Above: A look from Yves Saint Laurent's Spring 1978 collection,
as modeled by Carolyn Murphy at the YSL Retrospective in Spring 2002.

~peek-a-boo*~
French model Morgane Dubled at Pollini, Fall 2007, and Latvian model Inguna Butane at Versace, Fall 2005.

What's the correlation between this and the following picture? Who knows...?

A hot-pink bus in Constanta, Romania, a city located on southeastern coast, right along the Black Sea. In the past few years, the entire public transport system has been replaced by buses in these kinds of loud-ass colors. I wonder what the horn sounds like, hmm? (lol!!!)

Tao Comme des Garçons, Fall 2007, and Paul Smith Women, Fall 2007.
That's a nice juxtaposition, if I do say so myself...

A brunette Barbie, flanked by Yves Saint Laurent ballet-inspired heels. Ooh!

The Glitziest-lookin' Rebel You've Ever Seen...
Linda Evangelista in Versace, 1993.

Russian model Valentina Zelyaeva in Versace, Fall 2005. Just truly amazing. One the absolute best collections.

That Bow is Un. Bow. Leavabow.
Canadian model Jessica Stam in Valentino Ready-to-Wear, Spring 2006.

American model Amber Valletta in Versace, Spring 2003 - Yeah yeah YEAH!!!!

Oh REALLY? (A page from the Guess? 1992 promotional photo book.)

Very nice...

Uh-huh.......

Obviously a Barbie 2007 wall calendar... Now where would be a good place to hang this?

Linda once again, from an Yves Saint Laurent ad, c. 1992 -- I think we have a match! SSSO Awesome. :-D

Loved the silhouette so much I figured it'd give it to ya like this--
droppin' a bit of red into this ocean of pink pulchritude... And might I add that Yves Saint-Laurent himself
is said to have remarked that, "The silhouette counts more than anything. It should never be overloaded."

But AH! Read what it says -- now THAT, all you darling ladies, is the operative question!
(From Vogue magazine, October 1, 1960)

Christian Dior Haute Couture, Fall 2005, oh my god... yeah, you wanna talk spotlight? She won THAT contest...

In his book The Art of Love, the Roman poet Ovid goes:
"Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower." (III,79)
In Latin, this is "Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem." So....
Carpite florem - Seize the Daisy ! :-D

Oh, and to all y'all game-playin' girls? Gather rosebuds while ye may
(IF you know what I mean, AND I think ya do...) :-s
Anyway, that hollyhock and/or hyacinth-hued sundress is from DKNY Spring 2007.

American supermodel Christy Turlington, on an early '90s issue of Elle. Once again, the shade of red and the shade of pink paired up look so damn gooood!!!! (As if you couldn't tell from the taste I've been exhibiting thus far, blahhhhh)

Brenda Starr "Pink Obsession" Doll, designer by Tyler Dolls of Sydney, Australia. Ruffled chiffon evening dress in fuchsia with matching beaded belt--amazing detail, astonishing craftsmanship.
(No, this is not an eBay listing, LOL-- I am really just THAT impressed! And check my various backgrounds!)

John Galliano (his signature line), Fall 2003. I cannot even BEGIN to tell you how awesome this is!!!!!... YES, I am THAT crazy. It's like, if choosing between a woman who's had a lot of cosmetic "work" done, or one who is super-"cosmeticized" in the original sense, I love--LOVE--a woman who turns herself into a work of art. Can't get enough!! The possibilities are limitless! Who is she! Oh what a mystery! What an impossibility! What an enigma! Ahhhh yeeeah, THIS is what I live for... YYYYYEAH!!!!! (Disclaimer: No crackpipe was involved in the making of this caption.)

One of my favorite and one of the most brilliantly creative singers, Peter Gabriel, said in an interview that when he goes to a concert, he doesn't just want to see someone do the humble-bumble and be self-effacing and simplistic, but rather he (like me, and so many others, I think) wants to see something larger than life, over-the-top--an exaggeration of real life, of real emotions, and of ordinary appearances. You know what I say? I say hell yeah!!!!!
If you wanna make people dream, IT HAS TO BE EXTREME!

Okay, maybe IIII had some "work" done myself though, all right? ... No, not really, but seeing this highly highly accurate represention of myself in polystyrene form, I have to laugh, thinkin' of this one time that I saw Jamie Foxx on that show Loveline on MTV, and this dude called in and was like, saying he spends hours and hours staring at himself in the mirror and had actually become attracted to his own mirror image, and Jamie Foxx made a disbelieving gesture and was like "Are you THAT fly?" Hahaaa, yeh, that was hysterical.
(No, that was not me calling in.)

Three Jeff Cooper platinum diamond rings, and then some suave-lookin' dude who's probably so in love with HIS mirror-image that, at midnight on New Year's Eve he kisses his own damn reflection.
(But you didn't hear that from ME, all right...)

Heart-shaped ring from Dior Joaillerie, then a Marilyn Monroe doll, of course, and then two chicks on the catwalk at the end of a runway show by the always-irreverent UK designer Zandra Rhodes. Woo! Ha-HA!

Ah yeah...and closing it out is Carolyn Murphy yet again, from the Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective... Superb.

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