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Life ,,,  is Like a box of chocolates for Black Women.

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” Maya Angelou “ I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.”

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” ― Maya Angelou, “ “ I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.”

2nd photo credit :Mucubal Woman Holding Her Baby, Virie Area, Angola

nine of swords territory 

#black lace #nina simone #mood #fashion #music #art #tarot #nine of swords #lace #black history month #Belokonov Boris

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Black and White Works ....   The Mods  Remeber  "It's easy to face the music if you know the style"

#Black and White FASHION #MODS #walker sinclair visuals inspiration #designer Natalie Walker #back to basics #all color and no color #fashion trends #mod #mod fashion #donyale luna

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Algerian-born Yves Saint Laurent launched ‘Le Smoking’ Look in 1966, his couture collection featured a style that divided fashion critics: a black tailored tuxedo with a classic satin side stripe (similar to adidas 3 stripe today), worn with a white ruffled shirt. 

Responses were tepid – it was the first time that any couturier had presented trousers as an option for eveningwear, and women wearing it were refused entry by some restaurants the following season..  My How Times have changed, this is prety tame..

Historical POV

#yves saint laurent #fashion designers #fashion trends #fashion history #Le Smoking Jacket #tuxedo #revolution #inspiration #wsv dna #black #mounia #pret a porter #minimalism #algeria #electric kool-aid #acid test

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Politics and Fashion 

Lets take the  70′s , This time period was alive with political activism , Feminism. environmentalism, and fights for Racial Justice. Sound Familiar?  Fashion was Democratized by the Fashion Designers of the socialites  Halston and Yves Saint Laurent and Couture was no longer just for the elites it was accessible to every one.

 Ettiquette was broken and replaced with Do you (Tommy) .. ONE way to express oneself was through Color.

#halston #democratized #designers #couture #political #political activism #fashion #Yves Saint Laurent #halston sage #environmentalism #racial justice #feminism #democracy #fashion designers #fashion history

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Queen Tings  Original Muva Beverly Johnson 70

Lovr these Classic black and white photos 

#Beverly Johnson #blm #beauty #quuen #qween

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Human Butterflies ...... Fashion and The Lens...

#fashion #photography #color #human butterfly #butterfly #contortion

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Seydou Keïta

❤💕❤💕❤💕❤💕

West African Photographer 

A self-taught  photographer, he opened a studio in 1948 and specialized in portraiture.

His  clients were drawn by the quality of his photos and his great sense of aesthetics. Many were young men, dressed in European style clothing. Some customers brought in items they wanted to be photographed with but Keita also had a choice of European clothing and accessories - watches, pens, radios, scooter, etc. - which he put at their disposal in his studio. The women came in flowing robes often covering their legs and their throats, only beginning to wear Western outfits in the late 60s.  Beautiful shots of West African life.

#self-taught #Seydou Keïta #photographer #photographed #portraiture #West African vintage photography #african men #african women #european #quality #apeture #black and white #black man #black woman #black people #black is queen #black is king #diaspora #black is beautiful #black beauty

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Late Night Mood , perusing favorite illustrators in this case Bill Donovan and listening to Dilla homages.    

Bills sketches of Black Woman are just gorgeous , litterally i can envision these women in waking life.

Bill works in watercolor and gouache , he is artist in residence for Christian Dior.  To add to this hectic schecule  Bil is the author of Advanced Fashion Drawing / Lifestyle Illustration and has illustrated a number of books including The Dress Doctor, from the original by costume designer Edith Head and Birds of a Feather Shop Together, a collection of fashion fables, both for Harper Collins and more recently, The Pursuit of Style for the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

#Bill Donovan #south philadelphia #south philly #fashion illustrator #illustrator #watercolor #gouache #costume designe black women #The Dress Doctor #Birds f a feather #author #Harper Collins #Fashion Designers of America #The Pursuit of Style #books #luxure magazine #colorful #colors #illustrations of black women #wsvdna

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The Talisman , Fragments of Time Lost

Cameos were used as talismans.   These particular Cameos were created during the  Renaissance era through the Victorian era.  Little is known about the African models, were they Nobility?   Slaves? Indentured servants? 

#Cameos #organic #gold #Black Woman #Miseroni #Renaissance #slave #indentured servitude #itallian #french #diamonds #Roman Senator #Silver #ta;ismans #talisman

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Indigenous First People of the Americas Mask Art

Two Wolves – A Cherokee Parable“ An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life…

‘A fight is going on inside me,’ he said to the boy. ‘It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego. The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you and inside every other person, too.’ The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, ‘Which wolf will win?’ The old chief simply replied, ‘The one you feed.”We all wear masks since the begining of time . Today’s masks consist of ‘Brands and snap chat filters 

  Edward S. Curtis often asked natives to recreate their ceremonies wearing traditional garb so he could capture them on camera.

#native #native american #indian #siouc #Cherokee Parable #Koskimo person #Pgwis--Qagyuhl #edward s. curtis #photography #wsvdna #Paqusilahl #Tsunukwalahl--Qagyuhl #sioux #dancing #Tluwulahu costume--Qagyuhl #Mask octopus hunter--Qagyuhl

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COLOR SHE-RO

Love everything she created....

Sonia Delaunay (14 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a Ukrainian-born Russian artist, who formally trained in Russia and Germany and spent most of her working life in Paris.  She co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes . Check out some of her films below and most of all listen to  Mile Davis Sketches of Spain.

#Ukrainian- #France #Russia #Germany #artist #fashion #geometric #Sonia Delaunay #orphism #color #gerometic shapes #circles #mosaic #art #art history #colorful #20's #vintage #classic #color splicing

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Amazing looks like Mario , butit’s  Sengbe Pieh ( Joseph Cinque} Leader of the Seirra Leoneans of the Amistad , painted by Nathaniel Jocelyn1840S

Mario.......2002 The resemblance is uncanny what say you ?

#mario #babyletmeloveyou #Joesph Cinque #amistad #slave #singer #Sengbe Pieh #Nathaniel Jocelyn middle passage black is beautiful #black is king #art

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Color Mood.....

"I believe that something else, the substance of your spirit, stays incorporated in the work. The work is made to transmit emotion. The starting point of the artist, if they are figurative, is the world. … The material with which you work is the objective world, but you incorporate some of your soul, and that is art." Antonio Lopez

#fashion illustration #fashion editorial #fashion illustrator #fashion history #fashion trends #fashion #illustrator #illustrations #wwd #Antonio Lopez #colorful #wsvdna #walkersinclairvisuals #natalie walker designer #design #shapes

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“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”  – Audre Lorde 

 Haitian-born, New York-raised artist Fabiola Jean-Louis  powerful series of painterly photographs  aptly entitiled  “Rewriting History”  juxtaposes imagery typically associated with  European nobility of the 15th to 19th century  explored through a Black perspective. 

#Fabiola Jean-Louis #haitian #haiti #black #black lives matter #rewriting history #photographs #painterly photographs #protographer #female photographyer #European nobility black nobility

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Color Color . Form  Sashay.   Love Sam Gilliam’s work  full of Freedom..

​ “ I was free to try anything i wanted to do i was free to be easy or mysterious , free to be the artist I wanted to be” Sam Gilliam  

Sam Gilliam is  and lyrical abstractionist artist also a associate  of  the Washington Color School. “ 

#Color #black #afrofuturism #artists #fine painter #painter #Sam Gilliam #form #shape #compostion #colorful #color field painter #abstractionist #freedom #wsv dna #walkersincalirvisuals #natalie walker designer

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A Eyes Wide Shut Moment...

They dress up as every culture but their own .. But I digress this here post is about Yves Saint Laurent , his come up and these illustrations.

The late Baron de Redé, the noted French( Everything ? lol ) aesthete, host, and financier, might be better known for his 1969 Oriental Ball, he is almost as famous for an earlier fête: his "Bal des Têtes", which was held in 1956 at Hôtel Lambert, Redé's Paris residence. The ball's theme was headdresses, with guests encouraged to wear fanciful creations.

According to Redé's memoirs, Yves Saint Laurent, then an assistant at Dior, was hired to design the ball.  We don't know the extent of Saint Laurent's contributions, but we do know that he designed a number of headdresses for some of the lucky female guests.  You can see sketches of his headdress designs below.  He also illustrated a rendering which depicted the theme of the party

Interview with The Master 

#Baron de Redé #yves saint laurent #Bal des Têtes #Oriental Ball #Hôtel Lambert #sketches #headdress designs #headdress #yves st laurent #French aesthete #colorful #fashion illustrations #elsa maxwell #Jacqueline de Ribes #Charles de Beistegui #Eyes Wide Shut

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Jean Steou Street Artist / Illustrator , not much is known of him . But I am loving the underwater scene , and they make nice tatoos,...

#Hôtel Colorama #Biarritz #jean steou #artist #street artist #illustratior #thesea #sea #tattoo #tattoos #Whale #submarine #crab #black #sky blue