[Fashion] is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. I don’t think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization.
words, books, fashion, food, everything beautiful, everything divers.
@jaepickrell plays with primary colors—could she be prepping for the fourth of July? #imapreviewgirl #mystyle @previewmag (Taken with Instagram)
Tina Chow
We are perennially encouraged to cultivate our own style. But when I think of this woman and the kind of surreal glamour she glided in at night and the clean austerity she exuded during the day, I can’t help but want to cop her identity. She transcended chic so effortlessly, and no one even comes close to this day.
Tina Chow
Appreciation should be much more private than everyone recognizing what you’re wearing. It’s better not to buy the ‘significant clothes’ of a season, because even though they are really marvelous things, there are others which are just as beautiful, and quiet. I don’t think we are meant to go around just being great consumers of things…. There’s no point parading in all sorts of finery if it’s hollow underneath.
Tina Chow and Michael Chow by Helmut Newton
Rosemary’s Baby, 1969
Famous writers and their typewriters.
@jaepickrell gives an all black outfit a boost with leather shoulder pads and fringe. #imapreviewgirl #mystyle @previewmag (Taken with Instagram)
Just Finished
You think dying gives you the right to do anything?
Nobuyoshi Araki: A Sentimental Journey, Winter Journey
—where the Japanese photographer chronicles his married life with the writer Yoko Araki, until her death in 1990.
When I look at photos I see no eros or passion. It doesn’t matter if it is a picture of a city landscape, or a woman or Mt. Fuji. They are all surface, no penetration.
Arākī on modern photography
[via www.japanfocus.org]
There is nothing more interesting than women, and nothing more exciting. Their biggest attraction is being mysterious. You absolutely cannot understand them.
…Every woman has an interesting face and life. If it were possible, I would like to live forever, and to face every woman.
Arākī
[via The New York Times]
Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
Butter means they love you. Butter means they know you’re hurting. Butter means they’ve missed you or that they’re sorry. Butter means they’re glad to see you. Butter means they want to kill you, just a little, but make it worth every shaved instant of life.
Just Finished
…two food and drink-related comics: the largely absurd Chew, Volume 1, which no one should bother picking up at all,
and the best wine manga in the world, The Drops of God. A fascinating page-turner that focuses, in this volume, largely on Burgundy, a region I’ve been meaning to explore. Highly recommended for its recommendations of reasonably priced bottles from the daunting region. Gives you tons of info, and best of all, a license to drink.
