red. red. red.

“Sometimes she walks through the village in her little red dress all absorbed in restraining herself, and yet, despite herself, she seems to move according to the rhythm of her life to come.   She runs a bit, hesitates, stops, half-turns around… and, all while dreaming, shakes her head for or against.   Then she […]

Elegante’

Poppies *She is so soft, so wing, so gone, so love. — César Vallejo  Selected Writings   Footsteps tr. by Clayton Eshleman * Breakfast at Tiffany’s * Romantic Soft Colours & Gilded Boiserie in Paris Instagram page of Cara Fitch @trillefloral * The Disguiser via:inkxlenses * Princess Yue   Saiid Kobeisy Fall/Winter 2018 * Richard Peake the Elder […]

House Beautiful: Simply Sublime Sophistication

Inside Designer Darryl Carter’s Sophisticated D.C. Townhouse darrylcarter.com Renowned designer Darryl Carter bought his Washington D.C. home in 1997 in part for its unusual flat-front Beaux Arts facade. It was once the grand home of the chancellery of Oman. “The bones were there, but the space needed obvious cosmetic changes,” says Darryl. “And of course there was […]

Ballet Beautiful

Serenade    New York City Ballet   Oksana Skoryk: Giselle.   The Mariinsky Ballet   Olesya Novikova and Konstantin Zverev rehearsing Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand   © Svetlana Avvakum.    Oksana Skoryk: Giselle.   The Mariinsky Ballet   Nika Tskhvitaria  in The Awakening of Flora Olesha Novikova rehearsing Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand   © […]

Oh, Oh, VALENTINO

Simply stunning. PARIS, FRANCE VALENTINO SPRING 2019 HAUTE COUTURE COLLECTION “The collection was indeed transportingly beautiful, a triumph of audacious color, flawless workmanship, and bravura statements for night leavened with glamorous and insouciant real-life propositions for day.”   – VOGUE Visit:  ArtPassionZsaZsaBellagio