my life is a yohji yamamoto lookbook

august sander. halting sentences. localized saturation on faded photos.
welcome to the lookbook life.
Tagged: Strong women / Lookbook life //
/ Lush days, Lush nights / On aesthetics.
/ ART / people of the lookbook life.

Sep 29

Play and listen.

Sep 28

“Mallarmé reminds us of the possibility of reading before we know what to think. It’s as easy as that, as long as we are not too afraid of being wrong. In the academic world hardly anyone does it. You have to be ready for all the things that happen to someone who doesn’t read as if they belong with, or to, the right side, the side of mastery.”

— Sarah Wood, Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces

Beginner’s mind.

(via onaperduamedee)

Apr 15

(via kainoliero)

Jul 17

monview:

Björk x Yohji Yamamoto, F/W 2003 for “Another Magazine" by Craig McDean

(via theforgottencorner)

Jan 22

dekonstruktivisme:

Olivier Theyskens autumn—winter 1999—00.
For the Winter of 1999-2000 he wanted an extremely refined collection, with the occasional discord. The unity of his monochrome silhouettes was broken by several mannequins on the runway, enfolded in impressive constructions of material. “L’antinomique de l’extrémisme”, as he puts it himself.
Olivier Theyskens: I wanted this collection to be extreme. Monochrome black, with a touch of blue and white. At the same time there was the desire to go beyond the extreme, to show the absurd.
The hardest thing is to finish a collection, to see what you want to see. It’s like a Brazilian who has made his carnival costume: he’ll spend six months making it, the stress for him will be that everything has to be perfect at the moment of the carnival parade.
The history of costumes is interesting especially for keeping your feet on the ground, and for knowing that you’re not doing anything extraordinary either. Just look at everything that has been done in the past, and you come right back down to earth.
In twenty years’ time people will be able to see that my clothes were made in 1999, and they will probably be very difficult to wear.

Jan 7

“In Sappho’s poem, her addresses to Gods are orderly, perfect poetic products, but the way—and this is the magic of fragments—the way that poem breaks off leads into a thought that can’t ever be apprehended. There is the space where a thought would be, but which you can’t get hold of. I love that space. It’s the reason I like to deal with fragments. Because no matter what the thought would be if it were fully worked out, it wouldn’t be as good as the suggestion of a thought that the space gives you. Nothing fully worked out could be so arresting, so spooky.” Anne Carson, from an interview in ‘The Art of Poetry No. 88′ (via prewars)

(via sylvides)

“

she…
longs to
run herself aground
in a sad secret death.

Is it a god inside you, girl?

” Euripides, from Hippolytos, Grief Lessons: Four Plays tr. Anne Carson
(via lifeinpoetry)

(via sylvides)

rainymoodselection:

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata [x]

(via melancolia-deactivated20171122)

Dec 29

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Maria Bartuszová
Untitled, 1985

Dec 17

nadiacreek:

theblogginggoth:
By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!
This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

(via yakisobani)