Menka (‘Celestial nymph’)

Image from Moksha - Fazal Sheikh, Online Edition

Neela Dey (‘Sapphire’)

I was lucky in my marriage. My husband and his mother always treated me with kindness.  […] But after my husband died, my elder son informed me that I could live anywhere I wanted - in fact he was telling me to leave the house. 

In Vrindavan we are so determined in our devotion that everything else in the world is dead to us. We ourselves are dead and living with Krishna.

Text and Image from Moksha - Fazal Sheikh, Online Edition.

Hussein Chalayan, spring 2011 ready to wear

Christine de Grancy - Saharawi Women, Frente Polisario, 1983via harpy, sealmaiden

Christine de Grancy - Saharawi Women, Frente Polisario, 1983
via harpy, sealmaiden

“botanical, basing her shapes on the scroll-like forms of orchids..”

Micro-paneled lace dress
Anne Valérie Hash
, Fall 2008 Couture

via harpy

boysoprano:

Ajax and Cassandra, Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1886