hot vooodoo, burn my clothes, i want to start dancing, just wearing a smile....

marlene dietrich sings hot voodoo in blonde venus, 1932



marlene dietrich & clive brook in shanghai express, 1932.....such a divine film!



marlene dietrich singing "the boys in the backroom" with james stewart in destry rides again, 1939

the queen

her majesty queen elizabeth II, an exclusive preview of the national portrait gallery exhibition of her portraits commemorating her diamond jubilee, schön! magazine #11.

the gun will wait

matvey lykov photographed by vassilis karidis for dapper dan, spring/summer 2011.

i'm your woman

eniko mihalik photographed by maciek kobielski & styled by darcy backlar for muse #23, spring/summer  2011.

covet-able

cacharel open back silk blouse, $565, la garçonne

victoria beckham two-tone lizard & leather clutch, $2750, net-a-porter

vivienne westwood pirate patchwork patent-leather & nubuck brogues, $420, net-a-porter

1930s art deco pink glass necklace, silver plated brass, $135, erie basin

bohem rapsodi

malgosia bela photographed by cüneyt akeroğlu & styled by ece sükan for vogue turkey, april 2011.

bambi

bambi northwood-blyth photographed by tierney gearon & styled by sophia neophitou for 10 magazine, spring/summer 2011.

swoon

photographer jeffrey martin used a robot-controlled canon 550d to document the philosophical hall, a baroque reading room located in the 868 year old strahov monastery library in prague. the finished strahov library panorama is a zoomable, high resolution peek into the repository of rare books that is off limits to tourists. there are 42,000 volumes in the collection of just about every important book available in central europe at the end of the 18th century. read more about the process here. it's pretty amazing - you can actually zoom in and look at the books close up.  le sigh!