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sábado, 28 de agosto de 2021

Detailed embroidered Haute Couture

Detail of beading on blue dress, by Yves Saint Laurent,

1958–1959.

House of Dior

Balenciaga couture 'Spanish' Jacket c.1940's

Balmain 1950’s

Designed by Schiaparelli for her fall 1939

Schiaparelli's lavish embroidery

Embroidered silk velvet jacket and skirt, designed by Schiaparelli,

Paris, autumn-winter 1937-38.

1939 Bolero

sexta-feira, 27 de agosto de 2021

Princess Diana, Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth fascinating outfits on display

Intricate gowns by Sir Norman Hartnell

Monarch wearing an elegant pale-green Hartnell gown of silk chiffon and

lace embroidered with sequins, pearls, beads and diamante

Evening dress, by Sir Norman Hartnell, 1961. Lace and lamé

embroidered with pearls, sequins, diamanté and metal thread

Sir Norman Hartnell, 1963. Silk tulle, silk, bugle beads, crystals.

Worn by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II to a State Banquet at the Belgian

Embassy in London in 1963.

This green silk dress with jewelled embroidery was worn during a

state visit to Ethiopia in February 1965.

Blue-grey silk-organza evening gown by Hardy Amies worn by the

Queen to a dinner at Government House, Nova Scotia in 1959

A 1945 Normal Hartnell evening dress used in a sitting for photographer

Cecil Beaton at Buckingham Palace is included in the display

Norman Hartnell evening dress worn by the Queen, right, for a performance

of the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House in August 1971

This beige evening gown, designed by Norman Hartnell and worn

by the Queen for the opening of the New Zealand parliament

during a Commonwealth visit in 1963 is on view

This pink sequined ivory crepe gown, by Catherine Walker worn by

Diana, Princess of Wales at a banquet given by President Collor at the

Itamaraty Palace whilst on a State visit to Brazil, 1991 is on show

Princess Diana evening dress, by Murray Arbeid. Worn at Claridges Hotel,

London, for a dinner given for the President of Greece in 1986

Princess Diana wore the above dress designed by Zandra Rhodes for

a royal visit to Japan in 1986

Princess Margaret's halter-neck dress, 1951

A Carl Toms kaftan worn by Princess Margaret fashioned from

luxurious Indian sari silk

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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"