetless woman.”