#Isabelle Willems

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Hôtel des Acacias (Chantal Akerman & Michèle Blondeel, 1982)    

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dresses in art

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10 Favorite Horror Performances (in no particular order)

A last minute Halloween tag I made up weeks ago, but only posted now

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And anyone else mostly because tumblr won't let me tag certain people

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Kiki Willems at Isabel Marant SS21

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Isabel Marant Fall 2022

Model: Kiki Willems

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Kiki Willems at Isabel Marant, Spring 2023

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Isabel Marant  // Spring 2024 #PFW - Paris Fashion Week

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Kiki Willems at Isabel Marant f/w 2023-2024

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Through the Years → Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (1,334/∞)

13 June 2023 | King Felipe VI poses with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands on his arrival at a luncheon at the Royal Botanical Gardens, in Madrid, Spain. The luncheon is being held for the 375th anniversary of the establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the Netherlands and Spain and the Contribution of Hydrogen Valleys to the Decarbonization of Europe. The lunch is one of the events in which King Willem-Alexander will participate to learn about several hydrogen projects in Spain. The focus of the visit is hydrogen and its future use in energy production. The Dutch monarch's visit to Spain includes trips to Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia. (Photo By Isabel Infantes/Europa Press via Getty Images)

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Just a quick announcement to say that according to my personal sim calendar, it is officially the year 1910 in the Carter Decades Challenge! And luckily it perfectly coincides with Harry becoming a young adult very soon! So we are officially switching over to Gen 2 with Harry as the heir! Don’t worry, we will still see plenty of the rest of the Carter Family and I’ll be keeping up with them every so often, but our main story is going to follow Harry off to university and we’ll see what happens from there!

(Keep reading for an update on the extended family - you can find pictures on the family tree link here!)

And now a quick look at the other extended family for the Carters. Here’s the state of our extended family in the year 1910!

Isabel Carter continues to raise her two younger children, the twins Anna and Norman. They both turn 16 this year and are in secondary school. Anna is a music lover like her mom and wants to pursue her education in the violin. She would love to play with a symphony one day. She is also loyal and would never do something to hurt someone she loves, she is torn between her wish to be a good wife one day and her desire to play the violin across the world. Norman is squeamish but romantic and prefers to stay indoors, he’ll probably grow up to be a businessman with a nice wife and 2 kids and never do anything extraordinary with his life. Meanwhile, the oldest, Eva, is already 19 years old, she’s ambitious and she is ready to move out but has not found a suitable husband yet, she has high standards. She is mean and a snob, so only the best of the best can provide for her. In the meantime she has reluctantly taken a job as a babysitter for some of her mother’s younger friends, she does not like it and has already resolved not to have children in her marriage if she can help it. Yet another reason that finding a husband has been going slowly.

Emily and Thomas still live just down the road from the Carters and visit often, their children are all friends. The oldest, Emmaline, is 26 and married to a man named Patrick Gallagher. Patrick is adventurous and spontaneous, as well as very charming and talkative. He took advantage of the government’s Homestead Act and bought land in the west to start his own farm and a new life for his new family. Emmaline moved with him to the very far away town of Chestnut Ridge. Although she stays in contact with her parents and siblings through letters and telegrams, they don’t hear from her nearly as often as they would like, and it’s nearly impossible to visit for how far away it is. Things are going well for them though, and they recently had a baby! Margaret Gallagher was born on October 31st, 1909.

Next is Willem, who is 24 and recently married. He married a young woman named Lila and moved to the coast, but not the same coast his aunt Isabel lived on, further south. It’s just far enough away from both his family and Lila’s that they feel they can be independent, while close enough that they can still visit for the big holidays. They also just recently had a daughter, a year older than Emmaline’s daughter. Her name is Katherine Wilson and she was born on May 17th, 1908.

Lucy, who was just an infant when this legacy began, is 22 and engaged to a man named Benjamin Turner, they’re perfect for each other. While Lucy is paranoid and creative, he is loyal but doesn’t want children, which suits Lucy just fine. Soon they’ll be married and move to Willow Creek, where they plan to live out their days indoors, just the two of them, Lucy painting and Benjamin writing, perfectly compatible lifestyles.

Meanwhile, back with the full Wilson family, Joan is just a few months older than Harry and will turn 18 this year. She is neat and romantic, she hopes to find the love of her life quickly so that she can spend all of her time with him and have many beautiful babies. For now, though, she’ll have to finish secondary school, which has not been easy on her with all of her daydreaming. The youngest Wilson child is Jacob, who is only three years old now and was clearly an unexpected pregnancy. He is a very sensitive infant.

The Davis family still lives in Windenburg up North, Clara and Davis’s oldest daughter, Theresa is almost 17 now and is doing well in school. She is an active tennis player and loves to be in the know about things, making friends with a lot of different people around school, she’s very popular. Melissa is freshly 13 and thriving in her teenagehood, she’s cheerful and a vegetarian after reading “A Fleshless Diet” by J.L. Buttner.

On the other side, Edwin is married to Glenda but they have no children due to some medical complications. Cordelia lives on her own in a rotation of houses, as she gets bored easily, and for similar reasons, has not married. She prefers to spend time with her cat, Agatha, and in her lady’s groups at the country club. Don’t worry, we’ll be seeing more of them soon…

And I think we are caught up! If you want to know more or see more of any of these family members I do play with them too! I just don’t post about them to keep the story more streamlined. So just let me know if you are interested in learning more about anyone!

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Fashion Show 2022 Isabel Marant 👗 Collection: Ready to Wear Season: Womens and Mens Fall Winter 2022 (FW22) Runway Show Location of the event: Paris Fashion Week 2022 (PFW 2022) Video quality: 1080p (Full HD)

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Isabel Marant Spring 2023

Model: Kiki Willems

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Paris Spring 2022 (Part One)

Acne Studios

Alexander McQueen

Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood

AZ Factory

Casablanca

Coperni

Dior Men

Hodakova

Isabel Marant

Issey Miyake

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Movie Review | The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)

After stepping through Heaven's Gate spending a couple of Desperate Hours over the last weekend, I was still in a Michael Cimino mood so I decided to... become The Deer Hunter... by rewatching The Deer Hunter. Sorry, that was terrible. I promise I won't partake in any more awful attempted wordplay in this review. Anyway, after my qualms with the construction of both of those movies, it was nice to be reminded, after probably fifteen years since my last viewing, how well paced this one is. I think one of the more common complaints about this is the length of the wedding sequence in the first hour, but I think it's a pretty essential part of the movie and the runtime is well used. Over this hour, you get the sense of the community the heroes come from, and the amount of time Cimino devotes to capturing life in this town allows us to grasp its rhythms and contradictions. A lesser movie would paint it in saccharine sentiment or glib generalizations (I think of one particularly on the nose moment from We Were Soldiers where characters mistake racism for strict laundry rules), but Cimino's camera does not shy away from uglier moments, like the depressing normalcy of violence against women. There's a novelistic richness here with the level of detail and specificity, the fact that the community is only a generation or two away from its immigrant roots, the fact that most of the men are employed by the steel mill and that there isn't much else to do around here, each character's virtues and flaws being slowly shaded in. This may not be a perfect town, or even every town, but it's theirs.

The languorous pacing of the first act also sets up the sledgehammer impact of the second act, when we're plunged into the thick of combat and then the notorious Russian Roulette torture scene. This stretch only lasts for around half an hour (and we maybe spend an hour in Vietnam, apologies if I'm off by a few minutes, my watch is low on batteries), but it casts a pall over the rest of the movie. Any semblance of normalcy we had in that first hour has been shattered. The movie has been criticized for its monstrous depiction of the Vietnamese, and I think the points leveled against it are fair. But the movie is upfront about channeling the Vietnam War from the American experience, and from that perspective there's maybe a certain emotional honesty in reveling in such ugliness. If you're going to depict characters struggling with PTSD and try to show the completeness of their experience, it makes sense to depict their time in combat with raw, unmitigated terror. I recognize this puts the movie in morally compromised territory, but on a gut level, I was moved.

Now, when I last watched this as a teenager, I'd found much of the last third, whereupon Robert De Niro returns from Vietnam and takes up with Meryl Streep, to be a little boring. I can offer two such reasons for having held this opinion. One, as all teenage boys can attest, all girls have cooties, and that extends to multiple Oscar Winner Meryl Streep. Two, I was very much hoping that the movie would get (back) to the Russian Roulette factory and found the return to small town Pennsylvania kinda slow. (Before you ask, I was and probably still am very much a film bro, although mostly but not entirely loving The Deer Hunter is hardly the worst opinion a film bro can have. The worst opinion a film bro can have is liking The Boondock Saints, of which I am still guilty as charged. Sorry, Willem Dafoe is so funny in that movie.) Thankfully, I've now atoned for my thoughtcrime, and now recognize that Streep, like practically everybody in this movie, is great, and that the offness of that last hour is integral to the movie's effect.

If we're gonna step back into the Cimino Corner, as far as female performance go, I think I preferred Isabelle Huppert in Heaven's Gate than Streep here, although Huppert's role is emotionally loadbearing while Streep's is auxiliary by definition. And I think the offness allows us to feel on a gut level the difficulty of readjusting to "normal" life when you've been through such a harrowing experience. The depictions of wilderness provide an easy to grasp example. The forest is breathtaking in its beauty in that first hour, but having been through the Vietnamese jungle and its evil aura, it is difficult to feel that same emotion when we go for another hunting trip after having come home. (De Niro finds himself unable to kill a deer upon his return, something Cimino compensated for by killing way more animals for real in his next movie.) We have a few characters whose versions of masculinity are not completely aligned but in close enough proximity before going to war, drift apart in this respect upon their return as they struggle to readjust in different ways. Christopher Walken, whose performance is probably the most showy, goes to one extreme, John Savage the most vulnerable, and De Niro the most withdrawn. I think the other performance of his that this most brings to mind is The Irishman. The characters in question are very different in most respects, but both lack the ability to articulate their experiences, benefit from that particular contemplative quietness De Niro brings.

So yeah, good movie. Check it out, folks.