A few new gothic-y pieces for October 🖤🖤🖤 #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #beautifulbizarre

I grew up with Cicely Mary Barker’s flower fairies books and used to attempt to fashion wardrobes for wooden peg dolls out of leaves. This is a true wood nymph’s dress, c1918 Lucile, ethereal layers and embellishments @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #kelvingroveartgallery #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Entries 1 to 43 of an ongoing project reimagining Beatles songs as old, mid century design inspired film posters.

This will be forever one of my favourite garments in the V&A. It is a late #1890s coat from Marshall & Snelgrove, featuring hand embroidered sweet cicely flowers with white felt petals that float on top of blue velvet, V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Morning all. Photograph from Lee Shulman’s Anonymous Project. www.instagram.com/the.anonymou...

MSP hidden gem. Beautiful melancholy. Door to the River - Manic Street Preachers, 2002 #manics #foreverdelayed youtu.be/cg31h83yGTA?...

This is the last of the Croydon postcards.

“A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH” (1946) dirs. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Marius Goring 🎬 Eagle-Lion Films

Still Life, Bouquet of Dahlias and White Book, 1923 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16664

In the October 1953 issue of of Harper’s Bazaar, this sparkling Sophie Gimbel cocktail gown was described as the Dress of a Thousand Lights. It does resemble the clearest of night skies with every constellation glittering #museumatfit #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

This was the end of the news at 10. Drone footage from travel blogger Vadim Makhorov has captured a group of polar bears living inside an abandoned research station on Russia's Kolyuchin Island #Incroyable

JAMES // Sometimes Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes I swear I can see your soul #james #laid

Fur and Purr (2024) by Véronique Desbrosses. Mixed media on paper. #Caturday

🧵 Today we might share what we create online. But in the 17th century, some accomplished women showcased their talent on treasure boxes. This embroidered box from around 1665 is an impressive example. Created in England, it features scenes from the life of Abraham, stitched with incredible skill.

Ouida was one of the most popular novelists of the late 19th century. Though she was much criticized for her excesses, Oscar Wilde wrote of a typical Ouida novel, "With all its faults, which are great, and its absurdities, which are greater, it is still a book to be read.” neglectedbooks.com?p=3559

Edith Schiele's evening shoes with"Osterglocken" Wiener Werkstätte fabric. 1912. Image: Albertina Museum.

Elizabeth Taylor

Marilyn Monroe

In Intriguing Furniture news: yesterday I visited Lichfield Cathedral and found a new 13 metre long table made from a 5000-year-old oak log discovered perfectly preserved in a peat bog in 2016. The cut planks took 9 months to dry out, losing 2 tonnes of weight in the process. Definitely haunted...

Grace Kelly

Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant William Blake: or thicc Satan Wordsworth: or what??? Blake: I have produced a sketch-

David Bowie, 1995, by Frank Ockenfels III.

Yes, this is real. That really is a medieval tower on stilts while builders built around and under it. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Daughter starts university today, so this really does hit home

"Don't you think it's time we were introduced?" Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) and Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) become better acquainted in North by Northwest (1959)

IF YOU TOLERATE THIS THEN YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT

Andrea Kowch's newest/latest work : "Nightfall" (2025) 10" x 10" Acrylic on canvas

Marlene Dietrich by Louise Dahl-Wolfe.

David Bowie, Scary Monsters photo session, 1980, by Brian Duffy.

A new piece for a made-up theatre poster for a made-up gothic play 🖤 #theatreposter #theatreposters #theatre #theater #theaterposter #theaterposters 🐈‍⬛

AUTUMN FAIRIES John Anster Fitzgerald's 'Rabbit Among the Fairies' is a glorious depiction of fairies in #autumn. If you look closely the rabbit is held captive by the tricksy fairies, symbolised by a rather menacing fairy to the left wielding a hawthorn spear #GothicFairies

The perfect holiday reading quartet 📚☀️😎 @davidbarnettuk.bsky.social @janicehallett.bsky.social @annamazz.bsky.social #mickherron #slowhorses #alpertonangels #scuttlerscove #thestorykeeper #booksky

Shall we get it commissioned ? 🐰

One of the most underrated scenes in all of #TwinPeaks.

Why You Should Only Work 3–4 Hours a Day, Like Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf & Adam Smith

168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure: A History Of Manic Street Preachers Reviewed: “Completely definitive - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐” Out this week on White Rabbit Books, MOJO writer Keith Cameron presents a masterful, forensic exploration of the Welsh iconoclasts, via their songs...

The sweet yet melancholic vibes of this animation is so moving. All the feels in the work of Giovanni Esposito / Quasirosso #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #animation #procreatedreams #surrealart #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art

Municipal guide cover of the day (possibly an all time great!): Croydon, 1971. Countdown typeface klaxon!

”Yaegaki” is the first in a new series by Senjushunga titled ”Kokin Meifu Den (famous women through the ages)”! #beautifulbizarre #senjushunga #japanese #japanesestyle #yaegaki #japanesehistory #womeninhistory #art

Teacups galore! Yaaaau!

Suede: Antidepressants - Review - ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2! louderthanwar.com/suede-3/ @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @nigelcarruk.bsky.social @suedehq.bsky.social

This #frockingFabulous 1930’s satin number, by an unknown maker, is such a bobby dazzler. I love the way the light makes magic on the fabric. #FashionHistory via Augusta Auctions.

Destiny https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-william-waterhouse/destiny-1900

A friend just sent me this. Anyone wanna go in on it with me... ? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

The wisdom of David Bowie youtube.com/shorts/2xDFt...

Beautiful guitar playing on this gorgeous Manic's track from 'Critical Thinking' album. Lyrics: JDB #staybeautiful #manicstreetpreachers youtu.be/Sldg89H2xOs?...

Fabulous Visigothic eagle brooch, AD 501-533. One of a pair of prestigious eagle brooches worn at shoulder height to fasten clothing. From Alovera, Guadalajara, Spain. Bronze, gold and glass. 📷 Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid #Archaeology

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.