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Awww, Sansa smiling! Take a good look because this is going to...

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:05:45 -0400

Awww, Sansa smiling! Take a good look because this is going to be the last time for a while.

Soon after this episode originally aired, my roommate at the...

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:51:47 -0400

Soon after this episode originally aired, my roommate at the time and I had a party and made the cocktails the girls are having here…”flirtinis” - champagne, vodka, and pineapple juice. Just the other day, a friend of mine who was in attendance told me they and the friends they brought with them to that party still talk about it…the party AND the cocktails. True story!

modelsofcolor: blackfemalemodels: The Black Girl Coalition...

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:45:26 -0400

modelsofcolor:

blackfemalemodels:

The Black Girl Coalition Press Conference (1992)

Gail O’Neill,Bethann Hardison,Iman,Peggy Dillard,Tyra Banks,Roshumba Williams, Veronica Webb,Karen Alexander,Naomi Campbell, and Cynthia Bailey

almost brought tears to my eyes. AMAZING!

These ladies paved the way for aspiring black models.

vexi86: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Everything-Game-of-Throne...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:58:08 -0400

vexi86:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Everything-Game-of-Thrones/171263046347157?fref=ts

faconmagazine: Fabulous Harley jacket at Rock It Again at...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:43:56 -0500

faconmagazine:

Fabulous Harley jacket at Rock It Again at Eastern Market

there is something about that classic motorcycle jacket silhouette…

nautilid: Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:36:00 -0500

nautilid:

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and bang a nun. If nothing in that sentence at least marginally interests you, I have no idea why you’re visiting this website.

One of the most badass human beings ever produced by France was born in 1670 into a life of wealth, privilege, and one-percenter opulence that meant she could have just spent her entire life chilling out Real Housewives style without ever so much as having to shank a single human being in the eye in a hellacious fit of rage, but, as we shall soon see, that sort of malaise really wasn’t this chick’s bag. Her father was the Grand Squire of France, meaning that he was pretty much the number-one dude responsible for training King Louis XIV’s pages and maintaining the Royal Stables, and this guy wasn’t really the sort of hard-drinking drill sergeant motherfucker who was going to let his little daughter grow up without learning the finer arts of dishing out knuckle sandwiches to her enemies or running would-be suitors through the small intestines with the pointy end of a rapier. This French R. Lee Ermey trained young Julie the same way he trained the King’s Squires, and as a young woman she learned the finer points of necessary life skills such as horseback riding, horse maintenance and repair, drinking excessively, gambling, fistfighting, avenging your honor, and stabbing people in the fucking face when they don’t have the good sense to step off when you’re threatening them. Growing up surrounded by tough men, this tall young beauty with the dark auburn hair and piercing blue eyes was forged into an instrument of badassitude.

Julie D’Aubigny got started early on her career of banging and/or killing everything in sight when, at the age of sixteen, she started having an affair with her father’s boss. The young Mademoiselle D’Aubigny soon proved herself way too hot for that guy to handle, however, so before long he gave her father a promotion, then got her married off to some spineless jackass-non-gratta known only as Monsoir Maupin so that she would leave him alone. Maupin was a Count or Viscount or Demi-Count or some shit, and he lived in one of the colonies across the sea and rarely spent time in France, and since this chick wasn’t about to move out to bumfuck nowhere and be a quiet little housewife in some malaria-infested corner of the world she rarely saw him and he doesn’t factor into her life story in any appreciable manner at all. The only real thing this guy provided was a title, some money, and a wedding ring, all of which allowed Julie to use her marital status as a way of being able to do promiscuous shit she wouldn’t have been able to get away with as an unmarried woman.

So, while her husband was off doing god-knows-what in Africa or India or wherever the hell he was, Julie D’Aubigny moved to Marseille and started hooking up with a badass fencing master who just so happened to be on the run for murder after he stabbed some dude to death in an alley outside Paris. The homicidal fugitive swordsman trained D’Aubigny in the finer arts of fencing for a while, but as soon as she realized the student was now the master she ditched his broke ass and started giving sword exhibitions across Marseille to hone her skills and make a little extra dough. Basically it worked like this – she’d pull out her sword, sing a song or two, and challenge anyone in the audience to battle her in a duel. If someone stepped up, she’d sing a humiliating song about them, then make them look like assholes who couldn’t tell the difference between a sword and a limp piece of linguine. Her skills were so lights-out gonzo that one time some jerkwad in the crowd called out that she wasn’t really a woman, but was some badass cross-dressing cavalier musketeer motherfucker who was ripping everyone off. She responded by ripping open her blouse and telling the audience to “judge for themselves”.

Oddly enough, kicking peoples’ asses for money eventually led to a completely unrelated job prospect – a career as the star attraction of the Paris Opera. Apparently, while this chick was singing songs to humiliate her enemies in the dueling circle, some powerful record execs were in the audience, and they were so impressed by her melodious contralto voice that they decided she should be doing better shit than stabbing people in the balls for spare change. In the span of a few months, the woman known in Marseilles only as “La Maupin” (meaning “The Mapuin”) went from a completely untrained street performer to the lead actress in the world’s most respected Opera, playing roles of badass Classical chicks like Pallas Athena, Medea, and Dido. In addition to her flair for the dramatic and innate musical talent, it also helped that La Maupin had a near-photographic memory and rarely needed to read her lines more than once before committing them to memory.

Of course, her fiery temperament in love and combat meant that she slept with or swordfought with most of the men and women in the opera at various points during her career. Like, one time some jackass doucheface pretty-boy actor was being overly-aggressive while talking to one of Julie’s actress friends, so La Maupin told that asshole to take a chill pill and show the lady some respect. He told her to fuck off and mind her own bitch business. Later that night, as he was walking home, he found La Maupin standing in the street, weapon drawn, challenging him to a duel for honor. When the guy refused to pull his sword, she fucking beat his ass with a wooden cane, stole his pocketwatch, and left his dumb ass in an alley. The next day, the dude came to work with a couple black eyes, and when people were like, “WTF is up with your face,” he told them he got jumped by three big black dudes armed with hammers and baseball bats. As soon as he said this, La Maupin pulled out the dude’s pocketwatch and called him out a lying liar from Douchebagville. Then, to make matters more humiliating, she then forced the dude to kneel and beg forgiveness in front of all his co-workers before he could get his shit back.

La Maupin was also kind of a hardcore bisexual, and some of her tales of badass awesomeness dueling over female lovers and seducing chambermaids read like they were perpetrated by musketeers or pirates or some other ultra-daring swashbuckling male heroes of eighteenth-century literature. Of course, being a woman, Julie D’Aubigny could pull off some feats of romantic badassitude that most men could only dream of. The most notable example of this was the time that she became a nun just so she could hook up with one of the sisters in the convent. The story goes like this: One time the Mademoiselle D’Aubigny got some super-hot lusty blonde to fall in love with her. When the blonde’s parents found out their daughter was a lesbo, they had their “ravished” daughter put into a convent, totally unaware that this wasn’t going to be nearly enough to deter La Maupin – D’Aubigny took the holy orders, entered the convent as an initiate, created a diversion by setting the fucking convent on fire, and then kidnapped the blonde nun, snuck her out of there, and shacked up with her for like a month. Are you kidding me with this?

Of course, this chick was a lover as well as a fighter, and sometimes she was actually both at the same time. Like, one time a trio of drunk assholes were giving Julie shit while she was performing her songs in a rowdy tavern, so the star of the Paris Opera took all three of them out into the grassy courtyard, and when they all jumped her at the same time with their swords she drew her blade and made sure every single one of them was suffering from multiple stab wounds before she went back to the tavern. The next day she felt kind of bad about stabbing the fucking ass out of one of the dudes, so she went to his room to see how he was doing, and then ended up seducing him and getting busy with him relentlessly for like three weeks straight. You know you’re a fucking baller chick when you can shank a dude through the abdomen with a rapier and then still get it on with him. I mean, guys are easy, but they ain’t that easy.

On another occasion, La Maupin was at a Royal Ball in the palace of King Louis XIV, attending as the guest of Louis’ brother, Prince Philippe of France. She showed up to the party dressed as a man in a scarlet tunic and immediately started dancing with all the hot bitches, showing up all the young dudes looking for hot young wives. This was fine and all, but when La Maupin had the audacity to tongue-kiss a particularly fine-looking blonde marquise right in front of the entire Royal family, three jackass noblemen got a little bent out of shape about it and told Maupin she needed to start acting like a lady and stop macking on all the hot babes. La Maupin offered to take it outside, defeated all three men in three consecutive duels, then came back to the party while the trio of poseurs were still lying bleeding in the street like dogs. This event drew a little heat on the Maupin, so while she waited for things to cool down she decided to go to Brussels for a while and have an affair with the German Prince who happened to be the guy in charge of ruling over the Spanish Netherlands (no biggie).

Julie D’Aubigny, La Maupin, the most badass swashbuckler of 17th-century France, did eventually settle down a little, returned home to Paris, reunited with her husband, resumed her career as the star attraction of the Paris Opera. She died in 1707 of unknown causes at the age of 37, living fast, dying young, and leaving a good-looking corpse.

modcloth: Chastity of Garner Style in a lovely striped...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:20:53 -0500

modcloth:

Chastity of Garner Style in a lovely striped skirt.

gorgeous skirt! I find myself wishing her shoes were red (or orange).

game-of-style: House Tyrell - Fausto Sarli Haute Couture Spring...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:18:38 -0500

game-of-style:

House Tyrell - Fausto Sarli Haute Couture Spring Summer 2009

perfect for my girl Margaery

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:09:47 -0500

the best way to do leopard print!

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:06:27 -0500

the best way to do leopard print!

womensweardaily: Armani Privé Spring Couture 2013 The designer...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:05 -0500

womensweardaily:

Armani Privé Spring Couture 2013

The designer presented a lineup of mostly streamlined looks in high-intensity, high-shine fabrics, the exotica rendered via a moody palette. For More

I find myself being attracted to shiny gold things this spring. What’s up with that? Friends, should I seek help or just go with it?

womensweardaily: Bouchra Jarrar Spring Couture 2013 The...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:54:02 -0500

womensweardaily:

Bouchra Jarrar Spring Couture 2013

The daywear-driven collection crackled with modernity and Parisian chic — energized further with a dash of subversion. For More

nevver: Nice Pants bold.

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:07:48 -0500

nevver:

Nice Pants

bold.

game-of-style: House Stark - Wolf Pack cuff(x) I want this.

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:03:41 -0500

game-of-style:

House Stark - Wolf Pack cuff(x)

I want this.

game-of-style: Cersei Lannister - Zac Posen spring 2012

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:50:31 -0500

game-of-style:

Cersei Lannister - Zac Posen spring 2012

"It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not..."

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:46:43 -0500

“It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.”

- the most important paragraph of Barack Obama’s second inaugural address, according to Chris Cillizza. (via washingtonpoststyle)

sometimes more is more.

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:45:02 -0500

sometimes more is more.

asiansinhighfashion: Alexander Wang’s niece @ NYFW 2

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:21:38 -0400

asiansinhighfashion:

Alexander Wang’s niece @ NYFW 2

csiriano: You’ve seen our clothing on the racks of department...

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:33:12 -0400

csiriano:

You’ve seen our clothing on the racks of department stores and boutiques around the world, now watch our team prepare and launch our own retail store (our first!) at 252 Elizabeth Street, New York City. Open now!

For more information about the store, please visit:
http://csiriano.tumblr.com/post/28414083920/new-christian-siriano-retail-stor…

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Filmed & edited by Brad Walsh. http://www.bradwalsh.com
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People need to get over this Celine bag. It’s nothing...

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:30:09 -0400

People need to get over this Celine bag. It’s nothing special, and there are only a million other great “it” bags to obsess over. Emperor’s New Clothes, people.