Corn Dance in Santa Clara, 1950

Two dancers leave the northern kiva to enter the plaza of Santa Clara, one of the tewa pueblos.

They participate in the Corn Dance; the woman wears the typical tablet headdress and a wool cloak with an interwoven wool and cotton belt and high moccasins.

Her arms are adorned with turquoise and silver bracelets and she wears a turquoise and coral necklace around her neck.

They both hold fir springs.

The man has painted his body with white and black and wears a seashell and coral necklace, a cotton dance skirt with woolen embroidery, a beautiful cotton belt and a leather belt with bells.

The anklets are made with skunk fur and are sewn to white moccasins; he has a fox tail hanging behind him.

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EVENING DRESS BY MADELEINE VIONNET

WINTER 1937 – MODEL 4376

ATELIER PETIT

 Violet Velvet filled with rose petal patterns, closure with rhinestone clips.

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These pictures now come from an increasing variety of sources.

Most are still produced in-house and hand-outs continue to be planted from studio and network publicity departments.

Some come from public relations companies and some from the stars themselves.

And, as the vistas expand, some from foreign agencies who form partnerships with domestic agencies and exchange material.

The two main forces behind Globe Photos for sixty years have been the magazine editors that assigned and bought the pictures and the Hollywood press agents Globe had to work through to shoot those pictures.

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LONDON SMOKE, BABY PINK

 Blue, red, white, green, yellow, black…

And then?

How many colors?

Don’t ask the rainbow: it’s a magician.

It shows us only that which we want to see.

Children, who search for the treasure at the feet of its rays, know well: the colors disappear as soon as you try to catch them, they’re just an illusion.

Actually, a color is and ensemble of symbols and conventions.

Behind the six primary colors are the complimentary ones, half tones (pink, brown, violet, orange and the strange gray) and an infinite procession of shades which never stops inventing.

The lesson we can pull from here is entertaining: a color only exists because we look at it.

Basically, it’s a pure invention of mankind.

Meditate, people.

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When you want to pull the plug of the confusion of a Western world focused on greediness, fear of empty spaces, the tachycardiac drive for pleasure, Micus’ music will bring you back to yourself, with a surety and especially a slow abandon to listening for the pauses, the silences which are interspersed with a pure, clear sound.

 His Moon, Venus and Mars are in the sign of Pisces and it is here that Capricorn forsakes the materialistic, hard Earth, to ask questions which have no answers.

Listen to Koan (1981), Ocean (1986), Life (2004) the magical Bold As Light (2010) to slip into a gentle distance which will lead you closer to yourselves.

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The crises has taught of choosing and when one learns to choose, often his taste is refined, he experiments new roads, feels the exhilaration of a new originality that he then cannot renounce.

Piombo tells:

“Large American clients always need a refined product, but not too refined.

A brand that distinguishes itself from the others, without, however losing the ease with which it can be worn, the market needs our product.”

Niche sales are now feeling a quality increase.

Piombo has always gathered ideas and colors from around the world, which he then unites even in irregular pairings.

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In the voluptuousness of her refined furniture

Before dinner, she plays Claude Debussy.

CHARLES MARTIN 1913

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POPE PASCHAL II AND HENRY II – MANUSCRIPT 373 LATE XI CENTURY – CAMBRIDGE

The pontifical apparel corresponds to the descriptions found in documents of the time.

Take special note of the snow-white rounded Phrygian, the wide casual and the sacred pallium embellished with crosses which drapes over the shoulders, the silken Dalmatian with wide sleeves and the linen tunic.

Henry II is also depicted realistically wearing a mantel embellished with gold around the hem and open on the front, a wide-sleeved surcoat and a tunic with narrow sleeves, closed footwear, on his head a closed crown.

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Gossip Girl’s dark lady hasn’t changed: a perfect example of unwashed charm.

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If you want to have a softer effect, we suggest a knitted tie: wool for winter and silk for summer.

With the latter fabric the knot tends to slip so it must be secured with care.

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