My paradise Bird I, Chanel Collection Winter 2006, Paris, 2008
from Un Rêve de Mode exhibition, currently on view at Hamiltons Gallery in London [until the 31st of March]
thanks to La Lettre
Santa Muerte by Laurie Lipton *
charcoal & pencil on paper, 2011
Currently on view in London- as part of the group show @ Institute for Germanic & Romance Studies during Carnival of Death – Perceptions of Death in Europe and the Americas conference
with thanks to wurzeltod
Andree Claire and Evile Lynn as the Captives in the Pirate Scene, playing at the Piccadilly Hotel, London, in Playtime At The PiccadillyPiccadilly Playtime,c.1935
London, 1960
From England / Scotland 1960
Stripper Phyllis Dixey letting down the top of her dress and standing nude on stage at the Whitehall Theater, February 1944, London
by David E. Scherman *
from LIFE
[with thanks to exquisite eye of one liquidnight ;]
In 1936, Salvador DalÍ collaborated with fellow surrealist Sheila Legge to stage a surrealist happening in Trafalgar Square. Legge appeared as The Phantom of Sex Appeal dressed in a long white satin dress, her face completely obscured by paper roses and ladybirds. Photographs of this event showing pigeons perching on the Phantom’s arms have become an iconic surrealist image.
via Manchester Confidential [with thanks to Asha;]