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Jean Paul Gaultier 30th Anniversary Retrospective Fashion Show (2006), dress
from the Spring/Summer 1977 collection.
But there are beauties more lofty than these, imperceptible to sense, that the soul without aid of sense perceives and proclaims. To perceive them we must go higher, leaving sensation behind on its own low level.
It is impossible to talk about bodily beauty if one, like one born blind, has never seen and known bodily beauty. In the same way, it is impossible to talk about the “luster” of right living and of learning and of the like if one has never cared for such things, never beheld “the face of justice” and temperance and seen it to be “beyond the beauty of evening or morning star.” Seeing of this sort is done only with the eye of the soul. And, seeing thus, one undergoes a joy, a wonder, and a distress more deep than any other because here one touches truth.
Such emotions all beauty must induce — an astonishment, a delicious wonderment, a longing, a love, a trembling that is all delight. It may be felt for things invisible quite as for things you see, and indeed the soul does feel it. All souls, we can say, feel it, but souls that are apt for love feel it especially. It is the same here as with bodily beauty. All perceive it. Not all are stung sharply by it. Only they whom we call lovers ever are.
Plotinus — from “Beauty” trans. Elmer O’Brien (via slothnorentropy)
jolie-laide [jol-ee-led]
(idiom) Only the French would have such a way to describe beauty. A wonderful slang expression, it literally means “pretty and ugly” but describes the type of feminine beauty that is human, and not manufactured by plastic surgeons. It’s a kind of fascinating quirkiness implying charisma, a face you want to keep looking at, even if you can’t decide whether it is beautiful or not. (via wordsnquotes)
“Watson, a self-proclaimed feminist and UN Women Global Ambassador, had her own ideas for her role. In addition to making Belle an inventor (you slay, queen), Emma stated in an interview with EW that she would not wear a corset in the remake.
“Emma wanted Belle to be an “active” princess, not one who would be held up with a restrictive corset.
“Watson worked closely with the designer to ensure it wouldn’t “impede” her backstory of being a princess who actually does more than sit around while still keeping the magical and whimsical Disney Princess feel of a ball-gown.
“This is a stark contrast to other live-action versions of Disney princess remakes, including the 2015 re-make of Cinderella, in which Lily James’s corset and tiny waistline sparked controversy, especially when James admitted to adhering to a “liquid diet” onset to fit into it.
“But as Emma made clear, Belle ain’t got time for that. She’s got stuff to invent and a voice to be heard.”
@smilingspider, maybe of interest to you as a Disney fan!
Dean’s Gift Book of Fairy Tales (1967) l “Beauty and the Beast”
illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone
Helene Stanley dancing for Marc Davis and other animators for Sleeping Beauty. See the video here.
Sleeping Beauty, from Dean’s Book of Fairy Tales, illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame johnstone
(Via http://cizgilimasallar.blogspot.com/2013/05/deans-book-of-fairy-tales-by-janet-and.html)