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Sweet Love…

29 Tuesday Mar 2011

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© Lai Man Cheung Photography

I’ll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he’ll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. – from the story A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker

We pine and opine about true love but very few of us have ever really experienced it.

Models: Lauren DiMarco and Aaron Mann

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Hot Tin Roof…

26 Saturday Mar 2011

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© Mua Janet Mariscal

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?
Just staying on it I guess, as long as she can.
from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Sometimes surrendering is not an option.

Model: Khrystyana Kazakova

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Makeup…

25 Friday Mar 2011

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© Samantha Wolov

She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Lord Byron

Makeup ready for a photo shoot – to conceal and reveal.

The lead photograph is reminiscent of David Bailey’s iconic work in the late 1960s, particularly with
Catherine Deneuve.

© Lauren DiMarco

© Lauren DiMarco

Model – Ukushu Khrystyna

Denim…

21 Monday Mar 2011

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Clothes are about much more than just cloth. It’s giving the wearer something more than a garment. It’s transferring emotion. – Jessica Ogden

In the spirit of green crafting, I have taken to transforming my daughters’ old jeans into cushions, seat covers, handbags, change purses, and bowls (below).

© Joan Currie

Model – Lauren DiMarco

Scarves…

18 Friday Mar 2011

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© Miri Ekshtein – detail

Scarf – an article of dress of a light and decorative character.

I have a penchant for beautiful scarves! My favorite silk patterned ones were purchased at flea markets in Lisbon, Santa Fe, and San Francisco. I drape them around my shoulders mostly but have never had the panache to wear them in the dramatic way shown above.

I did, however, buy a crimson suede-fringed scarf on vacation in Morocco that seemed very chic, but once I got home it looked more like Davy Crockett meets Little Red Riding Hood and I never wore it.

© Miri Ekshtein

Models – Lauren DiMarco and Khrystyana Kazakova

Flaming Glory…

11 Friday Mar 2011

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© Phebe Standley

How shall I array my love?
How should I arrange my fair?
Leave her standing white and silent
In the richness of her hair?
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

The Celtic woman – brave, beautiful, beguiling, and bold.

Model – Phebe Standley

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Lovesight…

10 Thursday Mar 2011

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© William Cardoza

When do I see thee most, beloved one?
When in the light the spirits of mine eyes
Before thy face, their altar, solemnize
The worship of that Love through thee made known?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Lovesight

Dare to love fully, passionately, recklessly, intimately…

Model – Lauren DiMarco
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Moving Towards Ecstasy…

08 Tuesday Mar 2011

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© Mua Janet Mariscal

She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look’d down to Camelot.
Lord Tennyson from The Lady of Shalott

There is a time when, finally, she must be drawn out of her confinement.

Model – Khrystyana Kazakova

Beautiful Masculinity…

04 Friday Mar 2011

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© Ben Pacificar

I’d like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive.
To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.
Hedi Slimane

The modern masculine – see Hedi Slimane’s provocative website for his personal, fashion, and portrait diaries.

Model – Slavic Berezenko