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pinerosolanno: SHEER ELEGANCE

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:36:24 -0400

pinerosolanno:

SHEER ELEGANCE

Victoriana - Series, by Thomas Robson

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:35:09 -0400

Victoriana - Series, by Thomas Robson

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:34:45 -0400

foxesinbreeches: From Damaged Negatives by Glen Luchford Also

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:33:24 -0400

foxesinbreeches:

From Damaged Negatives by Glen Luchford

Also

lamelancoly: Man Ray- cover “Les Voies Lactées ” porfolio, ed,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:24:44 -0400

lamelancoly:

Man Ray- cover “Les Voies Lactées ” porfolio, ed, Galleria Il Fauno , Turin, 1974 ( silver gelatin prints mounted on heavy paper)

(via Bessange auctions)

dormanta: Missy Rayder in “Missy Raider’s Treasure Chest” by...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:38:42 -0400

dormanta:

Missy Rayder in “Missy Raider’s Treasure Chest” by Max Farago for i-D October 2008

frumpytaco: “Glass tulip” tunicates (and associated...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:36:48 -0400

frumpytaco:

“Glass tulip” tunicates (and associated echinderms), observed as part of a census of Antarctic marine life in 2008.

malformalady: Hand-shaped aragonite formation found while...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:23:58 -0400

malformalady:

Hand-shaped aragonite formation found while exploring the abandoned Dobšiná Mine in Košický Kraj, Slovakia. Aragonite is a carbonate mineral, one of the two common, naturally occurring, crystal forms of calcium carbonate.

Photo credit: Albert Russ

nuclearharvest: by Oret de Ronet

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:16 -0400

nuclearharvest:

by Oret de Ronet

partizany: They can try, yet no one will ever be able to take a...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:25:59 -0400

partizany:

They can try, yet no one will ever be able to take a better picture of me.

blastedheath: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938),...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:23:44 -0400

blastedheath:

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938), Mexikobucht auf Fehmarn [Mexico Bay, Fehmarn], 1912. Oil on canvas, 50.4 x 50.4 cm.

Gia Carangi, Sandy Linter, Patty Hansen, Julie Foster by...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:23:07 -0400

Gia Carangi, Sandy Linter, Patty Hansen, Julie Foster by Michael Tighe for Interview Magazine, feb. 1980. (→ x)

“Her problem was that she was so sensitive. That hard core exterior was a cover for her vulnerability.” “She loved the camera as much as it loved her.”
— Maurice Tannenbaum

digbicks: Face off: Photographer Piczo has been finding new...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:22:09 -0400

digbicks:

Face off: Photographer Piczo has been finding new faces and capturing the first moments of their careers for i-D magazine. With zero styling and zero make up, you get the person before they’ve become the model.

Zlata Mangafic

Martha

Will Hathaway

Anastasia Milli

Antonina

Sarah Taylor

Carn

tat-art: “New School”, Tilda photographed by Sebastian Kim for...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:13:42 -0400

tat-art:

“New School”,

Tilda photographed by Sebastian Kim for Intermission Magazine #7

photojojo: Luke Evans first came to everyone’s attention when...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:11:34 -0400

photojojo:

Luke Evans first came to everyone’s attention when he swallowed 35mm film and used an electron microscope to record what his digestive system had done to the film.

In his latest unconventional series, he’s created immense landscapes from ordinary materials in hit kitchen, such as table salt.

Landscapes From the Kitchen Table

via It’s Nice That

loverofbeauty: Finland: A May Snowstorm, 1968.(Ph. George F....

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:10:44 -0400

loverofbeauty:

Finland: A May Snowstorm, 1968.
(Ph. George F. Mobley, National Geographic)

somethingvain: Fashion as a metaphor for sexism: Hussein...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:03:21 -0400

somethingvain:

Fashion as a metaphor for sexism: Hussein Chalayan F/W 1998 ‘Panoramic’

“You’re interested in fashion?” The rhetorical question is pronounced in a high-pitched tone that makes it sound more like “faSHION?” as judgmental eyes run themselves over my clothing as they secretly assess the value (none, obviously) of indulging myself in such a superficial pastime.

When we think of fashion, we think of a frivolous, lucrative industry that prides itself in the glorification of the exterior. We think of glossy Marie Claire explorations into the meaning of the new trend of three earing holes as opposed to two; we think of the Victoria Secret spectacles of bikini-wearing models, we think of the circus of Fashion Week street style where ordinary people transform into gigantic-hat-wearing, towering-high-heel-sporting Martians for the sake of ‘style’.

But to distill fashion to ‘models’ or ‘trends’ or even ‘style’ would be on par with reducing an entire personality to one adjective. It would be calling Jay Gatsby ‘nice’, or Mr.Darcy ‘mean’. It is simplifying the multidimensional character of fashion, and the adjective this simplification commonly leads to is ‘shallow’.

Is fashion shallow? Yes. But, is fashion deep? Yes. In the postmodernist world, those two aren’t mutually exclusive. In the words of Karl Lagerfeld, “Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.” Beyond the façade of fashion as the self-serving indulgence it seems to be, fashion is our most important medium of expression. And everything is an expression of fashion: whether an acceptance of fashion or a rejection of it, its deterministic quality is simply unavoidable as long as we continue to wear clothing (and even if we don’t: I’m sure many would agree that public nudity definitely makes an unforgettable statement). Across the civilizations and eras of intellectual thinking, there has never been a more widely understood, commonly accepted language than that of fashion: the signifier of class hierarchy, the grammar of intention, the vocabulary of society and the metaphor for life.

This may seem obvious to you. And yet, the concept of fashion as a metaphor confers it some level of intellectualism that people seem unwilling to acknowledge. The high-pitched incredulity of “you spend your spare time thinking about fashion?” never fails to amaze me, considering art never faces the same censure when both are metaphors and interpretations of life and in fact, fashion – being the more accessible of the two – may have greater relevance.

Society’s denial of fashion’s intellectual side may be a metaphor in itself: a metaphor for sexism. In the language of fashion, gender roles are full stops that constrict women and men to their respective vocabularies, and it just so happens that the vocabulary of female clothing is more diverse and more articulate than a male’s. Fashion is a sign with a signifier generally of female dress, and the signified is of frivolity in contrast to a man’s more serious work ethic. The invalidation of the importance of fashion is the invalidation of the only area wherein females have a societal advantage over males, and where their voices are heard louder and given greater importance.

Now one may say that most famous designers – Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Christian Dior, Riccardo Tisci – are men, but one must never forget that clothing is mostly made for female markets, and the range of clothing for females far outnumbers that of males – take the Met Ball 2013 as an example. Whilst ‘fashion’ ranged from Beyonce in her Givenchy strapless dress to Stella Tennant in her G.Valli pantsuit to Kim Kardashian in her flowered…monstrosity, the world’s most fashionable males were reduced to a homogenous blend of black tux after black tux after black tux. The expression of style is severely limited for men, and for them fashion as a metaphor may indeed seem to be a preposterous idea.

However, the patriarchal society is one that has seen its power beginning to fade. And to seize on the idea of intellectual fashion isn’t just a statement on feminism, or a statement on equality: it’s an acknowledgment of an existing, unavoidable concept. Fashion is a metaphor: what it means is for you to decide.

written by somethingvain

nevver: Warhol’s polaroids

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:57:15 -0400

nevver:

Warhol’s polaroids

theantidote: Waiting to be discovered (by James Thornbrook) A...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:56:40 -0400

theantidote:

Waiting to be discovered (by James Thornbrook)

A hidden beauty. Whispering to me in the morning breeze….

architectureofdoom: Memorial to the victims of communism |...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:55:13 -0400

architectureofdoom:

Memorial to the victims of communism | Prague

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