The Journal
of Coquette
“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world.
I am adjusted to myself.”
— Anaïs Nin
“She was the most beautiful thing in the room and she was disappearing. Everyone watched. Nobody stopped it.”
Edie Sedgwick — The Girl Who Burned
“Yes, it hurts when buds burst. Otherwise why would spring hesitate?”
Karin Boye — The Tree in Storm
“She created the world I wanted to live in. Then she named it after my name.”
Leith Clark — The One Who Named Her Magazine Violet
Quotes & WordsQuotes & Words
Henry Miller — Forget Yourself
The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people.
MusesMuses
Tasha Tudor — A Life in the Garden
She lived in the 1830s by choice. Her garden was her cathedral, her illustrations were her prayers.
Quotes & WordsQuotes & Words
Anaïs Nin — On Living Poetically
I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world.
Fashion HistoryFashion History
The Victorian Language of Flowers
In an era when women could not speak freely, they learned to speak in petals.
Aesthetic PhilosophyAesthetic Philosophy
On Beauty as Resistance
In a world that profits from your self-doubt, choosing beauty is an act of rebellion.
Art & ArtistsArt & Artists
Tim Walker — The Fairy Tale Photographer
He photographs the world the way I have always wanted to see it — as if everything is possible and nothing is ordinary.
MusesMuses
Marchesa Casati — A Living Work of Art
She wanted to be a living work of art. She burned through a fortune doing it, and she succeeded.