25 August, 2012

Magister Dixit:


"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles."

Audrey Hepburn

Strike a Pose


22 August, 2012

Accessorizing

 María Cristina de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, Queen of Spain. Vicente López y Portaña. 1830.

20 August, 2012

Felipe III of Spain. Juan Pantoja de la Cruz. 1603.

15 August, 2012




Quo Vadis?



The Distribution of the Eagle Standards (details). Jacques-Louis David. 1810.
Coronation of Ferdinand I of Romania. 1922.

Pompa Vaticana


"I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway."

- Karl Lagerfed

Accessorizing


 Maria Amalia of Saxony by Louis de Silvestre. 1737.

Magister Dixit:


"Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that."

John Galliano



08 August, 2012

 Hermaphroditus asleep. Bernini, 1619.

07 August, 2012

Requiescat in Pace Anna Piaggi

 “It doesn't have to be Dior with Anna. She's always worn 1920s shoes with Dolce trousers and a vintage Patou coat and a plastic belt, and a ski pole for a walking stick and crazy blue hair and a funny hat. She's about the possibility of what fashion can be. It's not about chic, or a grand gesture, as it was with Diana Vreeland. With Anna it's about fun and interest and frivolity. It's her crazy jumble of things. But it's actually not at all crazy and not at all a jumble. It's very disciplined."

- Stephen Jones

04 August, 2012

Rex Lex


"I don't think dress should be an add-on. It should be an extension of who you are:"
- Daphne Guinness

01 August, 2012

Requiescat In Pace

"At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care - if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler."

- Gore Vidal

Accessorizing

Parade Bourgonet, Filippo Negroli, 1543
 Agostino Pallavicini by Van Dyck. 1621.