Wedding Dress
Cristóbal Balenciaga
1957
The dress has a jewel neckline, fitted bodice and kimono sleeves. The skirt has a bell shape and is shorter at the front than the back, where it extends to form a short train. The dress fastens down the centre back with a zip and hook. Lined with ivory silk taffeta. This wedding dress was made in Spain for the daughter of Sonsoles Díez de Rivera y de Icaza, Marchioness of Llanzol. Balenciaga chose a model with simple lines and a long asymmetrical skirt, perfect for the occasion. The exquisite decoration reveals Balenciaga’s taste for ornate metallic thread embroidery, reminiscent of historic Spanish embroidery. The couturier later developed this line in his evening dresses, which became known as the “peacock-tail”.
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Kirsty Mitchell’s late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen’s death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography.
She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. The photographic series began as a small summer project but grew into an inspirational creative journey.
‘Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,’ said the artist. (read the rest here).
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This is so amazing!
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"Because when a man tells a Black woman that she looks mixed as a form of endearment, he’s insinuating that her beauty comes from the (allegedly) non-Black part of her. All they’re effectively saying is: You’re too beautiful to just be Black. Oh, but I am. I’m beautiful just like my beautiful Black mother, just like her mother and her mother’s mother. We’re generations of women born right here in the US of A, from North Carolina to Massachusetts by way of the motherland. Brown skin, nappy hair, cornbread and gravy gorgeous. We aren’t beautiful in spite of our Blackness, we are beautiful because of it. So don’t dare try to give the credit to anything else."
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Shayla Pierce, Why Saying I Look “Mixed” Isn’t A Compliment (via theraceproblem)
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