from the ballet Apollon musagète
Serge Lifar and Alexandra Danilova, 1928
costumes designed by Coco Chanel
photo by Sasha
© V&A Images
Kadra Ahmed by Peggy Sirota
for Banana Republic
“
Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylized and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn.
Open your minds to every form of beauty.
” — Constance Spry
illustration by Rene Gruau
for Diorling perfume, c. 1960s
designer Mary Katrantzou
photo by Erik Madigan Heck
for Nomenus Quarterly
Vesta Tilly, 1906
photo by Chris von Wangenheim
for Dior, c. 1970s
from Mademoiselle D
Tanya Dziahileva by Peter Farago
for VS. Magazine, 2009
photo by Gordon Parks, 1952
shoes by Marina Dempster
photo by G. Stegelmann
Yasmin Warsame by Kanako B. Koga
Betty Bertrand Kenzo and Dorothée Bis
photo by Sacha Van Dorssen
for Marie Claire, 1981
architect Mies Van Der Rohe
photo by Slim Aarons, Chicago 1960
Stella Tennant by Paolo Roversi
for Vogue Italia, 1999
from The Portrait Sitting
Guinevere Van Seenus by Richard Burbridge
for 10 Magazine, FW 2010