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Ballet Gorgeous

Gorgeous backstage photography of the dancers from The Cape Town Ballet by photographer Lar Rattray. * Photographer Lar Rattray: “I know I’m not alone in saying that I’ve always been drawn to what happens ‘behind the velvet curtain’. It’s one of those inexplicable childlike fascinations… so I literally leapt at the chance to go backstage with a friend […]

yours, yours, in everything and always

  “Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers.”   — Iain S. Thomas     Thimble Hall, Derbyshire, England     Henri Matisse’s illustration for Baudelaire’s poetry collection, Les Fleurs du Mal. via:openculture     via:domus-aurea2         “It is so much safer not to feel, […]

French Home Fabulous

PRIVATE HOUSES OF FRANCE: LIVING WITH HISTORY   Author:  Christine de Nicolay-Mazery Photography:  Francis Hammond * * by Jennifer Boles:  The Peak of Chic * “Moving on to France…. I’m an ardent fan of author Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery, whose books give readers an insider’s view of life in aristocratic French residences. Although the concept of her […]

It’s all GLAM

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”   – Amanda Cross   CHANEL Ann Street Studio     via:cardashians         “My grandfather,  Frank Lloyd Wright,  wore a red sash on his wedding night.  That is glamour!”   – Anne Baxter   *   so […]

SIMPLICITY

  “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy  *   Roset .     via:loveminimalstyle       “SIMPLICITY IS THE KEYNOTE OF ALL TRUE  ELEGANCE.”   – COCO CHANEL       frosya       “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” […]

HAUTE COUTURE UNIQUE

It’s kind of like, “I don’t how to put it all together?!”  No worries… anything goes. Just piece together however –  in any which way – and here you go, Haute Couture. (wink)     MAISON MARGIELA ARTISANAL FALL 2015 HAUTE COUTURE     PARIS FASHION WEEK                    I […]