A Fashionable History

28. Lover of art, history, fashion, philosophy, and space. ✨

[autumnoiir]

[bebs-art-gallery]

La Nuit (before 1937)

— by Auguste Raynaud

[102runway]

Daks Fall-Winter 2016

[rosesanguineum]

"As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force."

- Inferno, Canto II (The Divine Comedy).

https://instagram.com/thecrimsonflower

[die-rosastrasse]

Vladimir Borovikovsky

Russian, 1757-1825

The Archangel Gabriel , ca. 1800s (detail)

[laurapetrie]

Audrey Hepburn looking like a princess at the premiere of The Nun’s Story

[simena]

Nick Alm (detail)

[themakeupbrush]

Dior Spring 2021 Couture: “Le Château du Tarot”

[annaslapek]

Sancta Hedvigis de Silesia, ora pro nobis.

Kamień Śląski, Poland

[lionfloss]

18th Century Italian Blue Celestial Geode Hearts

[fymodernflapper]

Victorian Tear Catchers

During the Victorian era, mourners sometimes collected their tears in gold decorated “tear bottles” to keep as a remembrance for the next of kin. It has also been said that the widows would go to the grave on the anniversary of the first year of death and sprinkle the tears on the grave to signify the end of the first year of mourning.

[oatymilks]

shannon elle

[nobrashfestivity]

Eye Miniatures, late 1700s

Various unknown artists, England

PMA

[bethanydelleman]

These were most often given as gifts to lovers, as far as I have read. Kind of creepy, but also cute!

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

oil on canvas painting, IDYLLE (1884) by Gustav Klimt

[victoriassecrettangel]

[foxeia]

Tatiana Vasilieva

[princess-lointaine]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0uyYNPv0Ro/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==