Floral fashion lookbooks
Photo sources : tweedrose.com/2013/09/red-valentino-springsummer-2014-lookbook and Pinterest
Botanique rêvée
I designed the patterns with Photoshop using my photos of the Tenerife nature (background) and photos of flowers in Paris (dahlias, roses, magnolias, peonies and cornflowers).
Lady Lilith
Dante Rossetti’s painting (Lady Lilith, 1866) and my floral pattern. Dante Rossetti painted as a model his mistress Fanny Cornforth but he changed it in 1872 and painted the face of Alexa Wilding. Rossetti wrote a sonnet dedicated to Lilith. Lilith was Adam’s first wife in Jewish mythology. She was a symbol of temptation and…
Pre-Raphaelite delicacy
Jules Frederic Ballavoine’s painting, pomegranate jewel, William Morris design and my photo of sea in Sicily. Pre-Raphaelism was a British artistic movement, born in the late 1840s, in London, during the Victorian era. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of three young students of the Royal Academy : William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), John Everett Millais…
