Ballerina, you must have seen her...

Axl Rose meets Louise Brooks for DEIVIE Autumn/Winter 2012!!! 

#teenagedream

#rocketqueAn 

I DO?

Beautiful Brenna McGuire is at it again, completely cornering the bridal market with her second BRIDES Magazine cover this year! We were so lucky to book her for our womenswear editorial last year --- and in the future when DEIVIE is ready to debut a wedding collection we know who to call! Congrats Brenna --- absolutely lovely!

Feathers & Fringe

some new headdresses! Leigh needed a replacement (for the LeighBGB!) and I did, as well (as I gave the Xtini Mannini away!)

Princess LeighLa

Maniac Mannino

view the others here!
http://missmannino.blogspot.com/2011/05/riff-raff-feather-warriors.html

view from my morning

Approaching the Days of Dolls

presently I am wholly inspired by the idea of tragic glamour -- stemming from the line in Donnie Darko (citing Graham Greene's The Destructors) that claims, "destruction is a form of creation." 

alike how something beautiful and perfect captitvates us ---  how perfect it is; how put together; how secure -- we are equally drawn to that something beautiful falling apart, changing into something unfamiliar; creating something perhaps even more enlivening in its demise.

it's as if its start -- that amazing appeal --- left only as clandestine flickers fighting through a glazed haze -- is almost immortal; as if that force is so powerful that it is too difficult, too exerting, for us to forget. 

there are layers and layers deep, but what was originally there can't quite be fully hidden... and it's that glimpse of the past, that flash of what once was, regret permeating through the flashes, that is tragic.      

"You have to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls,

It's a brutal climb to reach that peak,You stand there, waiting for the rush of exhilaration but it doesn't come,You're alone. And the feeling of loneliness is overpowering..." -- Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Word of the Day

dernier cri French [dɛrnje kri]

n

le [lə]

(Clothing & Fashion) the latest fashion; the last word

[literally: last cry]

as soon as things slow down I vow to actually completely learn french!!! 

Beautiful Disaster

found a time ago on the street -- 

 the ideal of love and trash, perfection and self-destruction -- existing at once... almost creating beauty in their fusion... almost more beautiful together than  apart.....but only through the shock of their cohabitation...only by the shock that they hadn't yet destroyed each other...