And Still I Evolve

Anna Sui - ss26

Ashi Studio fall couture 2026

Alice Walker captured by Vandell Cobb in a garden, ca. 1992. From the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

“The photo on the cover of Have One on Me was modeled after typical Orientalist fantasy-figure iconography, like an odalisque or a Venus in Furs—a sort of cartoonish amalgamation of feminine signifiers stylized to illustrate the Lacanian idea “Woman is a symptom of man.” Annabel Mehran, the photographer, used black-and-white film that the artist Becca Mann later hand-tinted over with watercolors. The idea was to mock-up a shabby, 1920s Parisian studio with an absinthe-dulled lady posing on a divan in bits of old drapery fabric, and then paint over the resulting tableau into some idealized, Technicolor, hedonistic fantasy set. The specifically female, earthbound, corporeal, and decadent character in that album art reflects the character of those songs’ narrator as well as the idea of feminine self-diminishment.” -Joanna Newsom

Interacting galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 in the Corvus constellation

Lalique 1902-03 'Dancing Nymphs in a Frame of Bats' Brooch: centering on a carved French artificial ivory plaque, depicting five dancing nymphs in relief, w/in a blue enamel bat frame, mounted in 18k gold.

By Bruce Weber 1991