Lex Rex

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."

- Dame Edith Sitwell

Quo Vadis?

Relocation of the"Winged Victory of Samothrace" for safety during World War II. 1939.

Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Boeckhorst, "King David Playing the Harp" . 1616.

Accessorizing

Happy Birthday Elsa

"Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished."

- Elsa Maxwell

Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas

A Look We Like

Olé

Strike a Pose

Lex Rex

"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows."

- Dante Alighieri

Strike a Pose

Don Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, Duke of Alba

Accessorizing

Pink coral tiara.

Strike a Pose

A Look We Like

Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar II of Indore. Bernard Boutet de Monvel. 1929.

"It's a barrier and also a form of self respect. We are the only species on earth that clothe ourselves, so why don't clothe ourselves well."

- Daphne Guinness

Magister Dixit:

“The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.”

- Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, The Queen Mother, during the  war in Europe and the London bombings.

Magister Dixit:

"Don't forget to love yourself."

-  Kierkegaard