meditation on shadows

Power resides only where men believe it resides... A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

I do admit to reading all 5,000+ pages of the A Song of Fire and Ice Series, but I'm not looking to get into it here. Check out these beautifully haunting images from Vogue Italia of Laura Stone being menaced by shadows of monsters, poisons, and prickly plants. Simultaneously fairy tale, sci-fi, and high fashion, I approve.

Vogue Italia Couture Magazine, Spring/Summer 2010

Photographer: Paolo Roversi

Model: Laura Stone

Makeup: Peter Philips

Hair: Julien D'ys

Check below for further meditations on shadows.

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Besos! -Skyler
http://www.theseearthlybodies.com/

 

judging, reframing

Maybe I'm just projecting, but when New York-based photographer and mixed-media artist Bradly Brown says that he's into "organic decay, scrap-heap epiphanies and the reframing of consumer-culture ephemera as accidental poetry," I feel a little bit bad about myself.



via bradly brown


I'm sorry, consumer-culture ephemera. It's just that I'm so into you.

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Besos! -Skyler

http://www.theseearthlybodies.com/

walking dead like me

Louis Vuitton's $8 million fashion train at Paris Fashion Week A/W 2012



via Harper's Bazaar





via theclotheswhisperer





via fashion breakout



Whatever that was, exactly the opposite.

Magnetic Fields "Born on a Train"

I know that you were never young,
And I know you probably won't get old.
But honey, nobody's gonna hurt you anymore.
And nobody's gonna make you wanna die.

I hope this helps.

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Besos! -Skyler

ball & chain: 1967 edition

How to get ready for that special day in a way that suggests your total unwillingness to go through with it and lets your friends and family know exactly what you think of them? 1967 spent a lot of time answering exactly that question.




Christo's wedding dress design notes, 1967, via Archives of American Art

 

"No really, this is the happiest day of my life!"

 

Physical Details: Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Creator: unidentified photographer
Description: Identification on verso (handwritten): Christo, 1967 Wedding Dress [project]- white satin and silk ropes for opening night fashion show, Museum of Merchandise.
Forms part of: Joan Kron papers 1959-1971
Citation: Christo's wedding dress design notes, 1967 / unidentified photographer. Joan Kron papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.



 


Balenciaga single seam wedding dress, also 1967, via on pins and needles

 

"Yes, I'll be wearing this at the reception as well."



 



Jean Varon wedding dress photographed by Norman Parkinson for Vogue, 1967, via fashion vulture

  

"It's anti-malarial."


Use caution.

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Besos! -Skyler
http://www.theseearthlybodies.com/

schizophrenic fashion

Having trouble thinking logically, differentiating between real and unreal experiences? Seriously, aren't we all.



Miu Miu s/s 2011 is not making this any easier for us, via fashionising



 

morbid & shallow

Hi guys. Sorry it's been a while. Don't want to get into the details of what's been going on lately, but I think it's over for now.

The good news is that I'm on Tumblr now too. You can find me at Morbid & Shallow.

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Besos! - Skyler

Anh Duong and Marie-Sophie in Emanuel Ungaro, Vogue, Chateau Raray, France; via

give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself

This morning I was eavesdropping on my neighbors in the elevator when one of them told the other that he was going to “give him the rope he needed to hang himself.” How colorful! It totally got me thinking of some great looks involving rope, self-destructive behavior not required.

Marian Toledo loves rope in this big bold nautical number, via; Paule Ka goes for the throat in this halter, via;

Givenchy went haute with rope via

 

maison martin margiela artisanal does coat dress via; ligia dias does glamour rope at the swarovski runway via and alexander mcqueen of course manages to out-rope rope, for sale via chic little devil



gifts to bury yourself in: dangerous jewelry edition!

Need to give a gift that sends that special somone the right kind of message?

Try these crystal brass knuckles by Debra Baxter

more legal than the other kind