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[sovietpostcards]

“Thaw” by Leonid Popov (USSR, 1957)

[prinsez]

Alfred Stevens (1823 - 1903) The Letter (fragment)

[dahliaborne]

I, Maya Plisetskaya by Maya Plisetskaya // Princess Tarakanova by Konstantin Flavitsky

[vintageladyofthelowlands]

[bizarrelosangeles]

“Eat heartily and be beautiful. Dieting is the bunk. I hear nothing but talk about eighteen day diets wherever I go. But not for me. To live well and happily, one must eat well. Good eating does far more to make women beautiful than fasting.” – Lili Damita in 1929. Photo: 1929.

[ambitionzazastylist]

Lili Damita by Atelier Manasse. 1920′s. 

[wehadfacesthen]

Lili Damita in The Woman Between  (Victor Schertxinger, 1931)

[24hoursinthelifeofawoman]

1930′s

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Nella Regini Edna Best Lili Damita Louise Brooks Anita Berber Unknown French Woman Anaïs Nin Via Kasbah Salomè

[neapolis-neapolis]

Giardino dipinto (inizi I sec.), particolari, dalla Casa del Bracciale d'oro - Parco archeologico di Pompei, Napoli.

[24hoursinthelifeofawoman]

Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe

[mymindlostmefan]

Queen

25.01.1975 Melody Maker magazine

[fiere-violet]

[novelvoid]

“Friend.”

[jesusisababey]

What, you don’t beg for kisses and have sex dreams about ur old school friends? Pfft, grow up 😤

[ginkobirchfalls]

An addition

[gael-garcia]

More images of Ruth Negga as Hamlet at Gate Theater Dublin, (21 Sept-27 Oct 2018)

[sadnessdollart]

Portrait of a woman said to be Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Detail.

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, "From West Wind." Devotions

[luthienne]

“I’d spent the last three years trying to build up some kind of a skin, so I wouldn’t drip with blood every time I brushed up against something.”

— White Oleander, Janet Fitch (via decreation)