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Valentino resort collection by Alessandro Michele

photographer: Marili Andre

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CDG hairstyles appreciation post

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Portishead: “Only You”

music video directed by Chris Cunningham (1998)

I recommend searching for his name, he directed super cool adverts & music videos

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Patty Chang 張怡, Fountain 噴泉 (1999)

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Some artworks by the South Korean artist Saehan Parc. Her art is truly unique and I highly recommend to visit her ig (https://www.instagram.com/saehan_parc?igsh=OWNmdjVpbnFwbGRr ) and look at her most recent works!

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Kiko Kostadinov RTW SS25.

“Catching flights, not feelings, could be a fitting way to describe Laura and Deanna Fanning’s vision for Kiko Kostadinov’s SS25 collection. The dynamic twin-sister duo focused on, as they wrote in their show notes, “women charging through the world to places real and imagined.” This season the pair chose to home in on the transience of time, place and movement.

Congregating at the American Cathedral of Paris, mosaics and inflated white Michelin Man-esque domes became the collection’s backdrop while an arrangement of atmospheric synths composed by Bill Kouligas danced through the salon.

Believing that the way we travel around the world moulds us into the people we are today, and the objects we collect along the way become emblems of those memories, bags ended up covered in embellishments. Elsewhere, badges and pins found their way onto the breasts of ’60s-inspired flight uniforms.

For shoes, boxing boots and ballet flats were strung together with two buttons. Hair took flight into beehive territory and berets slanted themselves clockwise while scarves stayed perfectly afloat as if caught in motion.

A Levi’s link-up made another appearance this season for the second time and manifested here as denim boiler suits, screen-printed with a custom stamp pattern. And as always with Kiko Kostadinov, you can count on a psychedelic experience when it comes to the colour palette. This season it was green, mustard, red, silver and black – and that was just one outfit. Kiko Kostadinov is on the move.”

- photographers

first seven photos: Chris Fragkou

last three photos: Ameya Eddison Stephens

- source

10magazine.com

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“Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet on the foot-warmer” by Chiara Rapaccini, oil on cardboard laid to canvas, 1995.

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Easy Street, Fremont, Wisconsin.

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“Sweetheart” toaster by Universal, 1929.

Landers Frary & Clark was one of the first American companies to manufacture electrical home appliances: in 1908 they introduced an electric coffee percolator and 1912 saw the release of an electric iron. These new products added to the company’s line of household products that they had marketed since the 1890s under the trade name “Universal,” suggesting the broad appeal of the wares. In the early 1920s the company claimed that six out of every ten households in America had at least one “Universal” product. This “Universal” toaster model E9410 was patented in 1929.

Fondly called the “Sweetheart,” the toaster has a feminine appeal with its earring-like handles, diamond-shaped body, and floral and arabesque decoration. The delicate design of this metal casing helped to shield the industrial nature of the electrical heating element behind it. Therefore the toaster became an attractive addition to the kitchen as well as to the dining table at the time of a meal. As early as 1917 Landers Frary & Clark appealed directly to female consumers and advertised that “The complete independence of the hostess in preparing meals directly at the table is one of the chief charms of this modern method of electrical table service.”

As American households were less dependent on servants for housework, food preparation, and hostess duties, an expanding market of electrical appliances eased work for the homemaker. This toaster not only exhibits an eye-catching design but also incorporates clever mechanics. The toaster cooks two slices at a time in cages that swivel out with the touch of the raised buttons at the base, one button for each side of the contraption. Releasing the button swings the cage back against the toaster. Each subsequent pushing of a button then makes the basket rotate in the opposite direction, so that both sides of the bread can be toasted. Thus the operation of this “Universal” toaster transforms the basic act of toasting bread into an impressive tabletop performance with which the hostess could have impressed her guests.

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Vince Collins, Life is flashing before your eyes (1984).

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Henni Alftan paintings

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Angie by Wang Lei and Jiang Kun for Harper's Bazaar China September 2023.

Makeup by Xu Beata. Styled by Frankie Zheng. Hair by Li Jiasu.

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'Happy Victims" by Kyoichi Tsuzuki (1999-2004) - Dive into the lives of Japan's most dedicated fashion lovers. Released in 2008, this book captures intimate portraits and stories of individuals who prioritize designer clothing above all else.

Witness their meticulously curated wardrobes and the joy they find in their sartorial investments.

"People find my photos of fashion victims interesting because such top-of-the-line items coexist with their less-than-fabulous everyday lifestyles, all very matter-of-factly. To see top people surrounded top goods by might make people jealous, while the lowest of the low scraping the very bottom of the barrel is merely painful to look at. But when things mix that normally don’t go belong together, now that’s the stuff of excitement and inspiration."

in order:

Tom Ford

Anna Sui

Versace

Dries Van Noten

Gucci

Junya Watanabe

Chanel

Cosmic Wonders

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Dino Buzzati, The morning visitor (1963).

“Daniela was cleaning the house when a strange guy arrived. He grabbed her, used violence against her, literally entered her, to the point of deforming her.”

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Vogue Japan may 2007, Superbowl, by Laurie Bartley.

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Whyn Lewis paintings

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Comme des Garçons s/s 1997 by Mark Borthwick for Purple Fashion