― Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) The Angel: Fate. There is fate. But it only takes you so far…because once you’re there, it’s up to you to make it happen.
From Alice Walker’s autobiography - Anything We Loved Can Be Saved
“My middle name really is perseverance. I’ve always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person… I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn’t worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that’s what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them… I felt I had talent.”
Happy 87th birthday to Rita Moreno, trailblazing artist and living legend! Here she is in Loomis Dean’s 1954 photographs for LIFE and in the present-day, as gorgeous and glorious as ever.
yaoqian shang photographed performing as moyna in giselle by phil hitchman
Hedy Lamarr in “Ziegfeld Girl’, 1941. Hedy’s showgirl costume was designed by the legendary Adrian, who gave Joan Crawford her trademark shoulder pads.
“Advancing Cat”, Illustration by Louis Wain, UK, 1920′s.
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John Schabel - Passengers
“For a period in the 1990s, John Schabel camped out on overpasses near New York airports, peering with a giant telephoto lens into the cabin windows of aircraft waiting, and waiting, for takeoff.”
Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly rehearsing a dance number for Singin’ In The Rain, 1952
Yayoi Kusama, with sculptures, 1964
Rehearsal for West Side Story, 1961, with Rita Moreno working in the back on her part in a different dance.
Chloë Sevigny for M Le Magazine Du Monde May 2019 by Briana Capozzi
Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)
christian dior couture spring 2o19