Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts

Friday, October 19, 2012

Nerdy Sexy


"I'm not ashamed to admit it: Fashion is superficial, but I love it."

-Chloe Sevigny

Friday, September 28, 2012

You Wrap Me Up In The Color of Love



How sultry was Sade in this video? Miami nights, neon lights, red lit apartment bedroom. Light, reflection, & intimacy. What do we wear in our sacred spaces? conscious of we of bedtime attire. In fashion that is just as important as any garment. And whether you have a partner, company or going to bed alone wear whatever makes you feel sexy and comfortable.


Friday, May 27, 2011

Artist's Manifesto

Gotta look up and tell yourself,
there's no end to what you can do.
They'll waste your body and soul if you allow them to.
This is time to start believing in yourself.
Put the blame on no-one else.


We're hungry but we won't give in.


Haven't I told you before,
"we're hungry for a life we can't afford."
There's no end to what you can do.
If you give yourself a chance to prove.
-Fatima Robinson on Sade

Safety First

“Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed.”
– Ellen Von Unwerth




Inspirations:
Ellen von Unwerth x Omahyra x Her tattoo x Pin x Delfina Delettrez


Omahyra Mota
Model Omahyra Mota has always exuded an androgynous angle of feminine sexuality that is effortlessly commanding in photographs. Raw and candidly captured in 2005 book,"Omahyra and Boyd" shot by one of my favorite fashion photographers, Ellen Von Unwerth.


Delfina Delettrez Orgy Pin
22-year-old Delfina Deletterez, a fourth generation descendant of the Fendi clan was born into fashion royalty. In 2007 Delfina debuted her first collection in 2007. Her aesthetic magnetically draws an intrigue not so commonly found in jewelry. She describes it as 'gothic, romantic, rock, FRESH, passionate, laid back, playful, and sunny'. No wonder I find her pieces delectably amusing. Just her website and images of her boutique located in Rome serves as endless stream of inspiration. It is as if she casts these talismans often associated with darkness into a new light,  figuratively speaking.. The collection's main theme "wavers between good and evil, between death and life. Through the applied arts, I want to exorcise and materialize this concept which is often frightening and uncomfortable," according to Delfina.  Somehow skulls aren't so cryptic, bugs not so gross, and orgies not so provocative. Available online at Opening Ceremony.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

The Bearded Woman


"Her splendor and her form were divine; she was a maiden beautiful and blooming."
Thus was the modest self-portrait of Hatsheput, the eldest daughter of Tuthmosis. When the warrior daughter of a warrior came to occupy his throne, she decided to call herself "king" and not "queen." Queens were the women of kings, but Hatsheput was unique, the daughter of the sun, the greatest of the great.
This pharaoh with tits used a man's helmut and mantle, wore a stage-prop beard and gave Egypt twenty years of prosperity and glory.
The little nephew she raised, who learned from her the art of war and good government, wiped out all memory of her. He ordered the unsurper of male power erased from a list of pharaohs, her name and image removed from paintings and stellae, and the statue she had erected to her own glory demolished.
But a few statues and inscriptions escaped the purge, and thanks to that oversight we now know that there was once a female pharaoh disguised as a man, a mortal who did not want to die, one who announced: "My falcon rises high above the kingly banner into all eternity."
Thirty-four hundred years later, her tomb was found. Empty.
-Eduardo Galeano (Mirrors)

Stunning portrait, however highly sexualized. And where's her beard?