Antique lace - Throughout the centuries, lace has signified sheer luxury. From collars and handkerchiefs to curtains and pillowslips. The fancy and frilly designs of its ornamental openwork offer intricate patterns, but its romance lies in what cannot be seen.

 

Basic to beautiful decorated cakes

Cupcakes bouquet by Karinas Confectioneries, Orlando

                 

The wedding cake room at Brympton House, cakes made by the Blushing Cook

Embroidery Cake by Winnie at Oh Cakes,

World’s oldest supermodel is 90

 

 Carmen Dell’Orefice is an American model and actress, born in New York, NY. She is known within the fashion industry for being the world’s oldest working model as of the Spring/Summer 2012 season. She covered Vogue at the mere age of 15, and has been modelling ever since.

We're all works of art in progress.

Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.

I'm totally formed by my mother's interest in fashion. As a Hungarian immigrant, she couldn't afford clothes. She made all her clothes from patterns. It was not dépassé to make your own clothes, it was a respected skill and it was financially expedient. I learned that doing it yourself, having self-discipline and working went hand in hand. To work passionately at something is the key. I'm fortunate and blessed to have had, for the most part in my life, the privilege to work at something I'm passionate about.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!

Fashion goes in cycles but nothing has changed. When it's ridiculous it's more ridiculous than ever, and when it's wonderful it becomes more wonderful than ever because now more people think: "I dress the body I have, not I have to change the body to wear the fashion." That's what I admire about the growth of the fashion industry. I also think it's wonderful that there is the opportunity to use different textures and fabrics on different colour skins. I am inspired by that.

I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.

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Style - “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” – Rachel Zoe

Give a woman pain and she’ll turn it into power. Give that woman chaos and she’ll create peace. - R. H. SIN

 

           

                         There’s fire in her… If loved correctly, she will warm your entire home. 

                                        If abused, she will burn it down. 

                                                     ANONYMOUS

                     

                      They tried to burn her not knowing she was a flame.

R. H. SIN

                   

                   And you, you scare people because you are whole all by yourself.

LAUREN ALEX HOOPER

                  

If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.

ANONYMOUS

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