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to be loved is to be seen

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Zouzou (1934)

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madonna performing vogue at the mtv video music awards, 1990

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Doechii for Cashapp

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Brandi Quinones for Lolita Lempicka Fall, 1994

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A snowball fight in front of Notre-Dame-de-Paris in 1938.

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Started thinking deeper about this and I think the thing that’s always made the U.K. so jarring and is only getting worse. Is the fact that there actually are an abundance of opportunities, but they’re literally getting passed around the same 100 white people.

Coming back to my old job for some holiday work has reminded me exactly why I have zero interest in working in the U.K. ever again lol

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1972 ad for Nina Ricci’s L'air du temps

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Ever since I was a little girl I’ve loved information

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Ella Fitzgerald & Dizzy Gillespie, 1947 ♡

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She's a very mysterious creature, with an open smile and a closed soul.

Colette, from a letter to Madame Léopold Marchand c. December 1931

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Coming back to my old job for some holiday work has reminded me exactly why I have zero interest in working in the U.K. ever again lol

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Cinderella. Names have power, like magic spells. And of a sudden it seemed to her that her stepmother and stepsisters had indeed transformed her into merely a creature of ash and toil.

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stars (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

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Via

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Agnès Soral and Catherine Zeta Jones in Catherine the Great (1995). Costumes by Barbara Baum.

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couple in abidjan (2005)