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sometimes i’ll be going about my day and then i’ll remember that in spanish they call their partner/soulmate “mi media naranja” (my half-orange) and i have to just. sit for a second

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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

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At Monday night’s Gilded Glamour-themed Met Gala, Kim Kardashian (and paramour Pete Davidson) swooped onto the red carpet to deliver the most talked-about look of the night. Kardashian arrived in Marilyn Monroe’s original, infamous “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress, the skintight and nearly transparent gown she wore to serenade John F. Kennedy, her rumored lover, in 1962.

In an interview with Vogue, Kardashian explained she’d borrowed the dress from Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Orlando, which itself had acquired the creation from Julien’s Auctions in 2016 for $4.8 million; the dress—originally sketched by Bob Mackie, then designed by Jean-Louis—is the most expensive ever sold at auction. In a press release, Ripley’s described the dress as “very heavy:” over 6,000 crystals adorn it, causing the garment to weigh in at around six pounds.

In the aftermath of the Gala, ire has started to brew forth amongst the fashion archivist community: several conservators of fragile garments, including the former Head Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, have expressed outrage that Kardashian went so far as to pull the original gown out of storage and wear it, thereby potentially damaging the garment.

“When I was the head of the Costume Institute’s conservation lab I had to swat off requests by people (including Anna Wintour) to have irreplaceable objects in the collection be worn by models and celebrities,” conservator Sarah Scaturro wrote in an Instagram caption.

A representative for the Met said the museum had no comment. The Daily Beast reached out to Scaturro, Condé Nast and Wintour for comment.

Scaturro’s criticism has been re-posted by Marjolein Koek, the conservator of textiles at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Madelief Hohé, a fashion curator at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands. (The Daily Beast reached out to Koek and Hohé for comment.)

“In my opinion, [Kim wearing the dress] was not a good idea,“ fashion historian Keren Ben-Horin told The Daily Beast. “It raises a lot of questions about ethics. Sarah raises very important points that this is one of a kind, historical garment that should not leave the museum. For conservators, there are a lot of things they consider even before they even take any action to restore the dress. Sometimes they might even leave sweat stains in, because it’s part of the integrity of the dress.”

Jesus fucking christ, I thought she was wearing a replica, not the actual fucking dress.

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“women in the rain” - marina abramović, balkan erotic epic

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Anyways whatever i’m haunted by this

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u can b my silly rabbit n i will b ur sensible hare

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Home, Scotland

© Niall McDiarmid

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Shapes of things, Chong Chen

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french love notes

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'Gloomy Lady' by Charles Bukowski

She sits up there

drinking wine

while her husband is at work.

she puts quite 

some importance

upon getting her

poems published

in the little 

magazines.

she’s had two or

three of her slim

volumes of poems

done in mimeo.

she has two or three children

between the ages

of 6 and 15.

she is no longer

the beautiful woman

she was. she sends

photos of herself

sitting upon a rock

by the ocean

alone and damned.

I could have had

her once. I wonder

if she thinks I 

could have

saved her?

in all her poems

her husband is

never mentioned.

but she does

talk about her

garden

so we know that’s

there, anyhow,

and maybe she

fucks the rosebuds

and finches

before she writes

her poems

-Love Is a Dog From Hell/Poems 1974-1977 Charles Bukowski

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