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Icon Fem Queen, Octavia St. Laurent

Grace Jones | Love Is The Drug (1980)

Wales Bonner SS23 by Inès Manai

paris is burning (1991)

m le magazine du monde september 8th 2018 “le jeu de la séduction” adut akech photographed by harley weir

Alek Wek, Kadra Ahmed Omar, Kiara Kabukuru, Debra Shaw, Margareth Lahoussaye-Duvigny and Adia Coulibaly photographed by Peter Lindberg for Vogue Italia April 1997 Alta Moda

Hieronymus Bosch

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Netherlands (c. 1500)

Oil on panel, 220 x 195 cm.

Museo del Prado, Madrid

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I wanted to showcase some of the incredible detail this painting has to offer. All too often, high resolution images aren’t available or leave a lot to be desired (blurry, poorly-lit, et cetera).

I also wanted to include some of the implied Sapphic dalliances that may be going on in some of those pools.

More Images

Octavia Saint Laurent in Paris is Burning.

Debra Shaw by Dan Beleiu

The Canopic shrine found in Tutankhamun ’s tomb is protected by four statues of Goddesses, Isis, Nephthys, Serqet (Serket) and Neith. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.

Senegal, 1966 by John Scofield

Marsha P. Johnson at a Christopher Street Liberation rally with a curtain that has the words GAY LOVE written all over it, c. 1970s

Issey Miyake starring Alek Wek

photographyduc liaostylingedward enninful make-upmary-jane frost

2000 (minus 3) Curator and Fashion Director Terry Jones Production Design Dante Ferretti

Fashion/Cinema, Biennale di Firenze (1998)

Portrait de Marguerite, 1906, Henri Matisse 

“Far from his spiritual home, an African Muslim faces Mecca during prayer in Mopti, Mali, a trade center on the southern rim of the Sahara. His rooftop outpost on the sunbaked mud mosque overlooks a branch of the Niger River.”

Photograph from “The Sword and the Sermon” by Thomas J. Abercrombie, published in the July 1972 issue of National Geographic.

Man Ray: Ady Fidelin in front of the plaster sculpture “Albatros”, by Alberto Giacometti. / via Soler y Llach, c. 1937.

More photos:  here, here, here, and here.

Alek Wek at Balmain, Spring/Summer 2004

Nicoletta Branzi (1985)                   

FASHION.