laugh and cry...

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry: to get my work done and try to love somebody
and have the courage to accept the love in return.

-Maya Angelou

Maison Martin Margiela F/W 2009  X  Model Jade Malle photographed by Davide Sorrenti for Marc Jacobs Detour March 1997

…...

tad carpenter-i can read

The further you walk...

The futher you walk away from your problems, the longer the walk back to fixing them.

— Unknown

Comme Des Garçons, S/S 1997

I don't care….

I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.

— Coco Chanel

 via a-state-of-bliss / French Elle Oct 1989 featuring Kirsten Owen by Friedemann Hauss

I have won….

i can read

I will overcome. I have won. Nobody can stop me. I'm doing it.

You should be less obvious….

You know, if you're going to stalk someone, you should be less obvious. 

― Kristin Walker, A Match Made in High School

Lara Stone in “La Dolce Vita”, photographed by Emma Summerton for Vogue UK January 2008

once you know….

Once you know some things, you can’t unknow them. It’s a burden that can never be given away.

— Alice Hoffman

Veiled Woman, 1910. Photographed by Imogen Cunningham

my heart

My heart feels so heavy and I don't know how to carry it.

-sharon dogar, annexed

Cicely Telman for Vogue Paris August 2007 by Max Farago

A lie...

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

-Thomas Fuller

Amber Ortolano

whatever comes...

Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.

— Papaji

Vogue Italia 1975

I...

I don’t want to be 

your entire world, no. 
I would be happy 

just to be your morning coffee, 

your hanging car keys, 
your wallet. 

Something seemingly 

insignificant, 

but if lost throws off 

your entire day.

Lucy Quin

Marcelina Sowa by Alix Malka, Numero #15 June 2008

nobody...

Nobody can save you but yourself - and you’re worth saving.

It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning - this is it.

— Charles Bukowski

Denise Grünstein

crush...

You are in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you.

And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills,

or shovelled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired.

You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him,

and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you,

like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body,

like you’ve discovered something you don’t even have a name for.
— Richard Siken, “Crush”
Kept, 2007. Photographed by Aneta Bartos

love...

Love lasts about seven years.

That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

— Françoise Sagan

Lisa Forsberg photographed by Marc de Groot for Jalouse November 2002

i feel frozen...

I feel frozen, standing, waiting for the lights to change. I hear nothing.

I feel irrelevant. I feel dreamy. It is almost dream like, self created silence.

— Daul Kim

Samantha Ypma for Ginza Japan August 2012 by Mitsuo Okamoto

SuTurno...

Wall Street Crash of 1929 provoked a spectacular growth of lipstick sales
as a quick remedy to cheer up those hard times. 

I love this new collection of scarves by SuTurno finds inspiration in those years, the 30′s glamour.

stop...

Stop telling me to follow my heart. It once led me to you.” 

― Iain Thomas

“Couture Memoirs”, Sasha Pivovarova by Paolo Roversi for Vogue Italia September 2007

Little Treasures: made by hand- Pia Jane Bijkerk...

I am so thrilled to be in Pia Jane Bijkerk new book: Little Treasures: Made by Hand.

Have you seen it yet? It only just came out and I am in awe again with Pia's photography and courage.

pia's little treasures made by hand is a self publishing adventure.

Not only she wrote a lovely story about me, but I have more than one mention…

thank you so much Pia.

xxxx

Little Treasures: made by hand- Pia Jane Bijkerk...

I keep thinking….

I keep thinking you already know.

I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that were only ever written in my mind.” 

― Iain Thomas

  Minor White - Movement studies Number 56, 1949

i missed you...

And when I asked you how you’d been,

I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything before.” 

― Iain Thomas

mark borthwick

under the winter sky...

Erin makes the most beautiful hand formed, one-of-a-kind, hand painted porcelain bells, brooches, vases, necklaces-

She also makes beautiful paintings…. 

Erin's work is enchanting, poetic, captivating, exquisite, delicate, magical and so much more...

I did own two beautiful brooches, but have given these away to two special people in my life…

I'm definitely getting some more of her work…

if you are around in Brisbane, Erin is having her first solo exhibition at paper boat press, starting tomorrow see below….

The end...

I could taste 

the sting of whisky

on your lips,

the final kiss,

before we said

our last goodbye,

without a word

being said.

-michael faudet

M N Λ Г \nPhotographer- Kuzmenkova Mary \nMake-up & Style Alena Radina\nModel- Nastya Zhidkova\nstudio monolog

in my dreams...

In my flowery dreams there’s always you. I do not regret it one bit.

— Alfred De Musset, Complete Writing 

martin vallin

holiday house...

 She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful,

and just when she was almost close enough to touch she’d rush away again.

— Glenda Millard, from A Small Free Kiss in the Dark (Holiday House, 2010)


sofia coppola by juergen teller for marc jacobs perfume, 2002

we...

We don't see things as they are

We see things as we are

-Anais Nin
Francois Henri Galland

colette vermeulen...

seriously stunning collection by Colette Vermeulen...

hand-woven floral cotton silks, bespoke jacquards, mohair and raffia brights

are contrasted by frayed denim and eighties style jackets in boyish silhouettes.

if...

marc johns

in my sleep...

in my sleep i placed your hand above my heart,

like i forgot i didn’t live there anymore
michelle tea

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