The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.
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Alexander McQueen Fall 2013
*whimper*
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Alexander McQueen Embellished Wedge Sandal
1920
Avalon Scroll Heels / Charlotte Olympia
Baldinini
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Because obviously I don’t know my fashion history well enough to say that in my opinion Kate’s gown has a Napoleonic influence.
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I pictured to myself the Queen of Hearts as a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion - a blind and aimless Fury.The Red Queen I pictured as a Fury, but of another type; her passion must be cold and calm - she must be formal and strict, yet not unkindly; pedantic to the 10th degree, the concentrated essence of all governesses![1]
—Lewis Carroll, in “Alice on the Stage”
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![“When I used Aimee [Mullins] for [this collection], I made a point of not putting her in … sprinting legs [prostheses for running]… . We did try them on but I thought no, that’s not the point of this exercise. The point is that she was to mould in with the rest of the girls.”
i-D, July 2000](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvxyyuMdAX1qegasto1_500.jpg)
“When I used Aimee [Mullins] for [this collection], I made a point of not putting her in … sprinting legs [prostheses for running]… . We did try them on but I thought no, that’s not the point of this exercise. The point is that she was to mould in with the rest of the girls.”
i-D, July 2000
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Song of the Wave by Khalil Gibran
… Many times have I stolen gems from the
Depths and presented them to my beloved
Shore. He takes them in silence, but still
I give for he welcomes me ever …
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- I pictured to myself the Queen of Hearts as a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion - a blind and aimless Fury.
- The Red Queen I pictured as a Fury, but of another type; her passion must be cold and calm - she must be formal and strict, yet not unkindly; pedantic to the 10th degree, the concentrated essence of all governesses![1]
—Lewis Carroll, in “Alice on the Stage”
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… £17.50!!!!!!!! To see a dress? Yeah, that’s not going to happen.
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Tomorrows theme is random to make up for not posting anything interesting the past two days.
I have actually been researching something extremely fascinating and I hope to share it with you soon! Please bear with me and my boring posts until then!
All that Glitters is
notGoldAlexander McQueen from the Savage Beauty exhibition
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“I must go seek some dew-drops here, and hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.” William Shakespeare
I will admit that looking through the Savage Beauty exhibition hurts. Lee I miss you.
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” … The little mermaid lifted her glorified eyes towards the sun, and felt them, for the first time, filling with tears. On the ship, in which she had left the prince, there were life and noise; she saw him and his beautiful bride searching for her; sorrowfully they gazed at the pearly foam, as if they knew she had thrown herself into the waves. Unseen she kissed the forehead of her bride, and fanned the prince, and then mounted with the other children of the air to a rosy cloud that floated through the aether… . “
The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Anderson
Natalia Vodianova in Alexander McQueen
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McQueen once remarked, “I’m overly romantic,” but it was precisely his romantic yearnings that propelled his creativity and advanced fashion in directions previously considered unimaginable.
