Back at work - Happy Monday!

                       Back at the office. Here is a gorgeous one.
         I especially like the colors. The gold with the beige, light blue and grey.

































               This office space was found here at The decorista

Maud Wagner - the first known female tattoo artist in the U.S.

In 1907, Maud Wagner traded a date with her husband-to-be for tattoo lessons. She was later to become the first known female tattooist in the U.S and she is absolutely gorgeous. The tattoos, her dress, the way she carries herself. She is just stunning. This is a great portrait of a girl to be remembered.   

One can read more about her in the book Bodies of Subversion: A secret History of Women and Tattoo, by Margot Mifflin. The New Yorker has written about it in their article A secret history of women and tattoo.

Looks like a doll, dances like a demon

                               

Vivienne Westwood

and the English National Ballet.

For Vivienne Westwood's SS 13 collection she has collaborated with the the English National Ballet with a result so beautiful. These images are captivating. The garmens used here were not only from her latest collection but also from her extensive archive. 

                             Featuring (left to right) - Jennie Harrington, Sayako Tomiyoshi,
                           Daniel Kraus, Stina Quagebeur, Ksenia Ovsyanick, Laurent Liotardo

                                       

Happy Monday! Back at work.

Hope you have a good week ahead. 

It would be even better for me if I would be working behind a gorgeous desk like this... But I'm not. Will have to do somehting about that. Jane Aldridge is the lucky girl who's desk and office space this is. 

I found this picture on her blog Sea of shoes

 

                                   This desk is found here 

Marie Antoinette's shoes sold for 50 000 Euros

Even though Marie Antoinette is famous for being good at spending - she did not spend

50 000 Euros on a pair of slippers. But that someone did, in October last year,

when her shoes were sold to the highest bidder at auction house Paris Druout. 

The buyer's identity is still a secret.

They are beautiful but clearly we are as good at spending after the Revolution as they were before it...

 

Read more about the sale here.