style LOVE: having a dress up moment HEIRLOOM MODERN

Vivetta

Delphine Manivet

quaint early 13c., "cunning, proud, ingenious," from O.Fr. cointe "pretty, clever, knowing," from L. cognitus "known," pp. of cognoscere "get or come to know well" (see cognizance). Sense of "old-fashioned but charming" is first attested 1795, and could describe the word itself, which had become rare after c.1700 (though it soon recovered popularity in this secondary sense). Chaucer used quaint and queynte as spellings of cunt in "Canterbury Tales" (c.1386), and Andrew Marvell may be punning on it similarly in "To His Coy Mistress" (1650).

Erdem

Giambattista Valli

Mui Mui

Oscar-worthy

February will come roaring in- no doubt- with insipid Valentine verse and the Oscars.
This dress from Giambattista Valli is truly Oscar-worthy.
Won't you be Mine?

photos from Vogue UK by Indigital here

RIHANNA

expect the unexpected.

RIHANNA in Giambattista Valli, at the Grammys 

& it has pockets...

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Lucy Lockett

Lucy Locket lost her pocket, 

Kitty Fisher found it;
Not a penny was there in it,
Only ribbon round it.

 a gown even Kitty Fisher could love.

Giambattista Valli Couture 2014

 

some pretty

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sometimes we just need pretty.

& full skirts 

& crinoline

& panniers.

FALL COUTURE Azzedine Alaia


read a little more about Alaia's Haute Couture here

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