After a long time without posting on my blog, here is a sweet "welcome back" treat for all my friends vintage & photography lovers:

Just making small aesthetic gifts to myself since my birthday is getting closer… With the hope that you, my friends, find them pleasant to see as well)

There were days (it’s hard to believe now) when you didn’t have to be obsessively politically correct while creating advertisements and you could be just compulsively and spontaneously genius, from time to time)

The obsession for Lover’s Eyes flourished for only a short time, but this is a story made for romantics.

Can we all have a less plastic Christmas please? Personally, I am in the mood for a vintage holiday spirit. I somehow felt it soooo intensely while decorating the tree with several of our more than 70 years old glass toys that survived all the craziness of post war - Soviet - post Soviet Russia in my grandparents' family and have been successfully dragged through my long immigration odissey.

Today I was thinking about Maria Callas and the heart breaking story of her love for Aristotle Onassis, which was traded for the big money of the American market just like that, with no second thoughts…life is life, business is business, nothing to do about it. I don’t think I need to rewrite the famous story here since it’s easily found on Google in any language. If you don’t know anything about it, it’s worth looking up. A passion to die for, and no happy end. I decided - no extra bubbling tonight. So please just enjoy this short selection of my favorite pics from the greatest Diva's photo archive, showing her as a Woman who loved, suffered and lived.

As Anna Wintour says, “The best cover is always the next one, the one you haven’t seen yet.” However, I find it extremely interesting to see how the art of fine living transformed through the years and a vintage VOGUE cover is capable of showing us the essence of it, just in one image. Don’t want to make you read my chaotic texts for longer than one minute, so let me pass to directly throwing several amazing vogue covers here, the selection might seem random but these are just several of my personal favorites, with no further logics to it )