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981026 . Bi . Scorpio

[goldcoasthoney]

[barbi3-bitches]

Anna Sui f/w 1997

[modely-way]

Rianne Van Rompaey for Vogue Paris, by Lachlan Bailey

[tulipsofthemorning]

and a wickeder, wickeder, wickeder witch that never, never was

[arthistoryvault]

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Love the Sentinel (detail)

[tistler]

germán gómez

[soft-lovely]

elaborate book covers

[artist-sargent]

Apollo and the Muses, 1921, John Singer Sargent

[anisadzh1]

[scheidungsgrund]

Undine rising from the waters, Marble statue by Chauncey Bradley Ives [1810-1894]

[itscolossal]

Elegantly Sculpted Busts by Massimiliano Pelletti Interpret Art History Through Imperfection

[thehiddenhill]

[vida-imensa]

Luke Abrahams  

[kafkasdiariies]

Lush greenery, marbles, antiques and mirrors, it’s Musée Jacquemart-André baby 🌿💚 ~ r.weltschmerz

[fashiontimeless]

Thierry Mugler Fall, 1996

[julietjardin]

18th Century German chatelaine scent bottle, hand finished crystal, inner stopper, ornate silver mounts of angels and putti. Silver and makers marks.

*Illustrated Scent and Scent Bottles by Edmund Launert

[fashionsfromhistory]

Dress

c.1850

Made of Chinese patterned silk, this dress uses an export textile in a Western garment. Arguably, Asian textiles were associated in the Western mind as much with private leisure as with ceremony. Many Eastern textiles entered Western dress first as intimate boudoir and other at-home garments such as robes and banyans, suggesting the qualities of exoticism and erotic mystery associated with far-off lands. The selvage at the back waist reveals Chinese characters, indicating the textile’s manufacture, and the flaring sleeves are what the West calls the pagoda style.

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