who in the world is Lolita?

In 1955, Vladimir Nabokov’s most famous masterpiece went haywire – upon publication, it was banned nearly everywhere. The story of old Humbert Humbert’s doomed obsession with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze was certainly no love story, and literary critics everywhere mistook it to be perceived as such. It’s easy to see how such a controversial story would leave such a mark on literature, but nobody expected the next influence it would have on young society: fashion.

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