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Silver filigree & jade hinged bracelet from China; circa 1900

skirt by akomb

Female torso, likely Nefertiti. Amarna period (c. 1349–1330 BC)

Kate Moss for Vogue in 1999 Chanel Haute Couture // photography: Annie Leibovitz

• Nosegay fan

Maker/Designer: S. Lévy (19th century, French); Marie Vincent (19th century, French)

Culture: French

Date: ca. 1898

Medium: Silk with wood sticks

Kasa no Iratsume, from a poem titled "Look at my keepsake and think of me," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

black silk top by gucci

Jean Paul Gaultier - Spring 1994 RTW

“I see you there, my soft body of moon and dew,”

— Paul Valéry, tr. by Hilary Corke, from The Collected Works; “Fragments of the Narcissus,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Ocimar Versolato - Spring 1999 Couture

Maria Denise Dessimoz, The Inevitable Anguish of Desire

“The path of tenderness is endless.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Paul Batchelor, from “Orchard,” wr. c. June 1917 (via violentwavesofemotion)

from @rebekahkosonenbide on ig . "sculpture study in fine metal made in .925 sterling silver, 2025. In private collection."

“—she was part of his body and part of his mind, they belonged to each other, both wanderers, both fugitives, cast in the same mould.”

— Daphné du Maurier, Frenchman’s Creek (via antigonick)

“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself did I know who I really was.”

— Sade Andria Zabala

Belladonna of Sadness by Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973.

Monica Bellucci by Alan Foreman, 2003

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