valentina zeliaeva photographed by lincoln pilcher for vogue australia, january 2012.
12th of December 2011
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26th of August 2011
jean patou photographed by phillipe potter in “nouveaux imprimés” for l’officiel #431, spring 1958.
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29th of June 2011
19th of June 2011
Woman: Are you going upstairs? Tell my fianc I’m looking for him. I have lost my fianc, the poor baby.
Elaine: Maybe the dingo ate your baby.
Woman: What?
Elaine: The dingo ate your baby!(via The Stranded)
(via dailyseinfeld)
16th of May 2011
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The determining factor in my relationship with God is not my past or my present but Christ’s past and His present. ”
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@Realitysf (via kjaere)
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10th of April 2011
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady. ”
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Edith Head (via dukeeveryday)
25th of March 2011
24th of March 2011
It is to rainy to do anything outside and to cold to do anything inside, so I guess my only option is to wrap myself in a blanket, lay on the couch and read a book while drinking my weight in green tea. Sounds ok to me:)
15th of March 2011
arbitrarily | docroes | tapesongs | stepliana:
Sarah Lane calls it a more polite word: a façade. I asked her if she was expecting to be thanked when she heard Portman reel off 10 or 20 other names during her acceptance speech. Lane said no, because a Fox Searchlight producer had already called to ask her to stop giving interviews until after the Oscars. “They were trying to create this façade that she had become a ballerina in a year and a half,” she said. “So I knew they didn’t want to publicize anything about me.”
As she said in Dance Magazine’s December interview, she felt good about her work—though it was exhausting and frustrating—on the set. “It was a great experience to see the whole process of making a movie,” she told me. But she didn’t realize until just before the Oscars just how exploited she was. All the pirouettes, the full-body shots, and just-the-legs shots were her. (She also said that fellow ABT soloist Maria Riccetto doubled for Mila Kunis in one long shot.) The publicity campaign from the studio, however, spread the word that Portman did 90 percent of her own dancing.
Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine
The thing is that people believe this as if one year of dancing can even equate to this woman’s whole entire life and her hard work. Lol it’s pathetic, really.
I outraged at work the other day about Natalie. Among all the stupid/entitled things she has a habit of saying, this is one of the things that really bothers me.
Someone tried to call me out on my blog when I complained they were making a ballet movie and not casting ballerinas…Just one of the reasons why The Red Shoes will always reign superior to Black Swan.
To clarify, I wasn’t complaining about the talent or quality of the dancing (it was obvious to me they would/did do a double), my issue was why not cast the dancer as the lead. Why did they need a big name? They could have cast a dancer who could also act. That’s what they did in The Red Shoes; no body doubles—who you see dancing is the person dancing that role. And she could act (Moira Shearer to be exact).
