Materials

Vicomtesse Noailles At The Ball Masque.

♦

1929.

The architect

Jean – Michel Frank

organises a costume party

with the theme “Materials”.

The vicomtesse

Marie-Laure de Noailles

- c. villa noailles at hyères -

makes her appearance

wearing

a supremely non-functional dress

made out of sharkskin

[Frank’s signature].

Aknowledging that modern design involved

sensuality, display & humour

as much as it was a serious attempt

to engineer the future.

Sources: AA Files #58, St-Germain-de-Pres, Rive Gauche.

Jarvis ♥ Me

The mark of the devil

♣

The gReat thing about paris is

that one day you may wander

somewhere around Sacré-Cœur

and bump into jarvis.

[Just-like-that]

Escorted by your memories of

the first rockwave

the first teen-hood

the first kiss

the first-time

& peut-être the lasts.

Pulp fans grew up to be moms&dads

children is the new black

along with garethpugh/ moet –> wayfarers

jean dessen vintage T’s

jean shirts and

jean jeans.

When the b-sides are better than the a’s

all fingers will point at the guitar player

and when the crowd gathers for the autograph -

you won’t mind.

You had already [too] many.

Jarvis fades out and away rue chappe

while you sip your monaco

humming.

The mark of the devil is upon you

Your look is no happier than mine.

Sources: 97lovers, themarkofthedevil, gallery chappe, teen, pre-teen, post-teen years.