arms want to carry, heart wants to hold

warning. these models do look mega young. i wanted to look them up, but their names weren't listed. so i don't know how young they actually are. but. here's the thing. i love them. i love them i love them. because they look like amazing witch-lion children. they look otherworldy. the one who's lips turn up at the corners (image 1 etc.) so she is always smirking at least a little... the one who's lips are a straight line through the centre with an unbalanced downward arch on top (image 5 etc.) so she is severe and and skeptical and wise-looking... the one who is so indescribable except to say that she looks like camille cole just a little grown (image 4 etc.)... their eyebrows. yes. i am taken by them. they should all be in paintings. any one of them would make a brilliant re-imagining of my still-favourite painting of joan of arc by jules bastien-lepage. also, i do so love groupings of people. even if it is a grouping of one person. maybe even especially if it is a grouping of one person.

as for the clothes. rust and red earth and blue-black... it's like using the dead palette, just saturated a little more. the way the textures and patterns are layered, fur over pleats. smoothness over wrinkle. it's so structured but somehow quite wild - possibly because of the girls used. and, (say it with me) SHEER! lace. in such wonderful places. okay, enough with the words. look look.

 {pre-fall giambattista valli 2012, photos courtesy of giambattista valli by way of style.com}