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fuckyeahchinesefashion

The baby swans at the Old Summer Palace fell asleep on their parents’ backs (cr 展扇轻摇)

history-of-fashion

1895 Afternoon jacket by House of Worth (attr. to Charles Frederick Worth and Jean-Philippe Worth)

silk, beads

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

free-my-mindd

Can I get a eta on “this too shall pass”.

fashion-runways

ROBERT WUN Couture Fall/Winter 2027 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

nubbsgalore

flamingos flying over tanzania’s lake natron, a salt lake which is home to three quarters of the world’s three million lesser flamingos, as well as toxic multicoloured extremophile cyanobacteria that thrive in water so hypersaline it would strip away human skin. for the flamingos, however, the tough skin and scales on their legs prevents burning, leaving them uniquely free to drink from the near boiling freshwater found from springs and geysers at the lake’s edges. (x, x, x, x, x)

fashion-runways

MET GALA "Costume Art" Exhibition 2026 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com The idea, curator Andrew Bolton said, is “to reflect on your own lived experience, hopefully to create a connection, empathy, compassion towards each other.” Not only does this interactive element transform a visit to the museum into a small voyage of self discovery, but it is a bodily experience that cannot be replicated digitally. This at a time when humans are being replaced by machines and AI anxiety is pervasive. “The whole show is structured around a typology of bodies, and these are bodies that you see across the museum when you encounter artworks,” Bolton explained. “The simple thesis for the show really is the fact that the dressed body is the connecting thread throughout the entire museum.” What you won’t see anywhere else at the Met are mannequins of diverse body types modeled after named individuals, like those commissioned for “Costume Art.” And this is transformative in many ways. As the scholar Llewellyn Negrin notes in her catalog introduction, not only do mannequins project a beauty standard, but their “dimensions often dictate the sizes of the garments shown, and the garments’ sizes correspond to the idealized proportions of the preferred mannequins, resulting in a mutually reinforcing process that perpetuates the privileging of culturally esteemed body types.”

buried-in-stardust

Using mortise-and-tenon joints to build an entrance way with 35m width × 6m depth. According to other sources, this is in Longnan, Gansu, and was built by 36 carpenters and 4 joinery experts over 6 months, costing around 5M RMB in total.

unusual-suspects

colorshow glassworks

wanderlust-in-my-soul

The Back Hug - a sign of both trust and protection. As a recipient it means someone literally has your back. As a giver it means you are willing to protect them from anything. (Part8/?)

Century Of Love

At 25:00 In Akasaka

Love By Chance - A Chance To Love

Khemjira

10 Things I Want To Do Before I Turn 40

Every You, Every Me

BL Drama No Shuen Ni Narimashita Crank In Hen

Love Begins In The World Of If

I Feel You Linger In The Air

Me And Thee

My favorite backhugs as part of my favorite bl-tropes-collection.

my-rose-tinted-glasses

Ah, almost forgot. Good morning!

FAKE FACT LIPS Episode 1

the-big-mood

At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes