a glimpse of walking on ho chi minh bookstreet

Day ensemble, 1860s. Kyoto Costume Institute

Summer dress, 1830. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

August’s full moon.

Yachting ensemble, 1880s. FIDM Museum.

Yohji Yamamoto Spring (1997)

Evening dress by Rouff, 1888. Kyoto Costume Institute.

Ira Aldridge, Possibly in the Role of Othello, by Irish painter William Mulready (1840-63). Walters Art Museum.

audrey hepburn in a sorelle fontana cocktail dress while filming 'roman holiday', 1953

What’s striking about such men is that more often than not they already knew exactly the kind of person she is before marrying her. She didn’t hide her lifestyle,habits or personality. Yet instead of choosing someone whose values,skills and rhythms match their supposed "type",

Charlotte Hope's creations for Bazaar Vietnam

His view is very common and it's why the silly myth of "princess treatment" is a delusion. Under patriarchy, men are taught to see women's labor as their purpose in the marriage. It's an institution designed to be extractive of women's bodies and labors. If a woman has leisure --

devon aoki as betty boop for interview magazine photographed by ellen von unwerth (2001)

You can go your entire life not engaging in transactional sex, then you get married, and then you're having sex so he won't look outside, having sex for upkeep money, having sex to apologise, having sex for duty, having sex when you don't want to, having sex so he won't beat you.

Riding habit, 1886-89. McCord Museum.

“You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” President John F. Kennedy

reading shakespeare for the first time is crazy because you go “oh that’s where that comes from” every other page

Graphic design by ✨Cipe Pineles✨ for Vogue, 1939.🪡

seeing the reader's note in combination with the ✨hard hitting social commentary ✨ just drives it home how fake & perfectly placed everything is to bait you now