To begin...While I was growing up in a tropical city in Australia, the books of Colette kept me sane, and I dreamed of fin-de-siecle Paris-Lesbos in the heat.
"When Night is Falling" "The Truth about Cats & Dogs", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Orlando" , "Dracula"," Interview with the Vampire", "Desert Hearts" "Henry & June"
Louise Brooks, Lauren Bacall, Uma Thurman, Tim Curry, Tilda Swinton, Winona Ryder, Sigourney Weaver, Angelina Jolie
80's music- New Order, the Smiths, ABC, The Cure, Japan, the Eurthymics, Duran Duran etc, Shakespears Sister,
"Goth Music" Dead Can Dance, Delerium, Cocteau Twins
The Incomparable Sarah McLachlan, Charlie Chan, Sheila Chandra
Colette, Anne Rice, Katherine V. Forrest, Fiona Cooper , Proust
cats, mermaids, sirens
cooking, dining out, shopping
four poster beds, candles, incense
silk velvet, satin, silk, black lace, black leather
corsets,dark red lipstick, long black skirts, black lace blouses, white linen shirts
gothic architecture and books, vampyres
lilies, roses, honeysuckle, jasmine, wattle
long flowing dresses, blace lace lingerie, green silk lingerie
Femmeworld
Fabulous Femmes :Violet Trefusis , Renee Vivian, Colette, Josephine Baker, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Joan Nestle, Alice B. Toklas, Minnie Bruce Pratt