a coney island of the mind

Elle Fanning photographed by Collier Schorr for i-D, fall 2015.

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“High over the city, our yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrets to the casual watcher in the street. And I was him, too. Looking up and wondering…I was within and without. Enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.“

“Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, and then on not-so very special day, I sat down at my type-writer and I wrote down our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But most importantly, a story about love. A love that will live forever. The end.”

For the “drunk” dance on Holiday Inn (1942), Fred Astaire had two drinks of bourbon before the first take and one before each succeeding take. The seventh and last take was used in the film. (x)

Lana Del Rey photographed by Alexandra Gordienko for Marfa Journal

Stoker (2013)

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Shall We Dance  (Mark Sandrich, 1937)

The Dior set was built in Cour carre du Louvre and includes over 300,000 delphiniums

Photos by Nikolai Krusser

“Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet and dancing slippers had slipped away and there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies and turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.” 

ABT’s Courtney Lavine photographed by Kenneth B Edwards

Edie Sedgwick getting ready for a photoshoot with Jerry Schatzberg, 1966

Mary Astor shows you the door, 1928