Glamour, seduction and the hat! Paintings by Tamara De Lempicka



Women on Tamara's canvas are irresistibly sexy through their confident look, elegant poise and sophisticated dress. I love how the hat creates a tantalizing shadow over each of their face and how harmoniously it goes with either simple or glamourous dress.
by Tamara De Lempicka

 


What a beauty the artist is! See the resembleness between her look and those in her paintings...
Tamara De Lempicka, photographed by d' Ora Studio, Paris, 1929

 

Simple shirt plus short haircut, cool and classy.

Still remember that how-to-wear-boyfriend-shirt youtube clip in which the girl, well, almost naked one, with only a shirt covered up? Bunch of good tricks on how to twist and knot a shirt, but does it really look like a piece of wearable dress and how many girls have the guts to put it on for real? Nahnah, not for me at least..I still prefer the traditional way of wearing a man's shirt - simply tuck it in a pair of jeans, and if you wanna complete the cool look, go get a super short haircut:) Worth to try in this warmer and warmer spring, huh?

Francoise Hardy



Katherine Hepburn



Style of a kind, Anouk Aimee.

Anouk Aimee, La fleur de l'âge, 1947

Twiggy's four hair styles.

1966, photo by Barry Lategan

One of my bedroom wall decors.

Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, 1950, photographed by Robert Doisneau

Alice in Wonderland, Penelope Tree.



Penelope, photographed by Richard Avedon, 1966

 


New York, July 1967, by Richard Avedon

 

He in stripe..cute huh?

James Dean

David Bowie

in Florence, photographed by Scott Schuman

The painter:)

Sexy of a kind, Singer Sade Adu.

Suffocatingly mesmerizing...



Isabella Rossellini by Steven Meisel for Dolce Gabbana



Ballerina pose and a hint of leopard print.

Luminated skin.



Lucy Ferry by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1986




Isabella Rossellini by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1988




Melody by Robert Mapplethorpe 1987



"Dogs are people with more hair." by Elliott Erwitt

2000 New York by Elliott Erwitt



1946 New York by E.E.



1974 Central Park by E.E.





Style of a kind, Diane Keaton.



by Tim Street-Porter



Seductive, cool, enigmatic, elegant...it's all about Lace.




Kate Moss

 


Maggie Cheung




Isabelle Adjani



Gloria Swanson



Simple color with some detail makes a lovely summer dress:)



photo by Ilona Olkonen



Birdie, birdie!



A bird in hand photo by Greg Westfall





Audrey during the filming of 'Two For the Road', 1967





by Norman Parkinson



Dress up and walk your dog.



Barbara Mullen, New York, by Norman Parkinson





Paris, 1950s, by Robert Capa



Well, yeah..maybe I should do knitting sometimes.




Savannah,  by Scott Schuman

 


Mexico, Durango, 1960. Audrey's knitting during a break in John Huston's movie 'The Unforgiven'


Once in a while, my periodical impulse of trying something really cool and fun always drives me out of my bed, well, so to speak, my desk plus occasional coffee/brunch table, onto streets, parks, zoos, restaurants, flea markets, garages....any weird places you name it:) But knitting at a street corner has never occured to me as cool or sexy or fuuun (isn't it a kinda handwork associates with my dear granny? It doesn't even count as craftsmanship, right?)...untill I find these yummy yarning pictures with girls in such an easy, mellow, elegant look coupled with incredibly simple, casual yet stylish outfits. Wow, it absolutely changed my mindset of knitting forever!! Yes, yeah, it can be fun and cool and sexy as long as you enjoy it as long as you know exactly what your own style is and as long as you are being yourself in the moment :-)

MY blue muse - Hope Sandoval.

Elusive, reclusive, adrift, remote, warm, chilly....what a wierd, mysterious, mesmerising combination of vocal. Yes, it's my narcotic goddess, Hope Sandoval, a rose blossoming only in a dim of blue light. In the mid of sleepless night, listen to her whispering 'Wild Roses' upon your ear, and you know it's heaven. zZZZ.....nightie.sweet dream!