Welcome to my new blog! I was in need of another form of expression for my changed self, so I started my Fleur de poubelle as a mean to focus on the things most important to me. I would like to sum them up and see them as one indivisible concept. Hope you'll like it.

La belle rue (une tenue grise et noire)

Les Piqûres D'araignée

Camille Rowe-Pourcheresse for Jalouse France. Photographs by Paul Schmidt.
P.S. Can we stop exploiting the image of Brigitte Bardot each time we want to make sexy photos?
P.P.S. No, we can't. Nothing is sexier than a doe-eyed long-haired girl.

Fashion 'en pointe'

I Forgot To Take My Knife

And now there comes the time for something completely different. It's change, change, change. The spring brings the air of independence and intellectuality; an acute feeling of superiority over your own poor self. I think, the maxi skirt epitomizes it all. It carries a message. It's not only due to the 70's come-back that I felt an urge to buy and wear a maxi skirt. I wanted to own it, to let it grow on me. I'm going to toughen it up with a pair of loafers, on the one hand, and, to make the equation work, wear it with an utterly feminine nude top.
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Veruschka

I first came across the name of Veruschka two years ago, after watching Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-up" (1966). Famous enough to play herself by that time, she has always been an amazing model AND an extraordinarily talented artist. Though she departed from the fashion industry in 1975, she has worked with the greatest photographers of the period. In a German documentary about her she told a very inspiring story of herself gradually turning into Veruschka. She highlighted and exaggerated her decadent beauty and melancholic look. She wore only black; she created a special walk, as if she was filmed in slow motion. Finally, she came up with that peculiar pseudo-Russian name of hers (with the stress falling on the second syllable). She never hesitated to experiment with her looks, and this made her popular with photographers. Later on, she focused on body-art. She painted her skin so that it could imitate ground, trees, animal skin, walls or windows, and her body looked almost transparent on the photos.
Stones were her favourite art objects. In Paris, she said, she always carried small smooth stones with her in the pocket wherever she went.

Inspiration: brunettes

tfs
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