LRT "Pretty in Pink" was actually one of the movies featured in the earliest 90's lolita-themed CUTiE issue, Vol. 14, March 1993. Molly Ringwald's role as Andie Walsh was listed as one of the "Three Neo-Lolitas in Film" to take fashion inspo from, complete with concept coords.
Fifth Ave shuts down for hats 🎩🌸
The Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival started in the 1800s as a post church fashion stroll outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
Now it’s pure NYC chaos. No rules. Just creativity. 🗽
No place like NYC!
Ainda chocada com os vestidos e joias da Maria Antonieta! Tudo luxuoso e chiquérrimo! Fico imaginando na época como as pessoas reagiam quando ela chegava nos bailes! 😍
In Pennsylvania and beyond (ca. 1790–1830) official documents such as baptismal records, land deeds, and birth registries were lettered in German fraktur script, and decorated with the hearts, vines, and tulips that came to characterise fraktur folk art: https://t.co/zbGaJlpwEQ
Illustrations from the beguiling Clavis Artis, a German alchemical manuscript which claims to hail from the 13th century and have pages made from dragon skin: https://t.co/3QEsmte3mP
I haven't shared this in awhile, but if you want to see a lot of the old Halloween postcards that influenced Over the Garden Wall, I went hunting.
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Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896) — an Art Nouveau reference book full of elaborate ornamentation: winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs, warring sea creatures, and more... https://t.co/6GknoAT7yp
Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales (1913), a book of Turkish folk stories collected by Hungarian-born linguist Ignác Kúnos, with illustrations by Hungarian illustrator Willy Pogany: https://t.co/NYDRG4gj6p
A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: https://t.co/Zki5D0VxVe
Under His Eye - The Handmade’s Tale Series Is Coming To An End. Don’t Miss This Amazing Exhibit Featuring Costumes and Props From The Show - https://t.co/YElMtV1nEl
Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840–1913) — also known as “The Butter Woman” or the “Centennial Butter Sculptress” — was famous for her sculptures fashioned entirely out of.... yes, butter. More here: https://t.co/kjqeMnYAPU
When Persephone returns from the underworld, the earth exhales in crocus and clover. Her ascent is not simply seasonal — it is cosmic rhythm, the ancient pulse of seed breaking shell, of grief softening into green. #FolkloreSunday
🎨Phil Meade