The Dark Knight of the Soul

so fucking beautiful.

Crown found after, like, 300 years

///In 1685, Vittoria della Rovere (portrait on the right), the Grand Duchess of Tuscany and the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II commissioned a gem-studded gold crown that she donated to the Carmelite nuns of Borgo Pinti in Florence as a symbol of her devotion to a new canonized saint, Maria Maddalena dè Pazzi, famous for her spiritual ecstasies.

That crown, embellished with 412 diamonds, 114 rubies, and 80 emeralds, was thought to have been lost–hidden away during the Napoleonic raids of the early 19th century–but it has been recently rediscovered in a convent in Florence, according to Piero Pacini, a scholar of Santa Maria Maddalena dè Pazzi, who has published photographs and an article about the crown in Medicea. Rivista interdisciplinare di studi medicei, an academic journal devoted to the study of the Medici family.

The crown for the saint was made by Giovanni Comparini and Giuseppe Vanni–the two goldsmiths that most often had the privilege of serving the Medici family in the 17th century–and cost 1800 scudi. It was begun in the summer of 1684, when Vittoria della Rovere, along with her goldsmiths, paid an unexpected visit to the Carmelite convent at Borgo Pinti and ordered the nuns to show her all the jewels that “belonged” to the saint. The Grand Duchess told the nuns that she intended to use the jewels to have a crown made for the saint and the project was completed in 10 months. For about two centuries after the crown was finished, it displayed to the saint’s faithful devotees on occasions when the saint’s incorruptible body was exposed and venerated.\\\
-eternally cool

I WANT A CROWN!!!! WITH A BIG PINK DIAMOND ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ashish

here's another GORGEOUS Ashish dress at net-a-porter.






APPROVED.

Marc Jacobs

awww i love this bag so much. it would go so perfectly with my new phone, Midnight Rape, dontcha think?!? kinda like how my old bowl 'man in the yellow hat' went so perfectly with my vintage yellow leather clutch i kept it in. until the police took it away...



this gun would also look good in it.

Phix Clothing

this necklace is HARD, like me, tryna park a dodge...

Jimmy Choo

i have been waiting for this day for so long!!! this clutch has been on the homepage of net-a-porter for, i don't know, weeeeks, and it has finally been added to the stock. i hate clutches, they are annoying, but this precious kitten, is NOT annoying. nevah. i mean, a pink sparkly leopard print jimmy choo object? really?

people. please use leopard print responsibly. don't let your ugly friends wear it, they will ruin it for us all!!!

Markus Lupfer

the ONLY thing more badass than this sweater is chasing vodka with milk. which i did once, in a not very badass way. actually the time my friend Brendan chased his whiskey with a chalupa from taco bell was pretty badass too. or maybe the time my father got a DUI on his way to pick tacos from some place that supposedly sold a bunch of tacos for really cheap. he is ~!Mexican!~ btw.

Vogue Korea

even more marcy-marc. he is really trying to please mommy. with rhinestones.

rhinestones...

even with an asian who isn't offensive.

Louis Vuitton

the question was first posted at The Lipstick Diaries: gnarly in a good way or gnarly in a bad way (i went to dictionary.com but they weren't much help...)

god knows i love all things sequined, but god also knows that i think Louis Vuitton is gnarly...in a bad way.

so here i am at this fork in the road... if i go one way i will have sex with my mom... the other way i will die fighting pirates. i guess it's kind of like which came first the chicken or the nugget? guess we'll never know...

but at the end of the day my love of sequins is great than my disdain for LV, so i suppose i will support this pretty ugly bag.

Pixie Market

ughh again with the pixie market!! i know. it's fuckin awesome.

i dont know. these shoes are really annoying kind of like that guy that keeps calling you wanting to have sex with you. but eventually you are drunk and horny and give in. i guess i am drunk and horny right now. please excuse the visuals.

they are so transparently ripoff designer. but hey! ripoff is my favorite designer! gr8.

ps. look at this pixie market bitch. LOOK don't touch.