The Ashes of Us

Odile (/oh-deal/), 23, Italy. Designer. Suedette first, everything else second.

The one thing you need to know about me is that I lost myself to music at a very early age and I remained there. Other than that I wholeheartedly believe that “Beauty Will Save The World” and I base my life around this motto. It's less about vanity and more about decay, it's to elevate the cultivation of beauty as a primary form of self-development. I'm fascinated by the human condition and that's why somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. And that's pretty much the highest form of beauty I can conceive.

As most of you probably know this man makes my heart smile like no one else, but it's not all about the cheekbones.



Just as night follows day, everything alive falls into decay. That's why I wish I had your heart, instead of mine.


The only relevant tag of this blog: My Scans

Music (Suede, David Sylvian / Japan , Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bigbang and YG family, Lush, Sigur Ròs, James Blake, Austra, The XX, Jonny Greenwood, Patrick Wolf, Duran Duran, Leonard Cohen, Villagers, Bright Eyes, Elliott Smith. Basically New Wave, Post-Rock, Brit Rock, Soundtrack Composers, Sad Songwriters, Self-Indulgent Electronica with some Kpop thrown in there just for colour.) Fashion + Models . Flower Boys. . Movies (Antonioni, Bergman, Bertolucci, Sofia Coppola, Garrel, Godard, Kieslowski, Rohmer, Truffaut, Van Sant, Visconti, Von Trier). Design. Books ( Foster Wallace, T.S. Eliot, Fitzgerald, McEwan, McGrath, Murakami, Proust, Woolf). TV shows ( Mad Men, The Crimson Petal and the White, Mildred Pierce, Lost, Fringe)

I like to have some connection with the people I decide to follow, so I don't follow back automatically. The easiest way is talking to me, I don't bite. I'm far from being mean but I find it impossible to follow :

a - People who don't understand the concept of "copyright" and don't credit contents properly.
b - livebloggers.
c - superficial fangirls.
d - anyone associated with an immature, irresponsible, hateful behaviour.

Some people call it being en elistist, I call it "having standards".

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"Fashion design is not about revealing or accentuating the shape of a woman’s body ; its purpose is to allow a person to be who they are. Fashion is interesting because it’s always moving. It always relates to social movement, politics and the current financial situation."
Rei Kawakubo in i-D, 1992 (via petrole)
"There are some things one cannot seize by realism, but by sheer poetry. I feel there is too much naturalism; It obscures moods, feelings, psychic states. I am fond of the lower depths, the underworlds. I never find myself fitting in a well assembled series of realistic events. I much rather prefer growth in an atmosphere of music, books and artists, always constructing, creating, writing, drawing, inventing plays, acting in them, writing a diary, living in created dreams as inside a cocoon, dreams born of reading, always reading, growing, disciplining myself to learn, to study, skirting abysses and dangers with incredible innocence, the body always sensitive but in flight from ugliness. I want to remain sincere and surround my innermost world with romance."
Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin Volume I 1931-1934 (via atramentum)
Thursday, 23 May 2013

Pieces of You

braveak:

Prologue.

My heart was closed. Cold.
I was self-conscious and cynical.

These are the pieces of my youth,
the smalls secrets and the not-so-good expectations
that defined my coming of age.

But through this craft, through my love for writing,
I discovered a world outside of the small windowless one
I had built for myself.
A world of soft spoken beauty.

So here I am,
choosing to kick away the ladder
so that I may remain at your side.

I understand your solitude.
I see your shadow

-Tablo

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Monday, 20 May 2013

joshtierney:

chezniimura:

Yoshitaka Amano meets David Bowie

Wow, can’t believe I never heard of this before. According to this interview (click), the artwork (of which there is a good deal more) also features Iman and most of the clothing is designed by Dior. Neil Gaiman later wrote a short story based on the art.

Amano + Bowie + Iman + Dior + Gaiman. Collaboration is a beautiful thing.


Kiko Mizuhara photographed by Nobuyoshi Araki

Kiko Mizuhara photographed by Nobuyoshi Araki

Sunday, 19 May 2013
"I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn’t matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display."
山本耀司 (via killheji)
I can’t believe I’m gonna see your stupid face in 10 days.
WE GOT TICKETS. WE GOT TICKETS. WE GOT TICKETS. WE GOT TICKETS. WE GOT TICKETS. 

I can’t believe I’m gonna see your stupid face in 10 days.

WE GOT TICKETS. 
WE GOT TICKETS. 
WE GOT TICKETS. 
WE GOT TICKETS. 
WE GOT TICKETS. 

 
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