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Born in the south of Mexico, she was raised in rebel Zapatista autonomous municipalities to later settle down in San Cristobal de las Casas where she cofounded ''La Casa de las Flores'', a non-profit dedicated to educate, feed and care for the marginalized children living on extreme poverty in the streets of her city. After graduating from Nursing school she enrolled in Biotechnology and Astrophysics.
Luisa Casati: The Living Work Of Art
She was born in 1881 as Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman, grew up in Italy and was raised by a family who had made its fortune in the cotton trade.
This woman was extravagant and extraordinary but most of all bizarre. So much so that painter Augustus John once claimed "She should be shot, stuffed and displayed in a glass case".
She survived on a diet of gin and opium. Her skin was bleached paper white and her pupils remained dilated all day long thanks to the poisonous drops of belladonna that she applied to her eyes. She wore black kohl around her eyes, with false eyelashes and strips of black velvet glued to the lids.
Her parties where the most flamboyant of the time and she would walk into the room with dresses made out of lightbulbs, peacock feathers and covered in chicken blood.
Little before she died, back in the 1950s, she moved to a one-bedroom flat near Harrods, believing she was capable of communicating by telepathy. She stopped writing cards and letters, and spent her days indulging in spiritualist sessions with her few remaining friends.
