AJ Abualrub by Alasdair McLellan

Chez Yves:

A Look We Like

Count Zakhar Chernyshev, Roslin.

Socializing

Why Don't You?

In Statuo Quo Ante

One of Lisbon Royal Palaces bombed in the course of the republican revolution. Portugal, 1910.

Good Girls

Marie Madeleine d'Aubray, Marchioness de Brinvilliers, french serial killer, after her imprisonment, 1676. Charles Le Brun.

Windberg Abbey Church. Ceiling by Franz Xaver Merz

Perspective study of a chalice by Paolo Ucello

The Garter Investiture of the Prince of Wales ( future King Edward VIII and future Duke of Windsor ). The Prince is accompanied by the King of Portugal and the Duke of Connaught.

Heads Up

A Look We Like

We Are Family

Texture

Detail of queen Marie Antoinette's room. Fontainebleau Palace. France

Amen

Magister Dixit:

 "I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long" 

- Karl Lagerfeld

Rua Augusta Triumphal Arch,  Lisbon, Portugal.

Privilège du Blanc

A Look We Like

Philip of Spain, Duke of Parma. Jean Ranc, 1725.

Les Amoureux

Strike a Pose

L'Odyssée de Cartier

Still Life with Silver Torch. Meiffren Comte.

The Dream. Michelangelo, 1533.

Show Boys

Olé

Casual Friday

 Elizabeth I in Partiament Robes, 1580's. Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.

Magister Dixit:

"Please don't say I work hard. Nobody is forced to do this job and if they don't like it, they should do another one. If it's too much, do something else. But don't start doing it and then say, 'Aaaah, it's too much'. Because a lot of people depend on it. What we do at Chanel, thousands of people work on these things; these things are sold in hundreds and hundreds of shops all over the world. People like the big machine, and the money the big machine involves, but the effort... Then, suddenly, they become artists. They are too weak. Too fragile. Non. We have to be tough. We cannot talk about our suffering. People buy dresses to be happy, not to hear about somebody who suffered over a piece of taffeta. Me, I like to make an effort. I like nothing better than concrete reality. I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant." 

- Karl Lagerfeld

A Swag of Flowers, Jacob Van Walscapelle