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The Glamorous Life Please

“I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.”    ― Marilyn Monroe Dom Perignon  Ann Street Studio Le bellezze della Reggia da La Venaria Reale Tramite Flickr:  via:judithdcollins […]

fabuleux

“Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me.” — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath    via:arrestus * * *   “Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me.”   — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath  […]

Isn’t it Glamorous?!

The chandeliers in the Royal Opera at Versailles. Karlie Kloss / Vogue Uk October 2010 by Tim Walker Woody Allen, Manhattan Wow– Stunner. Naeem Khan Spring-Summer 2016 Collection Moissonnier Frères from France. Marchesa S/S 2016 Collection Jean Patchett by Erwin Blumenfeld _ Vogue, January 1950. Veranda Fab Tux via:bellisvintage The chandeliers in the Royal Opera at […]

Men and Bulls

via:clubrogernimier     Bullfighting , also known as tauromachia or tauromachy , is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Latin American countries in which one or more bulls are fought in a bullring. Although a blood sport, by definition, some followers of the spectacle prefer to view it as a ‘fine […]

Glamorous Life

The Lanesborough, London   Gareth Pugh S/S 2016           “He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn’t seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he’d shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.”  […]

sugar, sugar

“She pours sugar on her life  and drinks the artist’s marrow  in the bone of her glass and she lives.”    ― Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum * * Trolli ‘Strawberry Puffs’ review by The Joy Of Caking via:huffingtonpost.com * “When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup […]

Charming Home

“If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.”    ― Robyn Griggs Lawrence, The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty       my-nata-li.tumblr      photographer Helen Norman     The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros       Love it     […]

An American in Paris

    Ralph Lauren     An American in Paris   Ann Street Studio NYC       Jamie Beck, Ann Street Studio:   “I had heard about Ralph’s, Ralph Lauren’s restaurant on the famous Boulevard Saint German in the Latin Quarter of Paris, and when I walked through the archway I knew this was the place I had […]