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Her parents (French & Korean) each runs a ceramic shop du bon heir au quotidian and writes children's books; she wanders around Paris with her pet shiba Pompon.

This is Philo, age (almost) 2.

http://instagram.com/philo_pompon

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In this world

love has no colour

yet how deeply my body

is stained by yours.

- Izumi Shikibu

Helen Frankenthaler, an American abstract expressionist painter. See her full series of portraits in New York 1969 here.

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Alice Sara Ott, a 23-year-old German-Japanese pianist.

She plays the Appassionata better than anyone else.

The Fallen Angel

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Miss Dior, the sensual silhouettes illustrated and envisioned by René Gruau.

Dear Audrey,

I collect your pictures, especially the really rare ones of you - when you are behind a set, sipping your tea, being yourself only for yourself but not for the public eye. You radiate perpetual beauty and elegance through your bright eyes and kind deeds. But it is interesting to see - with more images of you circulating, the femme mystique of you grows.

This is one of my favourite quotes of yours,

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Kisses to you too,

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Clémence Poésy: dis-moi, pourquoi est-elle très belle?

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Cara Delevingne is an 18 year-old model and actress from London. In her own words, she's a 'drama queen, chiller and first class biller', describing her style as 'cool, calm and comfortable' - i-D

I know her as the girl to watch in 2011, and who makes asos clothes look ever so good.

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When she plays, the piano melts away.
Martha Argerich.

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Marc Jacobs' Muse, and also one of the brightest directors and script writers of our times; from Virgins Suicide, Marie Antoinette to Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola transformed her films into an aesthetic feast and deep rumination on urban tales and fantasies.

Here is an NY Times article on Sofia Coppola's Paris, and her flickr photo pool.

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She is so hot; Hot in colour and cool in black and white. And sometimes you cannot help wonder what is behind that mesmerising flick of her eyeliner.
Brigitte Bardot.

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Quoting Penguin Modern Classics -

Carson McCullers was born at Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 and died in Nyack, New York, in 1967. Although her life was short, and beset by serious illness - she suffered three strokes before she was thirty - McCullers created a substantial and impressive body of work... McCullers was only twenty-three when, in 1940, she burst onto the New York literacy scene with her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

McCuller's achievement has been recognised worldwide,.. V.S. Pritchett described her an 'incomparable storyteller'. WIlliam Trevor named The Heart is a Lovely Hunter as one of his ten desert-island novels: 'I value her perceptions, the casting of her spell, what she says and how she says it, her own enduring heart.'

She is one of the best storytellers of the past century - as I read on (addicted, and can hardly put down the book), she transformed my average tube journey into a swirl-wind of stories of many men and women in the deep south American wilderness, as the men and women poured their heart onto McCullers, and her narrative whispers so softly yet firmly into our ears.

And you will see no fragility in her body, but only her bright mind, her wide, bright eyes, burn right inside your eyes.

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*from luz de noche's photostream

It was the summer before when my boyfriend introduces me to nouvelle vague (french new wave) films - in the heat of the summer we spent hours hiding away in cinemas and watching Jean-Luc Godard's films. Anna Karina is the star, beauty and muse in many of his movies (apparently they co-directed some films together!) in the 60's, and while Jean Seberg is a composed, calm, intelligent American beauty, Anna Karina is sure the bubbly Danish girl, full of wit and exuberance and irresistable charm. She looks great in both blanc et noir and colour!

I especially love Bande a Part and Une Femme est Une Femme.

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Francoise Sagan (1935 - 2004)

She took her nom de plume from the Princesse de Sagan of Marcel Proust. She was eighteen years old when she wrote Bonjour Tristesse.