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Three friends look down from a balcony in New Orleans, 1960.
"I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You’re my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here."
_Graham Greene to his mistress, Lady Catherine Walston, who inspired him to write The End of the Affair (via nouvelliste)
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Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Women's Fashion in 1920s France
guess who just found a free pdf version of one of her favourite pieces of writing ever? THIS GUY!
PRINTING IT OUT AND RE-READING THIS GEM IN THE BATHTUB TONIGHT.
seriously, this text, bell hooks’ and sherene razack’s complete works, bonita lawrence’s real indians and others, are up there on my all-time most important “life changing texts” list.
Martin Margiela, garment covered in mold, made for 9/4/1615 installation at Brooklyn Anchorage, New York, 1999, originally created for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1997
Photography: William Palmer
Deconstruction
Formalism And Revolution: Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto by Patricia MearsJapan Fashion Now
Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
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Damn, Girl: Carmen Miranda at The Blind Hem
Summer is fast approaching, and with it comes the desire to pump up the volume of my wardrobe. Bright colors, loud prints, south-of-the-border accents — I tend to go all out when the temperature rises. I want to wear tropical print skirts and dresses, dripping with bright beads and metallics. Who better to use as sartorial inspiration than the queen of Tropicália, the incredibly vibrant Carmen Miranda?
Why Are You So Obsessed With Me? at The Blind Hem
Since I guess Coachella started this past weekend or something, I have seen a virtual parade of images on Tumblr and Instagram from retailers such as Free People and Brandy Melville (both of whom I normally really adore) featuring dream-catchers, moccasins, leather fringe, feathers, teepees and face paint indicative of Plains Indian imagery. Besides the fact that these are grown women practically playing dress up, the fact that they are choosing a race of people as their subject proves two things: 1) that Western society has lost all sight of the reality of the Indigenous and therefore the genocide (yes, genocide) is all but complete and 2) that there is something about Indians that fascinates non-Indians.
words © Sheena Roetman / photos found on Instagram via #coachella, #nativeamerican, #indian tags
And So Modest! at The Blind Hem
The blogger is showcasing their sartorial talents in the most prideful, vain way possible — endless pages of photographs of their self, of their body, of their gently smiling face staring off into the horizon in that damned ubiquitous field they all seem to live near. They are displaying their selves in a way that screams “Look at me! Look at what I am wearing! Look at how amazing I am!” In the case of modest style bloggers, they are also screaming “Look at how modest I am!” We could (and I do) argue that this negates the idea of being modest.
words © Katy Jones
What Can We Learn From Katniss Everdeen? at The Blind Hem
The figure of the YA heroine is on the rise — at the front of the pack is The Hunger Games trilogy’s Katniss Everdeen. Katniss, a coalminer’s daughter from District 12, navigates unthinkable circumstances to become the single most important person in the fictional nation of Panem. Suzanne Collins has created a heroine who is strong, brave, and thoroughly believable as a young woman struggling to survive in a dystopia that is an uncanny mirror of our own culture’s obsession with the spectacle of dehumanization. Katniss’ evolution from a hunter by trade to rebel leader could teach us all a thing or two about how to deal when the odds simply aren’t in our favor. The following are life lessons from the Mockingjay herself, Katniss Everdeen.
words © Melissa Grey
