“I went out into the rainy dusk, and grew utterly drunk with the marvellous sadness of a night of heavy mist.”— Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me (tr. by Jeannette Howard Foster), 1904
Paris Was A Woman
Female artists, socialites, and icons of the early 1900s.
How flower-like are the smiling lips so many have desired,
Curled lips that love’s long kisses have left a little tired.
— Olive Custance, “The White Witch”
Louise Brooks
A rare photo of Galina Ulanova as Princess Florine in the Mariinsky’s “Sleeping Beauty”. 1928. Partnered by Boris Obukhov.
several unique designs by nadezhda lamanova from 1920s ussr, modelled in order by lilya brik, elsa triolet, an unknown model and at last alexandra khokhlova.
Salvador and Gala Dali photographed by Cecil Beaton with Dali’s Couple with their Heads Full of Clouds, 1936
“The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches.”— Edith Wharton
:: Herland, 1915 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ::
Edwige Feuillère & Erich von Stroheim
Marthe Richard au service de la France, Raymond Bernard (1937).
Nina Berberova, a Russian Empire-born writer and poet, 1924
Marlene Dietrich in Dishonored (1931) dir. Josef von Sternberg
Josephine Baker photographed while attending a reception in New York City. 1928
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