Shalimar

Billie Holiday, by Charles Hewitt The LIFE Picture Collection Getty

eden corset in chocolate // creepyyeha

Geoffrey Preston Sculpture

Backstage Christian Dior Haute Couture ss 2016. Photo, Chloe Le Drezen, Dazed.

thinkin about a baby of my acquaintance & how when her parents are hanging out & chatting, she’ll almost fully participate in the conversation–politely watching who’s talking, saying something approx the same length & tone of what her parents are saying, occasionally using a questioning cadence & looking at someone specific for an answer, laughing when they laugh–doing everything except actually using any recognizable language

this baby also once tipped me a granola bar at work. she’d been watching everyone in line very closely & when it was her parent’s turn, at exactly the right point in the transaction for a tip, she pickpocketed her mom’s granola bar & shoved it in the tip har

This baby has better social skills than me

This baby has better social skill than this entire antisocial media site.

this baby has better social skills than my baby good for her

i once took an uber driven by an eccentric older gentleman who told me about his young man’s travels in nepal. he said that in a town too small for any formal hospitality, he had been hosted overnight by a nepali family who spoke no english. he spoke no nepali. i asked what they did all night. with an air of matter of factness, he said they shared drinks and talked. “there we sat,” he said, “sipping i’m not sure what. it was white, and strong. and they’d tell me a story in nepali. didn’t get a word. but i could tell when they’d finished and we’d all laugh together. then i’d tell a story in english. they didn’t get a word. but when i finished, we all laughed together. lovely night. lovely, lovely people.” i think this baby gets it

Robert Mapplethorpe

Blue Rose

1987

Color Photogravure

Dressing Gown

1930s

The Victoria & Albert Museum

Black Covered Antique Books

La notte (1961), Michelangelo Antonioni

“Phoenix” by Paquin, fall/winter 1949

From Tessier-Sarou

Dining Hall, Buda Castle, Budapest.

i remember that time you told me you said "love is touching souls" surely you touched mine 'cause part of you pours out of me in these lines from time to time oh, you're in my blood like holy wine

yeah yeah yeah mortifying ordeal of being known and all that but sometimes a friend mentions something about you that you didn’t think was noticeable and it feels like your heart is being cradled in their hands

from @modelofrunway on ig .

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon