Charlotte Moss: muses on Lavender

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" Lavender

A color often misunderstood."

"The fluttering chiffon-like petals of a single iris

Placed on the mantle of one Pauline de Rothschild."

Tuileries Iris  photograph by Charlotte Moss

Tuileries Irises   photograph by Charlotte Moss

Pauline de Rothschild's London Flat photographed by Derry Moore

"The beautiful sculpted soaps in a bowl in my grandmother’s bathroom"

"The inside of a chocolate violet crème – from deBauve in Paris"

Pauline de Rothschild Balenciaga dress

image from the Met

 

"Often a grey hair-color rinse gone wrong – or right – depends on which way you look at it!”

Elsie de Wolfe

a lavander

"A sultry color. where few dare to venture--"

 Givenchy Fall 2011-detail

image from Vogue

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