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[a-state-of-bliss]

Yasmeen Ghauri @ Christian Dior Spr/Sum 1998

[rosieandthemoon]

Lucien Gaillard, 1907

[modelsof-color]

Xiao Wen and Cong He by Elizaveta Porodina for Vogue China 20th Anniversary Issue

[kate-jam-and-diamonds]

by Thierry Le Gouès 1992

[a-state-of-bliss]

Elle UK Jan 1992 - Susie Bick by Mark Borthwick

[themakeupbrush]

Dior Spring 2021 Couture: “Le Château du Tarot”

[artfulfashion]

Erin Perise wearing Celia Kritharioti, photographed by Richard Phibbs for Town & Country UK, Summer 2021

[fashion-runways]

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[ccarygrant]

Marlene Dietrich in BLONDE VENUS (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg

[retailther4py]

selkie • the princess and the pea • "she feels everything"

[vintagehomecollection]

The rich lacquer red of the staircase hall acts as a beautiful foil both to the eighteenth-century plasterwork and to the selection of family portraits ranged in the hall itself, up the stairs and between half columns on the landing. Sometimes used for buffet meals, shooting lunches and children's parties, the hall also houses a much-used pianola beneath the stairs.

In an Irish House, 1988

[maureen2musings]

The evening sky whispers serenity

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[c0ppelia]

the eise eisinga planetarium in franeker, the netherlands, the oldest working planetarium in the world. located inside the former home of eise eisinga

[rherlotshadow]

The ruins of Haughmond Abbey, near Shrewsbury. The breath-taking remains of a large medieval Augustinian abbey.

[lily-of-elysium]

Illustration by Kay Nielsen from East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1914)

Source: Wikimedia Commons

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[maureen2musings]

Ranua, Finland

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