Introduction The mid-Victorian era, also known as Grand Period, was full of interesting events and people. The Great Exhibition of 1851, usually referred to the Crystal Palace Exhibition, demonstrated the achievements in the world industry during the recent years. The size and richness of the exhibits impressed lots of people. However, such prosperity was available not to every inhabitant. After the husband of Queen Victoria, the organizer of the exhibition, died, lots of changes took place within different spheres of life. One of the brightest events of that period was the creation of the Aesthetic Movement. This movement was created by a group of really talented people: artists, poets, actors, and writers. There is no concrete date of the birth of the Aesthetic Movement; however, its appearance is dated in the middle of the 19 th century, between the 1870s and 1880s. This movement had lots on common with French Symbolism or Italian Decadentismo. The main purpose of Aesthetes was to create a strong opposition to Victorian style. It was a kind of revulsion to what had been created during the Industrial Revolution. The best-known representatives of the Aesthetic Movement were Oscar Wilde, William Morris, Edgar Allan Poe, and James Abbot McNeil Whistler. The Aesthetic Movement: Members and Their Principles The Aesthetic Movement started as a reaction against the Victorian style, which was characterized by the use of jewellery in order to demonstrate the social status and the possibility to have only expensive and qualitative things. William Morris, a British architect, was one of the first representatives of that movement, who started to disregard the Victorian preference of rich jewellery in favour of good craftsmanship and simple design. Morris tried to emphasize natural and not too expensive material. Usually it was stone, wood, and bricks of different size. William Morris was born in London, in 1834. From his early childhood, he was really fond of reading. He could start reading anything that came on his way. His passion to Waverly novels and Arabian stories would certainly influence his future occupation. It is necessary to admit that Morris was not only an artist. He was also good at writing, furnishing, and designing. One of his best works was Tulip and Willow (1873). The works of the Pre-Raphaelites also considerably influenced the Aesthetic Movement. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and Edward Burne Jones idealized the life of medieval times. Evelyn De Morgan was also one of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, whose works played a significant role in the history of the Aesthetic Movement. She started painting at 15. She truly believed that our life was too short, and art would be always eternal, that is why she wanted to devote her life to art in order to make something useful and be remembered. In 1889, Evelyn De Morgan created Medea. The Aesthetes were admired that work, its freedom and naturalness. There are so many representatives of the Aesthetic Movement, the works of which have considerably influenced the development of fashion during those times. “During the Aesthetic Movement, Americans realized that if they made their homes artful, they would make their lives better.” (Zukowski 7) However, not only pa