“She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.”
- Angela Carter, Nights At The Circus, 1984
“You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it, you're making fun out of it. You're expressing what’s basically serious to you in terms of fun and artifice and elegance.”
-Christopher Isherwood, The World in the Evening, 1954
references
Andy Warhol, ‘Marilyn’s Lips,’ 1962, Hirschmorn Museum, New York
George Hopkin, ‘Peacock Costume for Theda Bara, Cleopatra,’ 1917, Los Angeles
Miuccia Prada, ‘Lip & Lipstick Print, Spring Summer 2000,’ 1999, Milan
Pablo Picasso, ‘The Three Dancers,’ 1925, Tate, London
Salvador Dalí, ‘Flordali - Grenade et l'Ange,’ 1969, The Dalí Museum, St Petersburg
Salvador Dalí, ‘Mae West’s Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment,’ 1934-5, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Yves Saint Laurent, ‘Lip Print, Scandal, Spring Summer 1971,’ 1971, Paris