c0ssette:

Detail,Still Life with Flowers and Fruit (1850 - 55) Severin Roesen.

onemanshighfashionblog:

kasiastress:

Karen Elson and Raquel Zimmermann for Lanvin f/w 2011 ad campaign

extolled:

Tanya Dziahileva by Juergen Teller for Yves Saint Laurent S/S 06 

forever caring too much

timazing:

kingofcouture:

Dior Haute Couture par Raf Simons - Spring Summer 2013

THIS. THIS. THIS.

Se

me:  *walks into business after trekking through hot humid weather*
me:  *sweats all over counter*
potential new boss:  ...
me:  I hope you find this endearing *hands job application*

❝ The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure, she covered her face with powder and paint because she didn’t need it and she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. ❞

one of my new favorite tags is “women are cool”

One of the things that makes some of the earliest feminists so inspiring is that so many of them accomplished all that they did without a formal education or, at the very least, a formal education as rigorous as the men of the same social status. So many of them were self-taught and self-educated. Through their own independent efforts, they became just as intelligent, just as capable, as any man whose intelligence was spurred by the help of private tutors and the combined support of their parents and peers. 

And that’s just really amazing. Because not only did they prove that they could be just as capable, just as intelligent and reasonable, as the men in power, but also that they could become so completely by themselves.