Tag: Paris

August 26, 2017 /

“To show the knee is ordinaire…vulgaire…!” Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975)

April 15, 2017 /

Once upon an Easter in London and Paris…

  This is what Spring looks like at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. I love-love-love this time of year here, but… When I was little girl my father had business in London for a time, so I lived there with my parents and went to a girl’s school…

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July 4, 2016 /

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide…

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November 19, 2015 /

“We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own.” Jean-Paul Sartre

November 16, 2015 /

“When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.” Voltaire

November 14, 2015 /

“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus

Beguiling is going dark for a few days in honor of Paris, and the people of France.
February 12, 2015 /

Funny Face – Richard Avedon – Audrey Hepburn – Fred Astaire

February 12, 2015 /

Funny Face – The Balloon Scene – Getting Camera Ready

February 12, 2015 /

Funny Face – Avedon and Astaire – photo by David Seymour

January 12, 2015 /

Sunday in Paris… Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité… Place de la Nation, Photograph by Stephane Mahe, Reuters