Ex - Out / Patria - Fatherland

S. Eclectic expat ex-lawyer. London-based, Cambridge educated, US raised.

[soracities]

“My lips seek yours…like spring.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from ‘My Ear Attends to You’

[frostedmagnolias]

English Embroidered Mull Dress

c. 1815

Whitaker Auction

[europeanarchitecture]

Wells Cathedral, U.K.  (by stevecadman)

[22iw]

[weltenwellen]

Buttercream Joy Sullivan

[inemi]

[lacetulle]

Georges Hobeika | Fall/Winter 2026 Couture

[themakeupbrush]

Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2026

[sumfiend]

iran by isabella killoran

[soleil-de-matin]

“True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.”

— Isabella Rossellini

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Silver relief of Jupiter, Roman, 1st-2nd century, from the J. Paul Getty Museum

[orchidblack]

Home within Home within Home within Home within Home by Do Ho Suh.

[modelsof-color]

Lineisy Montero for Oscar de La Renta Pre Fall 2026 Campaign

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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed. Many people know about camera angles now, but not so many know about sentences. The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive. The picture tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what’s going on in the picture.”

— Joan Didion, Why I Write (via troykelleher3)

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sophia ippoliti

[lilliescult]

portland art museum

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RVDK Ronald van der Kemp Fall 2026 Couture