For Sansa’s wedding dress the designer Michele Clapton wanted to have an embroidered band that wrapped around which symbolistically told Sansa’s life from the Tully and Stark beginnings to the entanglement with the Lannisters.

Her story starts at her lower back where the Tully fish and Stark Direwolf entwine as we move round to the front the Lannister Lion is becoming dominant over the Direwolf and at the back neck the Lions head is stamped onto Sansa. The dress colour was still very much Sansa Stark and the embroidery had pale golden tones but woven through the story are ripe red pomegranates, the red colour symbolising the growing Lannister influence over her. [x]

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_{The Brides}

_{“Francis [Ford Coppola] wanted a decaying, deteriorating feel to the fabric, like the shrouds of the mummies in the catacombs of Bombay. The passage of time would have turned the white fabrics to rich amber, so fragile that it would crumble when you touched it. At the same time, he wanted extremely feminine robes, like the ones worn by the women in paintings by the Czech poster-painter Mucha.”}

_{(Eiko and Coppola on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, p. 44)}

_{Design by Eiko Ishioka Photographed by David Seidner}

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suicideblonde:

Beyonce and Florence backstage at the Chime for Change concert, May 31st n London

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Greek myrtle wreath, c. 330-250 BC.

In ancient Greece, wreaths made from plants like laurel, ivy, and myrtle were awarded to athletes, soldiers, and royalty. Similar wreaths were designed in gold and silver for the same purposes or for religious functions. This example conveys the language of love.

A plant sacred to the goddess Aphrodite, myrtle was a symbol of love. Greeks wore wreaths made of real myrtle leaves at weddings and banquets, received them as athletic prizes and awards for military victories, and wore them as crowns to show royal status. 

By the Hellenistic period (300-30 BC), the wreaths were made of gold foil; too fragile to be worn, they were created primarily to be buried with the dead as symbols of life’s victories. The naturalistic myrtle leaves and blossoms on this wreath were cut from thin sheets of gold, exquisitely finished with stamped and incised details, and then wired onto the stems. Most that survive today were found in graves.

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definitelydope:

By Jonas Lang

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I’m the ghost at the back of your head.

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stopdropandvogue:

Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 1999

The models were trapped in a box filled with whistling wind; snow was falling down and created the ambiance of an eerie snow globe. In the middle of the runway there was an ice skating rink. McQueen always loved to add visual components to his shows. He was a designer whose love for theatre shined through in his settings as he referenced many different aspects of film, music, and the arts.

Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining, McQueen named his Fall/Winter 1999 show after the film’s haunted hotel, The Overlook. In the movie, a family of three is care-taking a hotel during a harsh winter. As the plot furthers, we watch the film’s protagonist descend into madness. McQueen has been known for his collections full of deep emotions such as fear, romance and terror. Often referencing his own psychology, McQueen’s creations are reflections of how he is feeling - communicating on indirect levels. He states that his collections “have always been autobiographical, it was like exorcising [his] ghosts.” (Savage Beauty) The intensity of the film fits perfectly with the haunting theme of the presentation. McQueen’s imagination is both dark and light, many times deeply troubled, mischievous and beautiful.

McQueen referenced the redhead twins, including a direct allusion to the film’s infamous characters in the collection. The models all had dark brown wigs, long thin faces, which strike a similarity with the protagonist’s wife, Wendy Torrance. White makeup was smeared across the eyes of the models and symbolized Wendy’s blindness to her husband’s progressing insanity. The pure color also represents snow, winter, and goodness.

The last scene of the movie shows Jack Torrance chasing his son Danny around a maze. A tumultuous snowstorm was in the air. Frostbitten and running for his life, Danny outsmarted his inarticulate, frenzied father. Jack was left frozen, a victim of Mother Nature.

The clothes personified the storm. There were crystal tops, luxurious furs, opulent jacquards, and skirts that had as much detailing as a snowflake. Many times McQueen has channeled the Sublime in his collections. Andrew Bolton explains, “One of the reasons why he loved nature so much was because it was so unpredictable. It is spontaneous; it is something one can never control, and I think that was always something he liked to show in his collections.”

McQueen will be forever known as a designer unafraid to take daring steps. He gathered his inspiration from the most arbitrary of places. The magnificent masterpieces of both McQueen and Kubrick make a wonderful analogy. McQueen’s unconvential fashion was his medium to relate his innermost emotions, ideas, and feelings. He used his collections to challenge the feelings of others. With every collection he pushed the boundaries of fashion. He always used his imagination stating that, “When you design with a buyer in mind, the collection doesn’t work. The danger is that you lose the creativity that drives you.” (Savage Beauty) We are all aware that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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Emma Watson at the ‘Le Grand Journal’ Canal + TV Stage during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May 17)

gingerhaze:

An assignment for Advanced Digital! We were supposed to make a gif portrait of a historical figure. I chose Julie d’Aubigny, 17th century swordsmaster and opera singer, responsible for the deaths of at least ten men in duels, and openly bisexual. After her lover was placed into a convent by the girl’s parents, d’Aubigny took the vows to enter the convent as a novice, then rescued her lover and set the convent on fire to cover their escape. Dang. 

brinnyart:

Here’s my full comic for buttzine. Not sure why I didn’t post the whole thing in the first place.