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I spent the past three months building a house with your voice in it. antique doily, colored pencils, gouache, beads.

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newest additions to the button collection.

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I love London because I love you.

5 more hours til my flight back to the US.

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the most beautiful book spread I’ve ever seen.

Flounce (detail). Bobbins. ‘Blonde’. Spain, Barcelona area, 1830-60

Polychrome silk and gold thread 45 x 410 cm Paris, collection Mmes Carmen Martinez and Viviane Grimminger

The decoration is of cornucopiae, flowering branches of convolvulus, narcissi, roses, pansies and lupins, sprinkled with butterflies, and with a border of leaves and nuts.

The cornucopiae and ears of wheat are worked in gold thread: the ground is in black silk.

This lace belonged to the family of the sculptor Julio Gonzalez, a friend of Picasso.

Book is Lace by Anne Kraatz.

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I’m gonna cut my hair and give myself a chin length bob when I come back to nj on Thursday

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vanilla, pistachio, jasmine, ‘Marie Antoinette’

from laduree.

fortnum & mason macarons are better though.

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Vivienne Westwood knitwear from Spring 1994 RTW and ‘On Liberty’ AW 1994 will always be on my mind.

The silver wedding dress has a permanent place in my brain.

Images from the Vogue Runway app.

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button images off historical garments for auction that I love.

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fascinated by the marriage of eastern and western fashion influences in the 19th-20th century.

Dress made of kosode fabric embroidered in white silk with floral patterns. Of the rokumeiken era. 1880s.

Images courtesy of

バッスル・ドレス 文化遺産オンライン

白綸子に菊・桜・牡丹・唐団扇柄を刺繍と型しぼりで装飾した小袖地を用いて仕立てたドレス。<BR/>11代鍋島直大の継室栄子着用の夜会服。スカートの後ろ部分にふくらみのあるスタイルのドレスが鹿鳴館時代に流行した。栄子のバッスルドレスはこの他に...

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Thinking about: Alexander McQueen for Givenchy A/W 1999-2000.

Brown chiffon, satin and taffeta dress with Lesage embroidery and glass buttons with encased dried foliage.

Courtesy of Kerry Taylor Auctions.

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antiquated wolf collar

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starting now, exclusively collecting antique black chantilly lace.

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semper desiderari

silk hand embroidery on a shirt I crocheted and sewed last summer of my dead dog

pencil drawing of my dead dog.

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walk back w Ivanna from nando’s on leytonstone road

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Pegasus button

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vanilla, earl grey, crème brûlée

from fortnum & mason

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silver plated star tea strainer from fortnum & mason