ballet mécanique.

aesthetics & inspiration for @ophaleia.

[vieneri]

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan

Daisy Buchanan, the golden girl. A breathless warmth flowed from her. A promise that there was no one else... in the world... she so wanted to see.

THE GREAT GATSBY

2013 | dir. baz luhrmann

[deforest]

GILDA (1946) dir. Charles Vidor

[cinematicsource]

GILDA 1946 — dir. Charles Vidor

[wildhearts-cant-be-broken-deact]

Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946)

[argentpalace]

“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered ‘Listen,’ a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Jacques Fath - Spring 1995 RTW

[no1-angel]

[bunney]

*takes gulp of vodka straight from the bottle* my day was fine

[velvetcloak]

Firefly Path, Saint Avangeline (ph: Elizabeth Elder)

[macrolit]

“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”

— Jane Hamilton (b. 13 July 1957)

[lacetulle]

Joli Poli Couture

[orpheuslament]

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

[velvetcloak]

marchesa | spring 2016

[velvetcloak]

marchesa | spring 2018

[velvetcloak]

mirror palais

[lunar-dancing]

“Something about her is so tempting to look at. Her anger has a childish aura as if she isn’t made of real evil; just a bratty princess playing with her toy fangs.”

—

[aneurins-barnard]

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER as LUCREZIA BORGIA THE BORGIA 3.08 Tears of Blood