Taken From Here.
Can I just say… I like her because she’s not pretty. So refreshing to see.
Another way of doing the silk dress.
Its the socks that makes the shoe.
Inspired by “The Lover” - Marguerite Duras
I’ve been in some sort of mood lately. Very inspired by the imagery Marguerite Duras paints in “The Lover”.
The near transparent silk of the narrator’s dress, with a man’s belt around the waist. A flat brimmed hat and gold lamé sandals.
Stills from the film adaptation of The Lover.
Produced by Claude Berri and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
L’Amant in French.
“And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor – “
— T.S. Eliot (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems)
Found here.
An image found after googling “Marguerite Duras”:
“I’ve known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you’re more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”
— Marguerite Duras, The Lover
—Red Hot Chilli Peppers in Vintage
Remembering Artists:
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A once famous poet, now forgotten.
She was the first woman who won the Pullitzer prize for poetry, and also published a best-selling collection of her work, all as an undergrad student.
Most noted for her work ‘first fig’:
“My Candle Burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends,
it gives a lovely light!”
Today, let’s celebrate and remember what’s so easily forgotten.
