During an interview about her incredible costumes for the film Crimson Peak (2015), Kate Hawley mentioned two paintings that particularly inspired her design of the leading female cast’s iconic attire. Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1874, top left) was taken into consideration for the character Lucille Sharpe, otherwise known as The Moth (top right). For Edith Cushing (bottom right), thought of as The Butterfly in contrast, The Bridesmaid by John Everett Millais (1851, bottom left) was said to have greatly influenced the character’s hauntingly beautiful look of cascading hair and the bridal-esque nightgown attire.
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in "a passionate apprentice"
Meeting my past selves
alienby.comics have published some really great trangender comics over at Instagram.
She writes this about the comic above:
Inner child pulling through!! 😭 Before all the learned gender performance and internalized transphobia is a sincere kid who sees the beauty in themself and others without judgment… I strive to be that person again. But while it’s easier to love and empathize with my inner 5 year old self, some day I hope I’ll be able to hug my inner 13 year old self too. They were doing their best with the narrow view of love they had been shown. I know better now ❤️
Yulianna Sardar photographed by Anastasia Lisitsyna for MY812 Fall/Winter 2019.
