Cyd Charisse rules.
How seductive.

Flamenca!!

& also for those two.

Zelda & F.Scoot Fitzgerald

I do have a soft spot for those two.

                                                                                                              

Workshop visit: The Hermes silk scarf workshops in Lyon

Talking about optical illusions..

Here's a good one.

This is probably the best of Erté & my favorite.  A masterpiece.  
The optical illusions with the black shadow of the trees, the butterflies & more...  
Keep looking dearest viewers & all starts moving, to be alive!
Simplement génial mon Erté.

Fantasia, 1920.

Peace & Freedom.

The majestic Taiwan Blue Magpie.

Machu Picchu here I come!

I'm in the mood for some showers. Here's 2 very different options.  

Loving the hotel combined bath/shower one & also, perhaps preferring, 
the simple, "en plein air" more rugged one.  
Together they form a sort of symbiosis.

Fashion is a rich world encompassing ALL.  
Here is our one & only.
The Grand Marchesa Luisa Casati.
by Man Ray.

That's a good look!
Loving every bits about it.  The leather, the goggle, the rider chick, the BMW helmet.  Those WWII beemer bikes were such aesthetic machines & I could care less if the "Nazi" used them.

Banned advertising...

En suite bath & bathroom.

It's Beltane time.

Baccarat. . .

Venetian-style drinking glass.  This particular goblet was made in 1550-1600 & was much admired in Tudor England.

Presently at V&A.

On this sunny beautiful Sunday.
Astrud in italian.

Simply roses.

My kind of staircase.

Chocolate "wax" seal for cakes.

One of my preferred song.  

Always going back to her.

It's Spring in Central Park!

Good soundtrack.

Painful beauty.  Scarification.

Peacock Spider...

Held by Guy de Rothschild at the Chateau de Ferrières on December 2nd 1971, the Bal Proust remains one of the most breathtaking parties of the 70s.  Despite well into his sixties, Cecil Beaton was the official photographer for the evening. 

When he shooted a 24 year-old Marisa Berenson, Beaton described her as "a sparkling butterfly on a mountain of feathers, with a red wig, a face as white as flour, eyes encircled in black & scarlet lips." 

Here is Miss Berenson as Marchesa Luisa Casati.

Zebras, Serengeti