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[public---mags]

The Spitfire | Shakira for Vanity Fair, November 2001

photographed by david lachapelle

[fortuneaday]

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

2011

[a-state-of-bliss]

Givenchy Haute Couture Fall/Wint 1999

[tobiasforms]

[ortut]

Celeste Roberge - Veiled Cairn

[ronbeckdesigns]

Roma Karun

(via Roma Karun Gallery)

[europeansculpture]

IVÁN LARRA (*1965) - Ma peau est tannée tous les jours

[metamorphesque]

I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live—if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.

Hayao Miyazaki on romance

[fungusamongusblog2]

Gillian Anderson

[sellos]

[apokrify]

Fossilized Sea Lily and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

[enchantedbook]

'Bear with me' by Thomas Theodor Heine, 1901

[viktor-sbor]

The Caucasian dagger Kama XIX century. A very unusual weapon, and a blade of a form completely uncharacteristic for the Caucasus. Steel, silver, enamel. Length 54,9, see Weight 354,4, Metropolitan Museum, New York.

[limerencs]

[sandmoonyelse]

Elegy of dark waters

[afvs]

1995 french open, france' in the "(un)mentionables" chapter of (un)fashion - tibor kalman (2000)