— Viv Albertine

Federico Garolla, Roma, 1953

Susan Bottomly AKA International Velvet in Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls (1966). She replaced Edie Sedgwick as Warhol's new unofficial "Girl of the Year" in 1966.

Miranda (Anne Lambert) collects flowers on St. Valentine’s Day in a deleted scene from Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Brigitte Bardot photographed by Chiara Samugheo.

She has a great understanding of people, real people, and there is something awfully warm about her that stretches out to them. She has what the French call la tendresse. As a friend of hers said the other day, “She is a greater woman than an actress – and she is a swell actress.” - "Serious Side of a Screwball” (Screenland, January 1939)

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Illustrations from Stories from Hans Christian Andersen by Edmund Dulac (1911)

France Gall, c. 1968.

american sterling silver and enamel eros and psyche relief vesta case, c. 19oo

December 8

American Falls from Goat Island, Niagara, 1908

Edna McClure, 1910