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The Private World of YSL
Yves Saint Laurent residence photographed by Ivan Terestchenko “This is not a book on decoration. It is a window on two shared lives.” ~Pierre Bergé Those with the most discerning of tastes,… more →
The Errant Æsthete
The Private World of YSL
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eÆsthete wrote 2 days ago: Yves Saint Laurent residence photographed by Ivan Terestchenko “This is not a book on decoration. … more →
Requiescat in Pace: Karl Malden & Pina Bausch
eÆsthete wrote 2 days ago: Academy Award Winning Actor Karl Malden (1912-2009) and Vivien Leigh in Tennessee Williams … more →
Notable Aesthete: Noel Coward
eÆsthete wrote 4 days ago: “Why am I always expected to wear a dressing-gown, smoke cigarettes in a long holder … more →
Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009
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eÆsthete wrote 1 week ago: Adored and Devoured. Requiescat in Pace … more →
Ease Unrehearsed
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eÆsthete wrote 1 week ago: Cecil Beaton resplendent in his fourth costume of the evening as host of his garden party. Circa 19 … more →
Famed Fury: Leonore Fini
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eÆsthete wrote 1 week ago: Leonore Fili, LIFE, 1947 Leonore Fini. 1908 – 1996. Famed Argentine surrealist painter (altho … more →
Requiescat in Pace : Fleur Cowles
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eÆsthete wrote 3 weeks ago: “I’ve worked hard, and I’ve made a fortune, and I did it in a man’s world, … more →
Dear Miss Reed
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eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: Recently released letters from soldiers to Donna Reed, the actress and archetypal sweetheart of the … more →
Phantom of the Night
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eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: Peter Hujar, Woolworth Building, 1976 A special thanks to Paul Pincus who recently posted a photo o … more →
Being Cary Grant
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eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: “It was Cary Grant’s innate sense of how to be a man that transcended everythin … more →
The Indelible Avedon
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eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: “A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it i … more →
The Divine Mrs. V
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eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: Diana Vreeland and Mannequin in Balenciaga, New York, 1973. Photo: Harry Benson The legendary edit … more →
The Genius of Falling Water
eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: “Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.” So said, by his own immodest admi … more →
View from the Top
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eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: Anon. Bourke-White On The Chrysler Building 1931 Gelatin silver print LIFE Time Life Pictures/Time … more →
Wildely Wisdom
eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiori … more →
Anatomie de l'élégance
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eÆsthete wrote 2 months ago: “She is beautiful,” Lartigue told his diary. “The small mouth with the full pai … more →
Gene Kelly Taps on Wheels
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eÆsthete wrote 2 months ago: Never before, never again — the incomparable Gene Kelly taps on skates from the film … more →
Cool as Ice
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eÆsthete wrote 2 months ago: Suzy Parker, the Seine, 1953. Photo: Louise Dahl-Wolfe Suzy Parker, the willowy, red-headed beauty … more →
Afterword
eÆsthete wrote 2 months ago: [Lady] Diana Cooper visiting Iris Tree, dying in the Sister Agnes hospital, says to the nurs … more →
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