Yves Saint-Laurent Haute Couture Collection Spring/Summer 1971. Models Elsa, Dominique Pommier, Jacqueline, Barbara and Annie. Sandals by Roger Vivier.
Yves Saint-Laurent Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1971. Mannequins Elsa, Dominique Pommier, Jacqueline, Barbara et Annie . Sandales de Roger Vivier.
Greetings. I am Dahl— ... ahem. I am the Wanderer of the Dagger Society. It is a pleasure of mine to have you here in my so-called blog.
I am an artist and a writer (an amateur, however). I am open to any sorts of requests your mind desired. As long as you respect the rules and boundaries I have set up, you are safe from the hands of fate.
Come, let me show you around.
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Fandom(s): The Young Elites
Have I Finished the Series?: YES / NO
Ask and Request Box: OPEN / CLOSED
Characters I will write for:
Adelina Amouteru
Violetta Amouteru
Enzo Valenciano
Raffaele Laurent Bessette
Gemma Salvatore
Dante
Lucent
Michel
Teren Santoro
Maeve Jacqueline Kelly Corrigan
Magiano
Sergio
What I Do: DRAW / WRITE / SHITPOST
Things that I Do:
Short Stories
Headcanons
Drabbles
Random Rants
Arts (Commissions are Disallowed!)
Genres I Allow:
Fluff
Angst
Cracks
Hurt/Comfort
Platonic Relationships
Polyamorous Relationships
Alternate Universes (AUs)
NSFW (only headcanons and imagines)
Genres I Disallow:
OC X Canon
Toxic Relationships
Controversial Topics
Fetishism
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Rules:
The default MC in my blog is gender-neutral, using they/them pronouns. If you want a specific gender and pronouns, then do not hesitate to tell me.
As an amateur writer, there will be times where the character is OOC (out of character) or the story is straight-up awful. Please consider this, as I am only inexperienced.
There will be moments when your request would take long to be published. If this happens, it simply means I am busy with academics or lacking motivation. Please consider this kindly.
There will be moments where I would have to decline your request. This is either because I cannot write something like this or you did not read what I DO and DO NOT allow. If you keep insisting on making me write that certain story, I will not hesitate to block you.
Since English is not my main language, there are times where my stories would contain incorrect grammars. If you happen to see these errors, please point it out for me to fix it.
I accept requests of fanarts. If you want me to draw something—either a character, your character, and many more—then I am more than willing to do it. Like said, commissions are NOT open.
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That is all for now. Thank you for reading. I shall be looking forward in meeting you once again someday. Have a good day, reader. Farewell.
Wols (Wolfgang Schulze) Poet Jacques Prévert and Jacqueline Laurent, Paris 1939
The mother does knitting
The son fights the war
She finds this quite natural the mother
And the father what does he do the father?
He does business
His wife does knitting
His son the war
He business
He finds this quite natural the father
And the son and the son
What does the son find the son?
He finds absolutely nothing the son
His mother does knitting his father business he war
When he finishes the war
He'll go into business with his father
The war continues the mother continues she knits
The father continues he does business
The son is killed he continues no more
The father and the mother go to the graveyard
They find this quite natural the father and mother
Life continues life with knitting war business
Business, war knitting, war
Business business business
Life with the graveyard.
-- Jacques Prévert, "Familiale" (Family Life) 1946, Translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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La mère fait du tricot
Le fils fait la guerre
Elle trouve ça tout naturel la mère
Et le père qu’est-ce qu’il fait le père?
Il fait des affaires
Sa femme fait du tricot
Son fils la guerre
Lui des affaires
Il trouve ça tout naturel le père
Et le fils et le fils
Qu’est-ce qu’il trouve le fils?
Il ne trouve rien absolument rien le fils
Le fils sa mère fait du tricot son père des affaires lui la guerre
Quand il aura fini la guerre
Il fera des affaires avec son père
La guerre continue la mère continue elle tricote
Le père continue il fait des affaires
Le fils est tué il ne continue plus
Le père et le mère vont au cimetière
Ils trouvent ça tout naturel le père et la mère
La vie continue la vie avec le tricot la guerre les affaires
Les affaires les affaires et les affaires
La vie avec le cimetière
Jacqueline Laurent as Francoise in Le Jour se Leve (1939). Jackie had 10 acting credits 1935-46 with a final uncredited part in 1965. Her one Hollywood film was Judge Hardy's Children (1938).
Yves Saint Laurent for Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 1959 Collection. Viscountess Jacqueline de Ribes wears "Macadam", gray woolen ensemble.
Photo Mark Shaw for Life Magazine at the Parisian home of Jacqueline de Ribes.
Yves Saint Laurent pour Christian Dior Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1959. Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes porte "Macadam", ensemble en lainage gris.
Photo Mark Shaw pour Life Magazine au domicile parisien de Jacqueline de Ribes.
Above: Sandra Church, Jack Klugman, Lane Bradbury, Ethel Merman, and Peg Murray in Gypsy.
Gypsy, the musical based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, opened at the newly-refurbished Broadway Theater on May 21, 1959. It had a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and music by Jule Styne. Originally, Sondheim had been slated to write the music as well as the lyrics, but Ethel Merman was nervous about entrusting the whole thing to such a young man (he was 29). Jerome Robbins directed and choreographed it.
Despite the title, the star of this show is Gypsy's mother, Rose Hovick, the stage mother to end all stage mothers. Often described as monstrous, she ruthlessly pushes her two young daughters into vaudeville, spotlighting the pretty blonde, June. But vaudeville is dying, and the girls are eventually forced into doing their act in burlesque theaters. It is there that one of the dancers persuades Louise, the "plain" brunette daughter, to consider striptease. She blossoms, of course, and becomes the famous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. Her sister runs away and becomes the actress June Havoc.
Above: left, Jacqueline Mayro as Baby June (doing split) and Karen Moore as Baby Louise (Uncle Sam). Right, Sandra Church as the adult Gypsy and Ethel Merman as her mother.
The score is chock full of what would become standards: "Let Me Entertain You," "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "You Gotta Get a Gimmick," among others, as well as the most exciting overture in all musical theater. But the crowning musical achievement was the show's final song, "Rose's Turn," which one critic described as a "quick-mix of aria, stomp, anthem, hymn, recitative, shout, [and] wail." It's also the essence of the integrated musical number.
Above: Ethel Merman and Maria Karnilova.. Right, Jack Klugman and Merman.
Gypsy is often mentioned when the question of Best Musical Ever Made comes up. In addition to a film and a television version, it has been revived on Broadway four times; it would have been five if not for Covid. The 2015 West End production, starring Imelda Staunton as a stunning Rose, was supposed to have transferred. But the production is available to watch on DVD.
All photos: Friedman-Abeles via the NYPL. Click/tap on each one to enlarge.
In 2021 the limited series on the career of designer Halston (Roy Halston Frowick, portrayed by Ewan McGregor) waltzed down Netflix's catwalk. Now we have at least three series chronicling the lives and careers of designers.
Currently on Disney+ in Europe is the exquisite CRISTÓBAL BALENCIAGA centering on, guess who? Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga, starring Alberto San Juan (Reyes De La Noche) as Balenciaga.
It's an interesting story about this enigmatic fashion genius that shows his steadfastness in his devotion to fashion to the sacrifice, some may say, of ethics due to the fact that while other fashion houses were shut down during Germany's occupation of some parts of France, he readily made clothes for the significant others of German soldiers.
The series also shines a light on Balenciaga's relationship with his creative partner and love-of-his-life Wladzio d'Attainville (played by Thomas Coumans).
Among the designers who appear or are name-checked in CRISTÓBAL BALENCIAGA is Christian Dior and Coco Chanel. These two fashion legends will appear in AppleTV+'s upcoming mini-series THE NEW LOOK with Ben Mendelsohn as Dior and Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel and takes place during Germany's occupation of France.
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THE NEW LOOK will feature covers of classics by Florence + and The Machine, Lana del Rey, The 1975, Perfume Genius and more.
Sometimes this year (at least I hope this year) will be KAISER KARL (apparently the title may be changed) starring Daniel Brühl as Kunty Karl Lagerfeld
centering on him as a 38-year old trying to break into the Parisian world of high fashion where he finds himself in competition with he finds himself in competition with French fashion giants like Yves Saint Laurent.
The only Yves Saint Laurent depiction worth a damn. RIP beautiful Gaspard Ulliel
What is fashion if there's no one to wear it? For example, the high society ladies that will be depicted in the upcoming installment of FX's FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS.
Hopefully this series will do justice to the mythos behind writer Truman Capote's nuclear fall out with the so-called Swans - a moniker Capote gave the socialites whose company he kept and whose secrets he didn't.
Playing Capote is Tom Hollander
Naomi Watts as Babe Paley, wife of CBS founder William S. Paley (which the annual PaleyFest is named after), Diane Lane as Slim Keith, ex-wife of famed director Howard Hawks, producer Leland Hayward amongst others; Calista Flockhart as Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Demi Moore Ann Woodward who got her place in society by being the wife of a banking heir,
Demi, that looks like a flamingo, not a swan.
Chloe Sevigny as Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali muse C.Z. Guest, Molly Ringwald as JoAnne Carson, ex-wife of late-night talk show host Johnny Carson and the only Swan who remained friends with Capote after his ouster from their social circle.