Inspiration: Naughty Paris

                             

Édouard Manet, Nana, 1877: based on Émile Zola's novel Nana about a Parisian prostitute who rises to fame and promiscuity in seedy Second Empire Paris. Juicy, reading it now.

Nicole Kidman as Satine in Moulin Rouge: my favourite whore and possibly most favourite sexy undergarments.

Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863: come and get me boys (very naughty).

Édouard Manet, Bal masqué a l'opéra, 1873: profitable industry, why don't they take their wives with them?

                                                                   

Lauren

400th Anniversary

2010 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Love Love Love.

[Lauren]

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich. German Romanticist. My favourite landscape painter.

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French Twists

Vogue US 2004. Annie Leibovitz. Gerard Depardieu. Gisele Bundchen. Karen Elson. Gemma Ward. Mon Dieu, C'est L'amour.

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An Admirable Miscreant

I'm having another craving for Barry Lyndon. Despite sending some viewers to sleep, it is one of my absolute favourite films. Everything about it is so beautiful. I think Elyse would agree with me on that point. This is the first movie to make me appreciate the effects of lighting and camera direction. The scenery, costumes, music! and story are sublime ( that is the only word to use). Or perhaps melancholic beauty? An 18th century story, Keira Knightley free.

[Lauren]

Barry Lyndon, 1975, directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Piano Trio in E Flat - Schubert

Sarabande - Handel

Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome

Paris, France: 29 Avenue Rapp: door (art nouveau, 1901, architect Jules Lavirotte, sculptor Jean-Baptise Larrive)

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