Chez Yves Saint Laurent

Cabinet de Monsieur le Comte de Bielinski Grand Marechal de la Couronne de Pologne executé en 1754.

A Look We Like

Marie-Amélie de Bourbon-Siciles, Queen of the French. Louis Hersent, 1830.

What About?

 Diana Vreeland always had her dollar bills and her tissues ironed before putting them in her handbag.

 The pillows in her home were infused with perfume via hypodermic needles.

 She rarely left the house before noon, and she often conducted serious business from her tub.

She ate the same lunch every day: a whole-wheat peanut-butter-and-marmalade sandwich, washed down with scotch. "Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity," she said.

Diana's signature color was red, but she never found the perfect shade, which was, according to her, "the color of a child's cap in any Renaissance portrait.

The Iron Lady is Dead. Requiescat in Pace.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven

1925-2013

The Devonshires

The Duke of Saint Aignan investing Girolamo Vaini, Prince of Cantalupe and Duke of Selci, with the insignia of the Order of the Holy Spirit. Pierre Subleyras, 1737.

Book Nº120

Magister Dixit:

"I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing."

- Coco Chanel 

McQueen on Givenchy:

Hubert de Givenchy posing for Roger Viollet, 1948.

"Well, what do you make of Hubert de Givenchy? He was only ever any good at ripping off Cristóbal Balenciaga."

- Alexander McQueen

 Fête musicale donnée par le cardinal de La Rochefoucauld au théâtre Argentina de Rome en 1747 à l'occasion du mariage du Dauphin, fils de Louis XV. Giavanni Paolo Pannini. 1747.

Empress Joséphine Bedroom at the Château de Malmaison

The Fury of Achilles by Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1737.

"My rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw – such agonies you have caused me"

- Achilles to Hector

Vatican Council II

Charles X of France State Coach.

A Look We Like

Magister Dixit:

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to."

- Jim Jarmusch

The Fall of the Damned, Peter Paul Rubens. 1621. Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Fall of the Damned, Peter Paul Rubens. 1621. Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Home Sweet Home

Hubert de Givenchy at home.

Why Don't You?

Dolce Gabbana Fall 2014

 The chimneypiece in the Drawing Room at Calke Abbey.

Happy Valentine's

“I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it. For this session of fine jewelry, I imagined a man and a woman who had been together for a long time, faithful to each other and always incandescent with desire.”

- Tom Ford

Photo by Jeanloup Sieff. Paris, 1956.

Peace. Puvis de Chavannes,1867.

Morpheus and Iris, Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, 1811.

Magister Dixit:

"In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do." 

- Gianni Versace

Masters and Slaves

A Look We Like

Marella Agnelli, born Princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, by Philippe Halsman. 1963.

Magister Dixit:

"It would take four ordinary duchesses to make one Duchess of Windsor."

- Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

Roberto Bolle by Marc Hom

Roberto Bolle by Marc Hom

Balmain Fall 2013