Thursday 30 April 2009

when life imitates art




Ophelia by James Everett Waterhouse,1852


Maggie Rizer


Lady Agnew of Lochnaugh by John Singer Sargent, 1893


Amanda Laine


Elena Pawlovski by Amedeo Modigliani, 1917


Stella Tenant

source: artchiv.cz, style.com,lizziesiddal.com,tfs

Sunday 26 April 2009

atonement

























"The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation - it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him."
(p. 85)





"They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future. There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling, and the sound of fabric on fabric and skin on fabric as their limbs slid across each other in this restless, sensuous wrestling. ... They moved closer, deeper and then, for seconds on end, everything stopped. Instead of an ecstatic frenzy, there was stillness. They were stilled not by the astonishing fact of arrival, but by an awed sense of return - they were face to face in the gloom, staring into what little they could see of each other's eyes, and now it was the impersonal that dropped away." (p. 128)




"Nothing as singular or as important had happened since the day of his birth. She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty in a face which a lifetime's habit had taught her to ignore. She whispered his name with the deliberation of a child trying out the distinct sounds. When he replied with her name, it sounded like a new word - the syllables remained the same, the meaning was different. Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can ever quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same emphasis on the second word, as if she had been the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract." (p. 129)

excerpts from Atonement by Ian McEwan


i´m going to present my work about atonement for my english literature studies course on Wendesday and therefore I had to go through the book by Ian McEwan and movie by Joe Wright again.
words can not describe how much i love both.


source: book quotes, flickr

Saturday 25 April 2009

all about charlotte






















Initiales C.G. from Vogue Paris December/January 07.08
photographed by Mario Sorrenti
source: tfs - scans by Diorette

Thursday 23 April 2009

voices in the garden














Angela Lindvall by Phil Poynter for POP 7 Magazine AW 2003

source: foto_decadent

Tuesday 21 April 2009

sonia´s world
















i want my life to be like a sonia rykiel show - carefree, whimsical, full of fun, bright colours and beautiful dresses

have a great day:) !!!

sources: style.com

Sunday 19 April 2009

inspiration









"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."
Virginia Woolf

source: polyvore.com, flickr.com,bwgreyscale.com

Friday 17 April 2009

do you believe in fairies?




erdem S/S 09


kenzo S/S 09





erdem S/S 09


kenzo S/S 09 backstage





kenzo S/S 09


erdem S/S 09

Everytime a child says 'I don´t believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie


!don´t forget to keep clapping!

sources: frillr.com, missatlaplaya.blogspot.com, thefashionspot.com, style.com

Tuesday 14 April 2009

proust questionnaire - sofia coppola














Sofia´s answers for A Magazine 5

source : tfs, missatlaplaya.blogspot.com