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americanwizarding:

“Formal styles this season favor a move away from traditional cloaks and towards surcotes, tight in the chest and split from the waist down to reveal the robes or gowns beneath. Madam Dogun’s designs favor large collars and trefoil closures, with wand-pockets sewn into large, billowing sleeves, while those of up-and-coming designer Anastasia Bargrova-Bolling more nearly resemble Empire-era spencers, higher-collared and tighter through the sleeve. ABB’s embroidery patterns, inspired by Russia and Central Asia, save these designs from being too derivative.”

—The Elegant Enchantress, Autumn 2013 issue

amortentiafashion:

(A La Russe)

velvetrunway:

Sorapol F/W 2014

amortentiafashion:

Zivanka is the owner and barmaid of the Spiny Serpent on Knockturn Alley. Her whiskey is unrivaled in quality and everyone in the pub is slightly afraid of her (“Barny told me she used to be an advisor to a Bratva boss, and that’s where she lost her ring finger–”).

No one would ever guess that she is married to a Muggle primary school teacher, and she likes to keep it that way.

(Tilda Swinton)

amortentiafashion:

magicalcutzi:

I just accidentally found this really rare old picture of Emilie Autumn from the 90s or early 2000s. I think it’s a promo picture for Ravensong, either that or On a Day. She looks gorgeous ❤

(Thanks to estdea for the submission!)

agameofclothes:

What Lysa would have worn in her later years, Georges Hobeika

amortentiafashion:

sirensongfashion:

Photographed by Paolo Roversi for Vogue Italia

A 1890 photograph of Ianthe Gaunt. The Gaunts at that time were still an affluent pureblood family. Ianthe was the black crup of her family, so to speak. She was fond of needle magic and rather less enamored of her family, whom she once wrote to be “conniving, puffed-up Goblins,” and was often quick to duel, which occasionally led to her family making a hasty donation to the Ministry. She eventually married into the Fortinbras family, which while not pureblood, was respectable enough. While she had no children, Ianthe’s name lives on as legend at in the Hogwarts dueling club, and her hand-stitched tapestries can be found in the second-floor Defense Against the Dark Arts corridor.

howardhawkshollywoodannex:

Teresa Stratas as Violetta in La Traviata (1982)

amortentiafashion:

carmidoll:

Laura Sciacovelli

Beautiful outer robes of midnight blue velvet are embossed with a gold pattern spelled to melt and drip golden tears down the fabric. These robes are truly a masterpiece, crafted by the renowned wixen couturier Cecil Ehn specifically for heiress Fideline MacMillan, pictured.

MacMillan, a journalist and international correspondent for WWN, wore it to a ceremony to receive her Order of Merlin, First Class. The award was given for her dedication to protecting Muggles caught in violent wixen conflicts abroad–almost always at the risk of her own life–while bringing attention via her reporting to the human rights violations suffered by Muggles and wix alike at the hands of despotic Muggle governments supported by their wixen counterparts.