Monday, January 31, 2011

My Country House....


Wanna come over?










(home of Roman Alonso, creative director of Commune, shot by Amy Neunsinger for House Beautiful)


Thanks, Moodboard, for finding my dreamhouse!!

Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Most Unforgettable Women in the World Wear Revlon.....


like Liza...

...and Patti, Rene, and Beverly....

...Tatjana, Iman and Jerry....

...and don't forget Oprah, girl!

Saturday, January 29, 2011

La Princesse

"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time...."

Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides



Joan Collins by Slim Aarons

Arthur Rackham's Cinderella



Solve Sundsho, Vogue Nippon October 2010


Vicki King

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Journey of a Man's Wardrobe....


Louis Vuitton's Journey of a Man's Wardrobe, shot by The Selby, takes us through some masculine interiors that aren't as cavelike as most.....




Paris - the home of the legendary Louis Vuitton




New York - Waris Ahluwalia's studio





New York - Illustrator Ruben Toledo's studio




Shanghai- home of artist Les Suen



London- White Cube Gallery


Shanghai - Glamorous, Co., agency of H. Koon Kee

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

More snow....


Agyness Deyn by Ryan McGinley

Monday, January 24, 2011

Mermaids

by Alix Malka for Numero Tokyo



by Ilya Repin

Numero Tokyo

MOMA's AB EX NEW YORK

Went to the Museum of Modern Art today to check out their blockbuster Abstract Expressionist Exhibition.....


Wow.



Franz Kline, Cheif, 1950



Norman Lewis, City Night, 1947



(detail) Ad Reinhardt, Number 22, 1949



(detail) Arshille Gorky, Agony, 1947



Robert Motherwell, The Voyage, 1949




(detail) Jackson Pollack, One: Number 31, 1950, 1950



(detail) Phillip Guston, Painting, 1954



(detail) Phillip Guston, Painting, 1954



Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 108, 1965-67



(detail) Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 108, 1965-67



While, on the surface, safe and productive post-WWII America looked like this:


...the generation's artists struggled with the dark collective interior of a nation now stepping into the spotlight as a world superpower while negotiating the harrowing guilt of being the only country to drop the nuclear bomb. Their portait of the American psyche looked like more like this:

Franz Kline, Le Gros, 1961


If you find yourself in New York before the exhibit closes on April 25th, it is well worth a look.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Rats are nice



by Banksy


Gwyneth Paltrow in W, September 2007


by Kristin Reger


Edie Sedgwick liked to draw them, too


Rat King costume design for The Nutcracker by Richard Hudson



Die Antwoord


by Kayleigh Watkins