Showing posts with label h.p. lovecraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label h.p. lovecraft. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

the crazy vegetation of the springtime

Spring is here!


- Skyler, 2012


For Steven Meisel and Vogue Italia, spring brings with it all of the magic and wonder of the Everdeen household on Reaping Day. I'm guessing that he has terrible seasonal allergies.



 

Okay, yes. I see ugly bonnets, a couple bolts of calico Pa brought back from the county store last week, some livestock what needs plucking. BTW I spent $800 on this cardigan.
February 2008, via a mad tea party with alis

Alis is patient with these images. Claiming that most people don't know how to dress comfortably for the countryside, she thinks that these loose layers are a real breath of fresh air. The colors are natural and calm.

I am skeptical. I am reminded of a certain other someone's treatment of springtime colors. Or colours as it were.

For this strange beam of ghastly miasma was to him of no unfamiliar hue. He had seen that colour before, and feared to think what it might mean. He had seen it in the nasty brittle globule in that aerolite two summers ago, had seen it in the crazy vegetation of the springtime, and had thought he had seen it for an instant that very morning against the small barred window of that terrible attic room where nameless things had happened. It had flashed there a second, and a clammy and hateful current of vapour had brushed past him - and then poor Nahum had been taken by something of that colour. He had said so at the last - said it was like the globule and the plants. After that had come the runaway in the yard and the splash in the well-and now that well was belching forth to the night a pale insidious beam of the same demoniac tint.
  - h.p. lovecreft, the colour out of space, via dragonbytes


 

Plenty more work to be done, ladies. These beans ain't poling themselves or whatever. So...who does your arm waxing?
February 2008, via a mad tea party with alis
 

Maybe it's because I come from the land of no seasons, but I am a little excited about all of this.

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Sunday, July 10, 2011

the rats in the walls

Stuck on what to wear when trapped in a Lovecraft-ian nightmare? How to look your best when you suspect you might be “cursed of God”?

left to right: via; 1870, the council held by the rats, for sale via; Florence Broadhurst

Inheriting an ancient building only to find that we got way more than we bargained for in the way of underground cannibalistic civilizations is pretty much a universal fear! Am I right? Who hasn’t found themselves overcome by madness and ultimately committing some sort of atrocity against mankind under those circumstances? H.P. and these style makers know what I’m talking about. Whether you find yourself a part of some sort of murderous cult or simply pursued by one; whether you’re consumed by madness or simply want to look your best on the way out, I’m here to help!

clockwise from top left: 1890 jet and gold beaded bodice for sale at antiquedress.com; alexander mcqueen via; rat postcard image from postaletrice; vivian stanshall via; waiting it out via; packing it up, bespoke-style for sale at brownrigg, just stop worrying about it via