NOSTALGIA: Fantasies of Designer Elsa Schiaparelli—Including a Fan of Crumpled Glass and Newspaper-Print Chintz Hats—Illustrated by Cecil Beaton in 1935
Learn more about the Costume Institute’s upcoming exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” on Vogue.com.
We usually don’t care much for art, but this model is FIERCE.
Johannes Vermeer, a dutch artist, has painted this masterpiece known as “The Girl with a Pearl Earring.” While we don’t know much about the girl in the portrait, we DO know that we want her earrings!
Work it, gurl!!!!!
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Amazonian Mushroom Eats Indestructible Plastics
The non-biodegradable polyurethane that environmentalists have been sighing over for decades may have met its match in fungus. Student researchers from Yale have discovered that Pestalotiopsis microspora (not shown) not only loves munching on the plastic that goes into everything from garden hoses to disposable bottles, but it can do it almost anywhere—even the depths of a landfill. —MN
