Vogue Italia January 2020 Covers By Vanessa Beecroft, Milo Manara featuring Olivia Vinten, Cassi Namoda featuring Ambar Cristal Zarzuela, Yoshitaka Amano featuring Lindsey Wixson, Delphine Desane featuring Assa Badarji and Paolo Ventura featuring Felice Nova Noordhoff
mistress of melancholia
Well, heart, out of all this carnage, could you do better?
my current mental state? megan fox slathering foundation all over her face while staring into the mirror half-dead in jennifers body (2009)
“What was my mad heart dreaming of? –”— Sappho, tr. by Aaron Poochigian
“She is sunburnt, sea kissed.”— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. June 1937 featured in “The Diary of Virginia Woolf,”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’, from Sibylline Leaves (1817)
Jan van Scorel, Mary Magdalene (details), c.1530
Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet
French, 1791-1834
Female nude, 1831 (detail)
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939
ab. 1535 Jan van Scorel - Madonna of the Daffodils with the Christ Child and Donors
(Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum)
“The conflict between being different and wanting to be close to others. I felt different but I longed for friendship and love.”— Anaïs Nin, from In Favor of the Sensitive Man: Essays; “On Truth and Reality,” (via violentwavesofemotion)