self portrait

I love London because I love you.

the most beautiful book spread I’ve ever seen.

Flounce (detail). Bobbins. ‘Blonde’. Spain, Barcelona area, 1830-60

Polychrome silk and gold thread 45 x 410 cm Paris, collection Mmes Carmen Martinez and Viviane Grimminger

The decoration is of cornucopiae, flowering branches of convolvulus, narcissi, roses, pansies and lupins, sprinkled with butterflies, and with a border of leaves and nuts.

The cornucopiae and ears of wheat are worked in gold thread: the ground is in black silk.

This lace belonged to the family of the sculptor Julio Gonzalez, a friend of Picasso.

vanilla, pistachio, jasmine, ‘Marie Antoinette’

from laduree.

Vivienne Westwood knitwear from Spring 1994 RTW and ‘On Liberty’ AW 1994 will always be on my mind.

The silver wedding dress has a permanent place in my brain.

fascinated by the marriage of eastern and western fashion influences in the 19th-20th century.

Dress made of kosode fabric embroidered in white silk with floral patterns. Of the rokumeiken era. 1880s.

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Thinking about: Alexander McQueen for Givenchy A/W 1999-2000.

Brown chiffon, satin and taffeta dress with Lesage embroidery and glass buttons with encased dried foliage.

semper desiderari

silk hand embroidery on a shirt I crocheted and sewed last summer of my dead dog