15.9.10

the princess and the frog



i've always been facinated by this picture of laudomia hercolani.

 she was a princess (and an italian one at that), 
a model a set designer 
(the unsung hero, in my opinion, of the newly restored  
film by luchino visconti il gattopardo).


according to a vogue article from 1964:
 " a bemused admirer who insistently 
referred to himself as 'a real toad in an imaginary garden,'
 one day received a very large silver toad from 
from the princess (via Bulgari)
 accompanied by a line which said, 
'perhaps you got the quotation wrong and
 it is an imaginary toad 
in a
 real garden'.”


she's my kind of girl.



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