Monday, 16 January 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
Sleeping Beauties
Did you know that sea otters link arms so that they don't drift away from one another when they sleep?
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Friday, 6 January 2012
A World Without Eve
The photographer Eve Arnold has died aged 99. The war photographer Robert Capa said that her work: "falls metaphorically between Marlene Dietrich's legs and the bitter lives of migratory potato pickers."
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| Eve had known Marilyn Monroe for ten years by the time she photographed her on the set of The Misfits. |
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| Arnold photographed Marlene Dietrich here at the Colombia Road recording studios in 1952. Arnold notes: "It was a wet and cold November night and work could only begin at midnight, at the advice of Marlene's astrologer. |
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| Arnold took this shot of a bargirl in a brothel in the red light district of Havana, Cuba in 1954. |
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| A story shot for Queen focussed on the lives of four girls sharing an apartment. |
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| Eve Arnold (1912-2012) |
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Gatsby Fever
Has anyone else noticed the plethora of drop waist dresses creeping onto the scene recently?
As a girl with no waist I'm loving this look and can't help but think it may be due to the remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I know the book is loved by many but I found the characters too selfish & tiresome. But with Baz Luhrmann directing it'll be a visual feast.
And the clothes, the clothes will be incredible.
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| The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann Release date 25th December 2012 |
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Kasia Struss for Etro Spring 2012 |
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Prada Spring 2006 Ready-to-Wear
Behati Prinsloo, Freja Erichsen, Gemma Ward & Tanya Dziahileva
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And if Polly Bean's doing it, then it really must be on trend.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Flutterbye London
I've escaped London for a few months (good riddance to the burglars who thieved from my studio over Christmas. Shame on you.) I am itching to start painting and everywhere I look I'm inspired.
I cannot wait to begin and a little bit of Peter Doig and Gemma Ward are wonderful starting points.
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| Peter Doig 'Man Dressed as Bat', 2007 |
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Gemma Ward for Alexander McQueen, Fall 2006
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Gemma Ward by Patrick Demarchelier for Vogue Paris
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