The Altar

[sartorialadventure]

Valentino, fall 2015-16 couture, Vogue Italia

[arborescente]

[arborescente]

[moroccanmanga]

Aouinate

José Tapiró i Baró

[coutured-archived]

Zuhair Murad Haute couture Fall/Winter 2018-2019

[finita-la-commedia]

“I love you. Infinitely and inexpressibly. I’ve woken up in the middle of the night and here I am writing this. My love, my happiness.” –  Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter to Vera (January 19, 1925), featured in “Letters To Vera” by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian, 1899-1977)

[down-the-rabbith0le]

[ingridbergman-deactivated202001]

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright.

[jueki]

Tokyo Vampire Hotel 2017 ’ 東京ヴァンパイアホテル ’ Directed by Sion Sono

[medievalthymes]

moodboard: tyche

↦ tyche was the goddess of fortune and prosperity of a city in greek mythology. she was the daughter of aphrodite and either zeus or hermes, although some sources referred to her as an oceanid, a daughter of the titans oceanus and tethys

[minyardy]

“How could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”

(archive moodboard for @patroklous)

[loumargi]

Zhao Kailin, from China

[adrasteiax]

(…) a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only,

Edgar Allan Poe, from Dream-Land in “The Complete Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe”

[markpeaced]

portrait of Sunni Colon

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Golden October declined into sombre November…

T.S. Eliot, from Poems & Plays: 1909 - 1950; “Murder in the Cathedral,”

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

“Cup and Cover in the form of a Partridge” Nuremberg, 1598-1602 CE [876x1500]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Her body was tortured with something it could not let out.

Jean Toomer, from “Cane,” originally published c. January 1923.