Film noir

I'm feeling a bit mysterious.

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Thursday's inspiration

Lina Scheynius

Robyn Cumming

Dave Kinsey, 2008: Straight No Chaser. Mixed media on canvas

Dave Kinsey, 2008: Losing Faith. Mixed media on canvas

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Friday's inspiration

Erin Petson

Erin Petson

Erin Petson

Erin Petson

Jing Quek

Jing Quek

Susanna Majuri

Susanna Majuri

Susanna Majuri

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Suits

Yves Saint Laurent. Probably everyone has seen this photograph about million times, but it's something you just can't skip when talking about women's suits.

Marlene Dietrich, no wonder we still adore her.

Marlene Dietrich

And then a few pics from next fall's collections. I prefer the Chloé's one.

Chloé Fall 2009

Moschino Fall 2009

Richard Chai Fall 2009

And finally my favorite: Louise Brooks, a silent movie star who hasn't lost her charm. She wears it well. Not to diss Marlene Dietrich, but Brooks wears it...in a more mysterious way?

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Collar

Leave me alone!

Seems like I've been quite moody lately...


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(dress: thrifted from Paris)

I'm still playing with Dolls

Please don't wake me up!

Sometimes you really don't want to wake up.


Sleep mask: self made
Nightgown: thrifted


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Jumping!

Brightens up in the winter!

Leather pants and mannequin

Leather pants & dress: Selected Femme
Shoes: Pertti Palmroth
Everything else thrifted

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The Bowtie Dance

Inspiration: Filonov

Peasant Family (Holy Family), 1914. Oil on canvas.

Flowers of the Universal Flowering, 1916. Oil on canvas.

A White Picture, 1919. Oil on canvas.


At the Table, 1912-1913. Oil on canvas.


Pavel Filonov (1883-1941) was a Russian painter, poet and art theorist. He refused to sell his works hoping to create a museum of analytical art, and was forgotten for decades because his art didn't correspond to social realism, which was the only art movement allowed in USSR. Filonov actually died of hunger during the siege of Leningrad on December 3rd 1941. His works were saved by his sister Evdokia Glebova and later she gave his paintings and graphic works to the Russian State Museum, which is where nearly all of them can now be found.
His first personal exhibition took place only in 1988, more than 50 years after his death.



I absolutely love Filonov's works and find them extremely beautiful and inspirational. You?

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