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I return to these again-I hope you- reader-will indulge me another look.
or look for the first time.
There is reason to the flights of fashion fancy that find their way to these pages.
I am inspired.


For the most part, I am uninspired by the design and decoration of rooms today.
We subscribe to the publications that supposedly show us the best of what is best. but it doesn't, it isn't.


 that's why this is here.



... The magic of Art is that it inspires inanimate objects with some of the qualities of Life, so that they can create pleasure, and satisfy obscure needs for colour, or rhythm, or form: the Art of Dress perhaps brings these qualities into the closest relationship with ourselves; and a woman who has no use for it must have some secret obliquity, arrogance or malady of soul. I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasure: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered-Freya Stark  



SARAH MOWER's VOGUE review HERE,
McQueen images from the same.
from the Walt Whitman archives HERE
from Freya Stark HERE


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