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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Vintage Clothing and Shoes






















































































If you love vintage clothing and you love shoes.

You must vist Jane Aldridge of Sea of Shoes.

Above: Jane wearing a Comme des Garcons Chiffon skirt, a vintage satin blouse, and a vintage Dolce and Gabanna belt and Miu Miu shoes from fall 2007.

Below: To die for Dolce and Gabanna surreal wedges.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Clear, Cheery Colour for Lips and Nails







38 Years Ago....
From Vogue British November 1971

Bright red lips and nails....today's reds are fresher, clearer, sheerer, and to get the best of them, Charles Revson has created two great new reds in Ultima II Lipstick and nail enamel Soiree red, cool and clear; tres red, zingy with a torchy note. Lively, dramatic sure-fire on lips and nails. Wrap coat in red fox paw with red fox collar, Bill Blass for Revillon; Adolfo hat. Saks Fifth Avenue, New York.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Customer Appreciation Event - Now thru Dec 13, 2009



Here kitty, kitty, kitty

Just saw this fab pantera ring at, http://becauseimaddicted.net/2009/11/roar.html

I'm so in love with it.


















Available at http://carolinesbloppis.blogg.se/2009/november/panterringar-300-kr.html

Because, I'm all about bling, bling!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

A conversation with myself: She is the Goddess. She is the Sheba




She is the Goddess. She is the huntress of the forest. She is (the) Sheba. But, look she is the animal. She is the earth and forest among us. Born Vera von Lehndorff, she is known as Veruschka. She was the world’s first supermodel, a playmate of Hollywood stars and a pioneer in the art of body painting. Whose far out features dominated fashion magazines in the late ‘60s. With her bold statement. And thus she became what she is. Leaving a lasting impression in the fashion world.

Quotes
"I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.'" "I was always being different types of women. I copied Ursula Andress, Brigitte Bardot, Greta Garbo. Then I got bored so I painted myself as an animal,"


This statement really makes me smile. Asked if she misses the glamour of modeling, she looks down her wide, flat nose unselfconsciously:
Quotes
" No. I have my own drama and glamour anyhow. As long as I am here, it is not gone."


But what really states of whom she is this quote on her website http://www.veruschka.net/


"...the desire to hide, to be camouflaged, to escape human appearance, to be an animal, an object, not a person, the desire to punish the self, to dissolve the self into the world, to be striped naked, to pertify the body, to become only matter.”

susan sontag (Fragment of an Aesthetic of Melanchalie)






Video of Veruschka in Africa with Peter Beard