#Grape-Nuts

[questionableadvice]

~ Grape-Nuts advertisement, 1910

There's no way that deep, intense stare across the breakfast table is because of Grape-Nuts and its brain-food strength. Nope, not buying it

[goshyesvintageads]

General Foods Corp, 1955

[proustianrevelry]

[aworldofpattern]

Zendaya at the Met Gala 2024, wearing custom Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano, and hat by Stephen Jones.

The fruit, flowers, insects and birds on the gown fit the dress code of the night, 'The Garden of Time', inspired by J.G. Ballard's 1962 short story (explained here by the BBC).

The gown also references John Galliano’s Spring 1999 couture collection for Dior, in particular the gown below, decorated with grapes.

Maison Margiela said:

'A sage lamé bias-cut ‘siren dress’ overlaid with iridescent electric blue organza with ‘retrograding’ in undulating bands of hand-painted metallic crin, swathed in an aluminium material and iridescent organza drape and bow, with a corsage hand-embroidered in a bacchanal of hand-painted impasto in the grammar of the electric blues and emerald greens of scarab amulets, with formations of birds, flowers, vines, grapes and nuts, worn over a boudoir-coloured duchess satin corset. A silver metal-wire ‘reverse swatching’ hat and a black hand-painted voile crafted in the memory of plume and enveloped in matching coloured stockings by Stephen Jones for Maison Margiela, and Eau de Nil velour and faux lizard Tabi interlaced ankle-strap pumps by Christian Louboutin for Maison Margiela.

Created for Zendaya by John Galliano for Maison Margiela, the haute couture silhouette was inspired by the 1930s mythological works of the photographer Madame Yevonde and imbued with the memory of the orgiastic sceneries of the bacchanals of Ancient Greece. In a dance between painterly cutting and draping techniques – unique to each layer of the construction – and the superposition of fabric textures such as tin foil with transparent iridescent organza overlay, the composition conjures the staccato brushstrokes of Giovanni Boldini. The bias-cut ‘siren dress’ is a key expression in the creative practice of John Galliano, which first appeared at Maison Margiela in the Spring-Summer 2020 Artisanal Collection. Infused with a certain ‘snobisme’, the look is given the epithet of ‘86 and Lexington’, a nod to the subway station near The Met.

The dress was crafted with ‘retrograding’, a technique through which variations of thread-work, appliqué or encrustation degrade from the bottom to the top of a garment like the linear base drawing of a painting that hasn’t yet been finished. The ‘reverse swatching’ technique employed in the hat exchanges the fabrics traditionally used for certain parts of dressmaking with materials of a contrasting value.' X

[catfindr]

[dandyads]

Grape Nuts, 1917

Theme Week: Mothers 🌹

[bluegarners]

EDIT: GUYS. DONT CHOOSE THE "SENSIBLE" OPTION. CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT FANON DICK GRAYSON WOULD LIKE BEST. THE FANON DICK GRAYSON THAT LOADS UP ON BAD SUGAR CEREAL. I DID NOT INCLUDE "HEALTHY" OPTIONS FOR A REASON

[frogshunnedshadows]

Circa 1972 American breakfast cereals in a supermarket, from an educational short film.

[vegan-nom-noms]

Dolma (Stuffed Grape Leaves)

[dress-this-way]

~ Healthy Snacking ~

[goshyesvintageads]

General Foods Corp, 1950

[andisupreme]

man was meant.. to sit down with a few kinds of crackers... a few differed aged sausages... at least four different cheeses... and a bit of fruit... and he was meant to mix and match little towers of flavor... as enrichment......

[bluesky-out-of-context]

[kindalikerackham]

I have no proof, but I think my anxiety this week can be traced back to my horde of birds dissipating as the snow melted

[tanicus-caesareth]

do we have any proof that the Titan isn't still possessing Luz at least a little bit 🤔 how could one ever fully get a god out of their mind/body/soul? he recreated her body from nothing; even if they're ordinary human cells, they were touched by the divine. sure, anyone else could say the same, but it's different when you're conscious and can comprehend it happening. idk much 2 think about, the mysteries of owl house...

[dreadfutures]

you know what I'm so glad fucking disappeared from the lexicon of everyone around me

rizz