A Private World

Tim Walker for Vogue Italia. November, 2008.

Last night, I had a dream that Ted took a hiatus from Trading Post to go back to photography. In my dream, I found an attic (basement? vault?) full of old, never-before-seen fairy tale and Lovecraftian paintings and illustrations, I showed them to Teddy, and he spent months translating the art we dug up into a massive fashion editorial. Ted was using a daguerreotype, a 19th century box camera, and my dad’s 35mm Nikon, and his studio was our living room, but wasn’t. Ted’s photos looked like a hybrid of Ted’s style of photography and Eugenio Recuenco’s. He eventually turned the project into a sort of phantasmagoria, complete with spectres and Pepper’s ghosts.

What did you dream about last night?

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These links are mostly for my reference. Sustainable underpantzes!

Ayten Gasson

BrookThere

Clare Bare

Luva Huva

Peau Ethique

Of Adam’s first wife, Lilith, it is told
(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)
That, ere the snake’s, her sweet tongue could deceive,
And her enchanted hair was the first gold.
And still she sits, young while the earth is old,
And, subtly of herself contemplative,
Draws men to watch the bright net she can weave,
Till heart and body and life are in its hold.

The rose and poppy are her flowers; for where
Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent
And soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare?
Lo! as that youth’s eyes burned at thine, so went
Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent,
And round his heart one strangling golden hair.

I adore this photo, and would love to know which fashion editorial this hails from.

A Lover’s Gaze: A Vanity Fair photoessay on eye miniatures from the 1700’s and 1800’s.

Alexi Lubomirski

Saving this link for myself!

Per Anjou:

1. Pre-wash and pre-soak your fabric. It is best to use 100% natural fabrics that are undyed. I have recently fallen in love with China silk habotai because it’s elegant and billowy without the price pitfall of crepe de chine.

2. Chop up your food source into little tiny bits (but not so tiny that they can’t be strained out). For onions and plums, use only the skins

3. Prepare the water base in a large pot: add the water in a 2:1 ratio of water to food source (so if you have 2 cups of chopped bits, add 4 cups of water)

4. Boil the mixture for approximately an hour

5. Strain out food source and return liquid dye to pot

6. Add salt or vinegar, depending on the food source, to the water and mix. For fruits and vegetables, add 1/2 cup of salt to every 8 cups of water. For plant material, add 1 part vinegar to 4 parts water). Salt and vinegar act as fixatives for the dye.

7. Add your pre-soaked fabric to the dye, stirring thoroughly, and bring up to a boil

8. Depending on how dark you would like the dyed fabric to be, boil your fabric in the dye for any length of time up to about an hour and a half. At that point, your dye is probably exhausted.

9. Hand wash your fabric in cold water and organic detergent at least twice to ensure that all of the dye and fixative are out of the fabric, rinse, and hang dry or lay flat.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.