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attended Jan Wutkowski's Sculpted Lace Hat workshop this weekend at The Spruill Center. Love working and manipulating lace! Thank you Jan. #millinery

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I had to share this article. Great artist!

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Nick Cave comes to Atlanta in April 2015 More info here: http://www.fluxprojects.org/projects/12-coming-soon/107-resurrection

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Debra Rapoport knows how to embellish her life.

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Advanced Style, Ari Seth Cohen rocks!

Ladies know how to have fun!

(via ADVANCED STYLE: Debra Rapoport and Tziporah Salamon)

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I met this lovely stylish woman in Candler Park last summer. So chic!

Photo by Tina Kite

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A nice reference for hat styles.

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My grandmother Louise Nicholson. Always knew how to pose for a photo.

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A really fun video!

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I love this time of year when the Starlings are around.

Before starlings roost, their maneuvers create mesmerizing aerial displays. To achieve synchronicity, each bird shadows seven of its nearest neighbors. EARTHFLIGHT: Europe on NATURE on PBS (check local listings) or watch the full episode of EARTHFLIGHT online. 

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The Wind Portal at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Awesome

dionys moser photographs the alien like landscape of the ethiopian dallol hydrothermal field, a vast area of uplifted thick salt deposits affected by intense fumarolic activity, famous for being the only known volcanic area bellow sea level and for being both the hottest place on the planet, with average annual temperatures well above 30 degrees celsius, and the most colourful, with its pools of a hot sulfuric acid brine and ferrous multicolored salt deposits.

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Ari Seth Cohen is a photographer, blogger and publisher of Advanced Style. He is working on a documentary of the incredible, eclectric people he meets and befriends.

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Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity exhibition opens today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit presents a look at the role of fashion in the works of the Impressionists, from the mid-1860s through mid-1880s. Some 80 major figure paintings shown in concert with period costumes, highlight the relationship between fashion and art, during the years Paris emerged as style capital of the world.

Artists of the day, such as Manet, Monet, Renoir and more, sought to express the vibrancy of contemporary life through their stylish subjects. Fashion = Modernity for them. Parallels have been drawn between these painters and current streetstyle photographers/bloggers, the premise being bloggers are now the ones capturing current contemporary urban life through their photos. Check out the Sartorialist viewpoint here.

Two galleries are devoted to the White Dress and the Black Dress, quite interesting that the importance of these 2 fashion staples started over 150 yrs ago. Black dress emerged at this time, away from being a symbol of mourning to become a symbol of elegance and worldly sophistication.

Black being my personal favorite, I was drawn to Lady with Fans, a portrait of Nina de Callias, by Manet. As opposed to the prissy white dresses, now here is someone who looks as though she knows how to enjoy life. The painting was considered scandalous at the time, to express her bohemian artistic nature, and Nina’s estranged husband forbade the painting be shown.

My favorite gallery is Spaces of Modern Life, where the artists start to capture their subjects on the street, at the theatre, during activities of daily life. The similarity rings out to me, the way the fashion world presents itself today… very inspiring show. Anyone with a passion for fashion, and an interest in historical background, will enjoy seeing this. The garment samples on display are often the exact ones shown in the paintings.

Exhibition Dates: Feb 26 - May 27, 2013. For more info see MetMuseum.org.

photos: Michele K. (press preview Feb 19)

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Colleen, is a local, Atlanta designer who always intrigues with her new inventions of wearable planters. I want one! Check these out.

Rings dyed and varnished.

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"Everybody [milliners] puts their heart and soul into [hat making] it. It's them – if it wasn't a piece of them, it wouldn't be any good. That's what makes Londoners, everybody puts their heart and soul into it.