Just let go...

Just let go.
Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

— Caroline Myss
backstage @ thakoon spring 2013, ph. alfredo piola

strange feeling...

I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore.

It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came,

disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again.

That sort of feeling.

Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami

nastya sten in “form meets fashion” for v #87 spring 2014, ph. nicholas alan cope.

out of air...

I'm  all out of air,

all my breath you have stolen,

but the words remain.

—Daily haiku on love by Tyler Knott Gregson 

Louise Butterworth

unfolded...

I want to unfold.

I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am untrue.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

photographed by bibi & jacob for revs

awakened….

It's through you my love,

I’m capable of all things,

you awakened me.

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

"twin flowers" fashion story shot by Yesim Özügeldi, styled by Esra Dandin, intervened with collage work by Meric Canatan.

my thrill….

 ... if I had known free spirits are burning deities

I’d have stayed away from you

If I could…

Built a moat around my heart

Cloaked my soul and shut my eyes from your radiance

I am burning.

A beautiful fire has set me alight

You came into my life a far away wind blowing on foreign land

Carrying the smell of sweetened love with you

If I had known you would fan my spirit I’d have sought counsel from the four winds

and travelled earlier to find you

Look how I blush the colour of your soul

The colour of my heart before you came dancing to the sound of my name..

— my thrill - Tapiwa Mugabe, tapiwamugabe.tumblr.com

"ZZZ…": Natasha Poly by Tim Walker for LOVE #11 Spring/Summer 2014

all you need is...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
— Cicero

Marc Jacobs|The Secret Garden

it is….

It is music and dancing that makes me at peace with the world.

— Nelson Mandela
Ter et Bantine Fall/Winter 1999 Campaign photographed by Armin Linke

One moment...

I have had one moment of enormous peace.

This perhaps is happiness.

Now I am drawn back by pricking sensations; by curiosity, greed and the irresistible desire to be myself.

— Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

"Wishes on a wheel". Caitlin Morrin by Parisa Walklett for DressLab

Your becoming is inevitable….

Your becoming is inevitable 

Create to calm the boil

This will thaw out the numb spirit

Before floods of laughter 

And a hundred posies full of kisses

There will be nights turning into loneliness

You will go from soft to brittle then soft again 

You’ll learn grief is a horrible thing

that cooks anger and serves sadness

But you will rebuild yourself into something better

And you will find a new way to breath

Then you will fly and fly away

— your becoming is inevitable  - Tapiwa Mugabe

georgina stojiljkovic by Sarah Moon for grey ss11

Witness of freedom….

We are living in a time when men, impelled by mediocre and ferocious ideologies,

have gotten into the habit of being ashamed of everything
 —ashamed of themselves, of being happy, of loving or creating.

— Albert Camus, The Artist as a Witness of Freedom 
lukasz wierzbowski

Having...

Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

barbara stanwyck

There is...

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.

You feel it, don’t you?" 

― Rumi

Valerie Sipp in “Designer’s Palette” by Javier Vallhonrat for Vogue Italia March 2002

♥

"I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you

first come ‘round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come 

into a room you’ve just left.

Know the lift of your heel,

the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way 

you purse your lips

then let them part, 

just the slightest bit,

when I lean in to your space

and kiss you.

I want to know the joy 

of how you whisper 

"more". 

― Rumi

Jeneil Williams photographed by Txema Yeste for Numéro #150 February 2014

Love story...

"The minute I heard my first love story, 

I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.

They’re in each other all along."

― Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

naftali beder

I am not...

I am not like

other people

other people are like

other people.

— Charles Bukowski 

Monika Sawicka by Mark Segal for Vogue Nippon

yes|no...

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you aren’t saying ‘no’ to yourself.

— Paulo Coelho

Sarah Moon

I wish...

And your voice is still my favorite song, my favorite sound, my favorite softness.

— Anis Mojgani, “I Wish I Was Sleeping in Your Arms Tonight”

georgina stojiljkovic by sarah moon for another magazine fall 2011 “the singing silhouette”

She was...

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.

She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

'baignade interdite'. siri tollerød by camille vivier for numéro june/july 2008

There is….

There is 

something

just so

exhausting

about reality.

— Michelle K., Realism.

"Form Meets Fashion". Photographed by Nicholas Alan Cope for V magazine #87

Water...

"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth.

This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness."

— Lao Tzu  

Eva Kotátková “Stages of Sleep”

I never...

I never wish to be easily defined.

I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person. 

- Franz Kafka 
Cocoon dress by Hussein Chalayan, glass headpiece by Emi Fujita for Chalayan

sense...

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

by maijomoris

to have….

To have survived something, as opposed to have gotten through something—that’s a big difference.

— Ann Beattie
björk photographed by glen luchford

Vain….

It is vain futility to describe the way you smile; it is mere impossibility to speak at all when you are around.

I don’t dare breathe. Keep smiling. I don’t dare move at all.

— Friedrich Nietzsche,  from Selected Letters

shot for fashion 156 by mariell amelie