#orange louis

[berlinini]

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cr. @/louisarchive on tw

[stanharu]

FINALLY SOME S3 NEWS!!!

Quote from Orange Studio's Twitter:

BEASTARS IS BACK Coming 2024, 2 part final season will begin. The story of Legoshi transcends from school gates and ventures into the wild society- Only on Netflix

[nuveau-deco]

Cast and Chased Openwork Gold Brooch in the Form of a Grotesque Beast in a Trefoil with Foliage and Animal Masks. Designed by Jules Wiése (?) around 1840–1860 and made by Louis Wiése after 1890 in Paris, France. Measures at 3.9 cm in width. From The British Museum collection, museum number: 1978,1002.551

(Source: britishmuseum.org)

[hermit-frog]

All my conceptions, even my guilt and my wish to die seemed utterly unimportant, and I completely forgot myself and the barbaric scene that surrounded me. For the first time in my life, I was seen.

[delicatepointofview]

[insert all this time's verse "our eyes meet" right at this moment during the igtv]

[dwreader]

Emphasizing Louis's Beauty

I've talked previously about how Louis in the 2nd half of the season is rarely seen in suits anymore but what about the earlier episodes when he wears a wide array of colorful suits while he is still performing his role in human society? What stands out is how many vibrant colors and patterns we see him in vs. Lestat who is always in some kind of tan, gray or navy. A lot of this is simply historical record as vibrant colors were more typical of black male dress of the era and we see that Louis is trying to maintain appearances, but on the show his bright costuming always stands out from other background male characters black OR white (confirmed by the costume designer that his colors are like a flame drawing Lestat in) and the tailoring and color choices often stands in contrast to Lestat on screen next to him in a more traditional masculine (aka duller) color. I mean compare this to how romantic period dramas typically style the men and women.

Beyond the historical nods, which most tv viewers don't have detailed references to as there aren't many color images we have from that era, I think the show does a great job of connecting cultural references everyone can immediately pick up on (the Leydecker outfits were obvious examples). For example, if you think of a white stripey suit from the 1910s, the image that came to mind was probably Rose in Titanic. So even as Louis is projecting what was period standard masculinity, what the modern viewer is likely thinking of is a tailored suit worn by the female protagonist in one of the biggest movies of all time. These looks screams high fashion latest designs from Paris, decked out pampered princess of the ship ("prince of your district").

In the same vein, when you imagine an iconic green period costume you're probably thinking of Keira Knightley in Atonement. In fact if you google "green suit in period film" all the results are of women. Rarely are men put in these colors in period romances particularly. I mean I think they put Keira in that green dress simply because she looks incredibly beautiful in that color and that's also how I feel about Louis in his green outfit.

I've talked before about the use of red on Louis but looking at the actual context of when Louis wears red they are specifically scenes of lust (w/ Jonah), shame (the slutshamig w/ the soliders) or anger/revenge (killing the Alderman) and hello look at these!!

And this is really an exclusively female character trope where vivid color costuming is used to convey mood or emotion! When a man is angry or lustful in a film, he's never wearing red, he's just wearing a boring color like black or grey. Evil and goodness are conveyed by black vs. white costuming with men (i.e Lestat's evil black darth vader get up) but rarely any colors not on that b&w scale.

Also speaking of cultural references in costuming here's this again.

[best-character-named-x-poll]

have you done your daily click

[lingrimmart]

A glass of juice pls

[elceeu2morrow]

All Of Those Voices Global Streaming Event, LA [5.13.23]

[sunshineandlyrics]

🍹 Mystery solved! Louis was drinking a Blood Orange Margarita in one of his IG pics x x x

[louiswaindaily]

Louis Wain

[endverse]

louis de point du lac | interview with the vampire in the throes of increasing wonder

[deadpoetsgayvodka]

when you get to THAT part of a song and just turn the volume to max, push your earphones even deeper into your ears, relax your body and close your eyes to absorb it fully ??? out of the world experience me thinks

[classic-art-favourites]

Maria Theresa of Savoy by Lie Louis Perin-Salbreux, 1776.

[tuttocenere]

check out this incredibly faustcore cat painting

[jcksphotos]

Early morning fog.