Day's end greets you with a chill in the air.
Skin is paler. Moods are darker.
The blanket of night feels sinister, foreboding.
... Autumn is the perfect foil for Halloween.
As much as I love sunshine and the inherent joys of summer, come October
I’m ready for a little kill and thrill. Bring on the horror flicks, the jack o’ lanterns and
the sinister costumes. Maybe it's the yang to my yin, the naughty to my nice.
Whatever it is, whatever the reason - I like me a little bad this time of year.
Nobody twisted beauty on its head like Alexander McQueen.
With the death of this genius in 2010, the fashion world lost
a formidable talent and incomparable visionary.
A bedroom that’s a little less Sleeping Beauty and a lot more Evil Queen.
Dark angel Lara Stone in Vogue Italia.
C. Jeré's Sunburst Nailhead Mirror is a dangerous beauty.
A room in Vivienda En La Finca in Madrid designed by A-Cero.
Spanish designers continue to blow my mind!
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The White Stripes, The Killers and Marilyn Manson. An All-Hallow’s-Eve concert trifecta.
Perhaps headlined by Mrs. Jack White herself, Karen Elson [in all her pale skinned,
red-headed glory] performing songs from her debut album, The Ghost Who Walks.
Pill Locket by Jade Jagger.
Lovely, convenient and deliciously inappropriate.
The devil wears Prada … and McQueen and Dior.
Gothic crocodile Poulpina cabinet by Michel Haillard.
The repressed woman expressing her inner she-devil styled by Alexandra Zaharova and Ilya Plotnikov.
Les Diaboliques (1955)
A headmaster’s wife and mistress conspire to kill him.
All goes awry when after the murder his body disappears.
The perfect rental for all you ladies with a bone to pick.
Speaking of bones …
Bone cutlery by John Gerrard through Artware Editions.
Francis Bacon’s Self-Portrait (1969) and Figure with Meat (1954)
Perhaps Damien Hirst – who purchased the self-portrait above for $34 million
from Sotheby's in 2007 – describes Bacon best … "I think Bacon is one of the
greatest painters of all time. He's up there with Goya, Soutine and Van Gogh:
dirty painters who wrestle with the dark stuff. He's complicated."
I read my first Poe story, A Tell-Tale Heart while still in grammar school. I think those
nuns liked to torture us a bit. But despite my tender years, I was hooked. His writing
is compelling, frightening, thrilling. And I'm dying to go on a Poe tour in Baltimore -
the ultimate Halloween activity.
For all my dark, complex and unconventional readers. Happy Halloween.
Tricia xo
Another great one! LOVE all the imagery, Tricia....Thx, Bryant
Posted by: Bryant | October 29, 2010 at 09:17 AM
Thx Bryant! It was a fun one to research/write. I'm always inspired by the unexpected and unconventional. Have a fun Halloween with that darling daughter of yours!
Posted by: Luxe & Lucid | October 31, 2010 at 05:19 PM