Hot off the Linen Press II

More fabulous dishcloth designs from the inextinguishable (I have exhausted all other
adjectives) talents of Mia Widlake (aka No. 19)...

Through the Looking Glass (XVI)

The sixteenth in the Through the Looking Glass series of photographs...

Image via Old Chum

Françoise Hardy

Talk about six degrees of separation. In this case... one, actually. A friend - who shall remain nameless - took Mademoiselle Hardy out on two dates in the 60's. He, a part of swinging London, (not dissimilar to the fashion set as depicted in Antonioni's Blowup) and she, a shy, unassuming, but soon-to-be superstar. 

I love her look - hair straight with bangs, no nonsense or superfluous accoutrements, perfect bones and effortless French girl style. And how darn cool is that Honda...

Images via Tory Burch, Elements of Style, Ella Universe, Bleubird Vintage, Francois Hardy

Through the Looking Glass (Number XV)

The fifteenth in the Through the Looking Glass series of photographs...

From here

Through the Looking Glass (Number XIV)

The fourteenth in the Through the Looking Glass series of photographs...

(One can almost smell the freshly made bread! The bakery on 259 Bleecker Street (New York City) was photographed in the mid 1930's by Berenice Abbott. The bread was obviously piping hot as one can see from the condensation on the window. Certainly worth laying your hands on the amazing book Changing New York. See more here. Via A Continuous Lean).

Equestrian Quarters

I could easily trade with that horse...

Image via Shorpy

Through the Lens of LIFE

Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.  - Albert Camus

The Head of the Statue of Liberty on display at the World Fair in Paris, 1878

Liberty's Crown, 1950

Hanging out of the windows of the crown, 1952 (Margaret Bourke-White)

Pennsylvania Station, 1943

Harlem, 103rd Street

Thrill-seekers ride the 300-foot parachute jump at Coney Island

Famous Times Square Camel Ad (that belched smoke)

Queen of the Sea

Grand Central Terminal

Opening Day of the Empire State Building (Samuel H. Gottscho, 1931)

From the Brooklyn Bridge (Paul Himmel, 1950) 

Block by block grid system (Margaret Bourke-White, 1939)

A film still from Taxi Driver - Bob De Niro and Martin Scorsese, 1976

All images from LIFE

Charlotte Rampling

Never mind Helen of Troy.... here is a face and gaze that could launch a thousand anythings. Somewhat aristocratic, beguiling yet inaccessible, and of course... those eyes. Charlotte Rampling remains an absolute enigma.

Charlotte Rampling and Sam Waterston in Three

With Richard Burton

With Woody Allen

From The Night Porter

Images from here, here, here and here

Through the Looking Glass (VI)

The sixth in the Through the Looking Glass series of photographs.

Via Pinterest (My What Nice Presentation You Have) 
Harper's Bazaar 1963