violent delights

aesthetics for swelling sea

[animus-inviolabilis]

Cobra Pefume Bottle

René Lalique

1920

[fashion-runways]

HUSSEIN BAZAZA Fall/Winter 2019

[sartorialadventure]

Christian Dior, spring 1998 haute couture (click to enlarge)

[thefugitivesaint]

Hannes Bok (1914-1964), ‘Beauty’s Beast’,  ’'Weird Tales’’, Vol. 35, #9, 1941 Source

[artemisiasea]

[oxidi]

egyptian cobra earrings

[luxe-pauvre]

[iopanosiris-deactivated20210713]

Piero Di Cosimo, Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci (detail), c. 1480

[xshayarsha]

“She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition. Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness”

— Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; The Lady of the House of Love.

[theartcalledfashion]

Elie Saab | Haute Couture Fall 2017

[radraconteur]

TO EVERY WOMAN WHO DIED UNDER THEIR GAZE.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Paulos, tr. by Andrew Miller, from “Greek Anthology; Epigrams,” publ. c. 1918

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Medusa keeps on encompassing my heart.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. September 1907

[thatsbelievable]

[daphnaea]

i s i s

egyptian goddess of fertility and motherhood

[notordinaryfashion]

Guo Pei Haute Couture Fall 2019

[alighixri]

dolce and gabbana alta moda

[equatorjournal]