Carrie Fisher, from The Princess Diarist.

— Mahmdou Darwish

— Sylvia Plath

  - Gene Tierney, when asked about her suicidal thoughts.

Details III : A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889, by Van Gogh.

Model wearing a Mainbocher dress on the Eiffel Tower for Harper’s Bazaar, Paris, 1939

Sherilyn Fenn | Twin Peaks

— Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart (via quotespile)

Palais Galliera

113 years ago today in Paris, Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix made some noise. She sent three models to the horse races in her designs; sans corset, comfortably form fitting, naturally figure flattering, and open up to the knee.. In todays terms the dresses went viral. Basically, the original bodycon dress. Having inherited her mothers fashion house almost a decade earlier, she set off a lot of fundamental changes about what we wear, how we wear it, and the way we see attire altogether (especially women’s attire.) She also ditched standard corsets of the time and debatably reformed the whole concept of underwear. Thanks Jeanne, we appreciate it! 

Her strength, perhaps, was not joke telling. Nor was she jocular in a conventional sense— no practical joker, Garbo. But more than one drollery escaped her lips. One day, S. N. Behrman was waiting for her to show up for a meeting at MGM. “I went to the men’s room,” he said, “and there was Greta. I asked her what she was doing there. She said, ‘I’m watching the view.’