You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving to project his individuality against a backdrop of rigid conformity. You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you learn to control it the flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you. The flaw? Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them? All right, you think they’re fools, you despise them because their morals, their happiness is the source of your frustration and resentment. But these are dreadful enemies you carry within yourself—in time destructive as bullets. Mercifully, a bullet kills its victim. This other bacteria, permitted to age, does not kill a man but leaves in its wake the hulk of a creature torn and twisted; there is still fire within his being but it is kept alive by casting upon it faggots of scorn and hate. He may successfully accumulate, but he does not accumulate success, for he is his own enemy and is kept from truly enjoying his achievements.
Michelangelo’s David at the School of Belle Arti Museum in Florence, Italy
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Geliy Korzhev – Coat and boots, 1950s.
Christopher Michaut Photographed by Dan Smith and Styled by Katie Burnett for Crash Magazine
Arthur Gosse, Frederik Ruegger & Tom Webb, Dunhill Fall/Winter 2015-2016
London Fashion Week
Michelangelo’s David at the School of Belle Arti Museum in Florence, Italy
Michelangelo’s David at the School of Belle Arti Museum in Florence, Italy
Thomas Lawrence – Admiral John Markham (detail).
Michelangelo’s David at the School of Belle Arti Museum in Florence, Italy
Alexander Beck, Laurie Harding & Felix Gesnouin, Hardy Amies Fall/Winter 2015-2016
London Fashion Week
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. “