H O W T O W E A R A T R E N C H C O A T

floppy, but not sloppy

relaxed, but not wrinkled

cuffed, but not creased

gorgeous.

Jewels fit for LADY GAGA n' a chapel for SIR POE

These skull pieces by Dior (notice them in my previous post on the aways gorgeous Lara Stone)made me think of the Kostnice Sedlec in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletal remains of anywhere between 40,000 and 70,000 people. In the mid 14th century, the Black Death's death toll overflowed the cemetary with corpses;

according to legend, in 1511 the task of exhuming SKELETONS and stacking their BONESinTHE CHAPELwas given to a half-blind monk. The bones remained there until a woodcarver (and obvious artist) František Rint was given the task of arraning the bones-what he made is a morbidly gorgeous Baroque-esque body of art (pun intended)

La TENTATION du DIAMANT'

Rita Haworth nails,  Stark white nun habit, diamonds, n'  cleavage spilling over a corset...

FOTO.Cedric Buchet for PARIS Vogue. I think its brilliant.and OH! how fun are fashion and relgion (?) the fabulously odd couple ...

Lights in the night play with your eyes,

just like a girl in the light plays your heartstrings

like a sitarrrrrrr

Black and white foto above from a shoot I styled in February 2009

Hello :)

I used to fear the future if I was treading into it without a hand to fold around mine

unless I was skipping into it with sunshine and rainshowers like twinkling sprinkles on my drunken face.

I think I still do, that's why I want to document all of the beautiful, twinkling moments and thingamabobs I come accross. Maybe it will help helplessly hopeful fairies everywhere keep their bags of fairy dust full enough to fuel the onward flow of our beautiful days...

flutter on, little beauties.... ;)