Italian woman: Sophia.

Sophia Loren.
Born: Rome, Kingdom of Italy, 1934.

Helmut Lang Lucite Ball Slide

via The Dreslyn

Futuristic '90s shoes... which sadly seem to be sold out everywhere. :(
But they're good inspiration all the same. :)

Tawny + red lipstick.

*Images taken from my Tumblr.

The extremely photogenic Devon Aoki in:
→ "Two Tone" by Tom Munro for Vogue UK, April 2001
→ Hugo Boss SS17 Campaign by Harley Weir

Details

Variations on a theme: making a simple outfit "sprezzy*."


*"Sprezzy" is the anglicized slang term for sprezzatura, an Italian word that means studied nonchalance.

St. Paul, Albrecht Durer (1514)

St. Paul (First State), 1514, Albrecht Durer
Medium: engraving

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends... So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." -I Corinthians 13:4-8, 13

These very famous words on the attributes of true love which true Christians were and are to emulate, were written by St. Paul in his First Epistle to the church at Corinth.