encens

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SHOES

crazy
beautiful

COMING SOON

the marie turnor RENDEZVOUS satchel

PARIS

romain duris in paris, a beautiful movie, especially if you love paris as much as i do.

julliet binoche

melanie laurent

HALLOWEEN IDEAS

red riding hood and the big bad wolf aka victoire de castellane


anna dello rosso aka the good fairy

rick owens and michele lamy aka wolf man jack and batman

gareth pugh aka attack of the giant bugs - raaaiiid!
all at the vogue paris masquerade ball this month.

EVENT TENT

dreamy. here

GETTING DRESSED WITH ANNA DELLO RUSSO FOR VOGUE PARIS BALL//

GETTING DRESSED WITH ANNA DELLO RUSSO FOR VOGUE PARIS BALL//

EXQUISITE DESIGN

marian bantjes is a graphic designer who brings a personal touch to all her projects, whether commissioned or not. above is a laser sail boat designed for wallpaper magazine and wallpaper designed for maharam fabric co.
this is her new book, full of beautiful design pages and personal musings. it's on pre-order now at amazon. her work is reminiscent of gustav klimt, one of my favorite artists.


klimt - portrait of adele bloch-bauer at one of the best places to visit in NYC, neue galerie
and when you go, do stop in to the sabarsky cafe for a sachertorte and a viennese kaffee.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

i quite liked this wine so i wanted to remember the name, but when i looked at it, the name seemed to ring a bell.
benvolio was a character in romeo and juliette. and i started to think about names. for instance elizabeth, a common anglo/american name has typical wasp roots; 'gift of god', etc.
in israel, for instance, names are often derived from nature. like, tamar, a girl's name which is a palm tree.
why don't we have more names like that? for instance, fir, for a boy or pine for a girl...okay i take it back - there's olive, rose, lilly, mrytle.
but i like the native american names like totsi (hopi for moccasins) or nita (choctaw for bear)or how about mituna, miwok name for 'wraps salmon in willow leaves'.
strong names.
i guess english just isn't very poetic.

KINKY UNDERWEAR

they liked to have a bit of fun back in the day...from here

PICNIC BEAUTY SHOT

marie turnor was at a photo shoot in ny with photographer sandi fellman


the finished product. more to come.

AMAZING GARETH PUGH VIDEO OF SS/11

best viewed full screen. thanks alicia l.