All things beautiful

quinta-feira, 10 de junho de 2021

50's fashion - Always dress like you are going to see your worst enemy.

My visit to Kensington Palace today to view Princess Diana's Wedding Dress.

quarta-feira, 9 de junho de 2021

AUDREY HEPBURN A FASHION ICON

Givenchy made the dress for Ms. Hepburn for the movie Sabrina

Audrey Hepburn in a dress by Fernanda Gattinoni for the movie “War and Peace”.

Dresses designed for Audrey Hepburn for War and Peace

Vintage clothing

1958 Dior YSL design

1954 Cocktail Dress Christian Dior

1958 Jacques Fath

1959 Cristobal Balenciaga

terça-feira, 8 de junho de 2021

Aging is a Privilege denied to many.

“I'm not opposed to aging. I am too busy to survive and get my ducks in a row so that I can enjoy my retirement or should I rather say, Live my Life the way I want to. I do not look at aging as the enemy. It happens whether I like it or not and no one is set apart from growing old; it comes to us all. Youth passes from everyone, so why deny it. I am proud of my age. I'm proud that I've survived this planet for as long as I have, and should I end up withered, wrinkled and with a lifetime of great wisdom, I'll trade the few years of youth for the sophistication of a great mind...for however long it lasts.”

Here's a dozen of my favorite things never to apologize for:

1) Never apologize for acting on your instincts.
2) Never apologize for being passionate.
3) Never apologize for being smart.
4) Never apologize for demanding respect.
5) Never apologize for saying no.
6) Never apologize for not embracing someone else's agenda.
7) Never apologize for disagreeing.
8) Never apologize for your faith.
9) Never apologize for your own sense of creativity.
10) Never apologize for ordering dessert.
11) Never apologize for being funny.
12) Never apologize for living your truth.

Every one of us casts a shadow.

There hangs about us, a sort of a strange, indefinable something, which we call personal influence--that has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it--and then lay aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our lives . . . as light from a lamp, as heat from flame, as perfume from a flower.

The ministry of personal influence is something very wonderful. Without being conscious of it, we are always impressing others by this strange power that exudes from us. Others watch us--and their thinking and actions are modified by our influence."

"Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity." Ephesians 5:15-16

~J. R. Miller, "The Shadows We Cast"