Seeking Sargent's

VIRGIN.

JSS,turn of the century, The Virgin.

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Tory Burch

 Loves Hydrangeas-

  

see the beautifully decorated spaces of her Madison Avenue store on her blog here

THEY seem not to mind hydrangeas- 

Marina Rust Connor, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer & Vera Wang at the Tory Burch store celebration

here

She does Not LOVE them.

She LOATHES-

She really must loathe them. 

& You?

Loathe or Love?
Hydrangeas that is.

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we?

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have you met this gorgeous couple?
who are they?

if you've studied her- you will recognize the Schiaparelli suit, or if you read blogs you've seen them making the rounds-

photograph by Cecil Beaton of Wallis Simpson before her wedding

yes-it's her.
and this page is devoted to the much loved-maligned American-but I can not help but wonder?

why is HE so tall? her little man the Duke was not so tall-in fact his stature I think is an important part of their story-but Madonna knows best-I hope.
the Duchess- good looking- no beauty she-but Madonna knows best- I hope.

all these glorious photographs of the actors in the new Madonna movie about the pair are in the new Vanity Fair.
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golden

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria

French

early 15th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

 John Donne

Klimt

Adele Bloch-Bauer, 1907.

Nue Galerie

 

 

 

 

The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide. 
The russet woods stood ripe to be stripped, but were yet full of leaf. 
The purple of heath-bloom, faded but not withered, tinged the hills...  
Fieldhead gardens bore the seal of gentle decay...
  Charlotte Brontë  

Янтарная комната Yantarnaya komnata 

Екатерининский дворец  Ца́рское Село

1701-1709

 

 

 

The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafty

 tongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.

 It has kept its boughs unshattered, and its full complement of leaves, and the whole in perfect verdure,except a single branch, that, by the earlier change with which the elm-tree sometimes prophesies the autumn,had been transmuted to bright gold.       Nathaniel Hawthorne

JASON WU 

gold leaf duchesse satin

fall 2010

 

 

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

Madonna & Child

Russian Icon

19th century

 

 

 

 

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 

John Burroughs  

 

Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha 

c. 563 BCE - 623 BCE 

Wat Pho

I, a light canoe will build me... that shall float upon the river,

like a yellow leaf of autumn, like a yellow water lily!

 Hiawatha

 

 

 

 

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NET-A-PORTER-KILT- A-PRINCE

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Pompeo Batoni 

portrait of

Colonel The Hon William Gordon

it seems each day brings a stuffed mailbox (yes the postman still walks-but does not ring) FULL of SEPTEMBER ISSUES- yesterday-Haper's Bazaar, as mentioned-with the Jennifer Aniston poses of Streisand, I do not like that.
Along with that cover -came the NET-A-PORTER FALL WINTER magazine FEMME FATALE. It is truly a slick savvy look at what magazines are really all about-NO BONES - Selling. NET-A-PORTER , for those of you who are-as one fashionista would say OUT- is a multimillion dollar online design-one stop-shop til you drop site created 10 years ago by Natalie Massenet. She sold her share of the company for an estimated £50m in April but "rolled back in" the day the news broke, investing £15m of her windfall back into the business. She remains executive chairman.

She tells the guardian- Her dream was to become a magazine editor but "I hadn't walked away from being editor-in-chief of a magazine – I'd just created a magazine for the 21st century instead, a hybrid between a store and a magazine that was delivered digitally " & now it delivers the paper too. Though it is all online I think Massenet must know the power of paper as well. The magazine carries a theme IT"S ALL ABOUT, and the most amusing find there is PRINCE CHARLES-full page picture- circa at his best age- KILTED.

It seems the KILT is ruling the runways again.
Again?
-and Charles is its most ICONIC wearer of note. This trumping- of All Clans and Usurpers of..., forget about the real historic figures- we talk of fashion- Sir Sean Connery, (there is a poll to help decide if you should or shouldn't here ), Rod Stewart, Vivienne Westwood, Liam Neeson, or personal favorite Marc Jacobs. see MEN IN KILTS here
No no- none of the above- but  THE PRINCE- CHARLES.

Charles and Anne in kilts 

on there knees

 Charles

 posing in kilt, posing in love

 then & now

 Charles

Still holding down the fort

 Charles 

working it

   FASHION ROYALS

IN
THE KILT

the DUKE

the Dame

Vivienne Westwood

the Madonna

Victoria Beckam ('07) and Marc Jacobs ('09 )split in kilts. 

Photos by Getty Images

&

Together- 

VB sans kilt

there is a video- should you go commando with a kilt ? on MTV here 

Marc made his mark with KILT grunge in 1992

Mizrahi

Isaac Mizrahi, Stewart Cashmere Flannel Kilt Gown, Fall,1989. 

Photo: Dawn Derrick, ©1989.

see this dress on the runway in IM's Sketchbook Fall 1989 here

one of the most successfully modern KILT adaptation of all

Alexander McQueen with Sarah Jessica Parker

PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND FALL 2010

MISSONI

Patchwork Knit KILT

I say- I would wear something from either- within reason, Pringle bottom left, or the Missoni-(I use to be a big fan) top left (get me a shirt) I gave up my kilts as the twenties gave me up-the Missoni's as the forties gave me up.

Still got a kilt? Girls? Guys?
so many Men blogging about fashion-design.
so I wonder do they or don't they? should they?

I know IVAN should & his surfing Kings should.

I know BLUE does,
and surely this guy- TartanScot does? (if not, TS-what gives?)
Why yes he does- and the proof is here

I know these Satorialists have a least posted about KILTS, Search them : TOAD  MAXMINIMUS  the TRAD,

(Lady KENDRA wrote about the lure of the REBEL KILT here)

what about JAMES?

But really I want to know- what about REGGIE, darling? 

KILTING LINKS

KILTS in reality? here
guys-there is a KILTMEN.COM here support and advice.
kilt blog (of course) here
ISAAC MIZRAHI Highland Fling here

like a virgin?

Madonna will be 51 in August. I never really thought we would have anything much in common. Well things have changed, as I approach my 50th in October- I recognize one of my own. Today when I was sweltering in the 70 something degree afternoon- pulling a few weeds, moving pots around in the flower beds- I thought about how the heat bothered me not 20 years ago, 10 years ago, after that- slowly the heat started creeping up on me. I was HOT. Later as I stood in front of the mirror massing wet (yes wet) ringlets on top of my head, starting at the neck, flipping my head over pinning and finally topping it off- on top with a pseudo ponytail- I immediately thought about MADONNA. YES! She must be going through menopause! All of a sudden the hair made mad sense! I could relate. She was HOT! as evidenced by the "up do" at this week's Metropolitan Museum's MODEL as MUSE GALA.

I can't really explain the thigh high boots-She's thin-Her legs get cold...but the sleeveless frock- not for shock- She's HOT... and her date is too.

pictures from STYLE.com and HuffingtonPOST.com