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Azzedine Alaïa Haute Couture S/S 2003

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Walerian Borowczyk - The Margin (1976)

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Comme des Garçons, 1985.

Ph. Paolo Roversi

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In all this world, no thing can keep its form. For all things flow; all things are born to change their shapes. And time itself is like a river, flowing on an endless course. Witness: no stream and no swift moment can relent; they must forever flow; just as wave follows wave, and every wave is pressed, and also presses on the wave ahead; so, too, must moments always be renewed. What was is now no more, and what was not has come to be; renewal is the lot of time.

— Ovid, (43 BC to 17 A.D), The Metamorphoses, Book XV (translated by Allen Mandelbaum). (Everyman's Library; September 10, 2013) (via Wait-What?)

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Vogue Italia, 80s.

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Bob Carlos Clarke (1950-2006) - The Agony & The Ecstasy, 1990

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Comme des Garçons spring/summer 1997

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Ph. Richard Kern

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Carol Christian Poell: Object Dyed Drip-Rubbered Leather Gloves

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He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlised satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in an embrace so lucid and encompassing it might be made of water. And shakes over me dead leaves as if into the stream I have become.

– Angela Carter, from “The Erl-King,” Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (Penguin, 1997)

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Charlize Theron for Esquire, around 2001

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Givenchy Fall 2005 Couture

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Dino Pedriali: Pier Paolo Pasolini in his house in Chia   (1975)

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Arne Norell: 'Ari' Lounge Chair (1966)