The madcap is a dreamer

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Jane B. par Agnès V. (Agnès Varda, 1988)

[un-lunario]

Jane B. par Agnès V.

Dir. Agnès Varda, 1988

[halfdayss-deactivated20240229]

[la-femme-toujours-la-femme]

Kees van Dongen

[anticbrvtalist]

Castelgrande Bellinzona. A combination of Brutalist architecture and a medieval site in Switzerland. Arch. Aurelio Galfetti

[antigonick]

Tom [came] from two roots. One was thinking about the sort of lunks I've occasionally seen powerful women choose as partners. Plausible manly men with big watches and a soothing affable manner. That mixed with the deadly courtier, a more eighteenth-century figure, minutely attuned to shifts in power and influence, an invisible deadly gas that occurs in certain confined places and rises to kill anyone unwise enough not to take precautions. A hanger-on sustained by some Fitzgeraldian illusions about the world, a sense that perhaps the rich really are different from us and a romantic ambition to make it in New York City.

Jesse Armstong, in his Introduction to Succession: Season One, The Complete Scripts

[velvet--sunsets]

[thestandrewknot]

Elements of the original corsage girdle from Empress Eugénie of the French’s ‘Feuilles de Groseillier’ parure, by Bapst (1855).

[missveronicalakes]

Rare photo of Veronica Lake in the 1940s.

[dollypopinspiration]

anothermag.com Why S/S18 Was an Unlikely Paean to Plastic

[dolerme]

“one wild summer“ by edwin zhang for nylon china aug 22

[hundredsofsmallbirds]

the beach boys were right. it would be nice. [tearing up] it really would be fucking nice

[lissar-deactivated20201117]

“When identity is derived from projecting an image in the public realm, something is lost, some core of identity diluted, some sense of authority or interiority sacrificed. It is time to question the false equivalency between not being seen and hiding. And time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? Going unseen may be becoming a sign of decency and self-assurance. The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, propriety, autonomy, and voice. It is not about retreating from the digital world but about finding some genuine alternative to a life of perpetual display. It is not about mindless effacement but mindful awareness. Neither disgraceful nor discrediting, such obscurity can be vital to our very sense of being, a way of fitting in with the immediate social, cultural, or environmental landscape. Human endeavor can be something interior, private, and self-contained. We can gain, rather than suffer, from deep reserve.”

— Akiko Busch, How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency. [bold text added by me.]

[gatabella]

Candice Bergen by Mark Shaw, New York, July 1964

[detournementsmineurs]

“Aigrette Colibri” en or, argent, rubis, diamants et plumes créée par Joseph Chaumet (circa 1890) - qui peut être portée aussi en broche - tirée des collections Chaumet, présentée dans le cadre de la “Promenade pour un Objet d’Exception” organisée par le Comité Montaigne autour du Triangle d’Or de Paris, septembre 2014.

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

these customizable library card necklaces are making me lose my mind

[anitapallenberg]

Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell, 1984)