boat ride...

Shirley Berman, Larkspur 1960
by Wallace Berman

Dead Man
by Jim Jarmusch, 1995

david x 2

David Bowie by David LaChapelle

fashion flashback

- Paul Poiret -

evening dress, 1912 - Le Minaret costume

coats, 1919

Irudre evening gown, 1922

evening dress, 1911

Denise Poiret in Poiret dress, 1913

evening wrap, 1911

coat, 1911

Le Bal shoes, 1924

Rosine (perfume), 1925

the hobble skirt, 1919 - evening dress

- Kansai Yamamoto -

Marie Helvin in Yamamoto design
ph: Clive Arrowsmith

Futur Préhistorique by Paolo Roversi, 1980
(via decadediary.typepad.com)

skull

inspiration...

Skull with a Burning Cigarette
by Vincent van Gogh, 1886

Skull
by Vincent van Gogh, 1887-88

Alexander McQueen - EYES
2010 ad campaign

Buchinger’s Boot Marionette

- Calavera -

sugar skull
Day of the Dead (Mexican culture)

Gran calavera eléctrica
by José Guadalupe Posada

randoms

by Bert Stern

by Cindy Sherman, 1993

by Danil Golovkin

Guedra Dancers
by Irving Penn, 1972

Iselin Steiro
by Daniel Jackson

by Wendy Bevan

by Horst P. Horst

Etude sur le rEve de VEnus
by Horst P.Horst et Dali,1939

jacket by Frankie Morello

The Carrot
by Willem Frederik van Royen, 1699

Jack Nicholson

Pirate Jacket
by John Galliano, 2001

Union Jack jacket
by John Galliano, 1993

Flower (detail)
by Joos van Cleve

Mona Vanna Nuda
by Joos van Cleve

Sebastian Horsley

Tacie Emelyanova

Thisbe
by John William Waterhouse

Freddie Mercury
at his birthday party, 1985

Vincent Cassel

Death with a Flower
by Jean Carzou, 1964

Fish on a Bicycle (video still)
by Tony Kaye, 1996

Anna wintour

via Lady Lavona