sometimes when it rains, it doesn't really.

pc - R. Coco + various, quotes - R. Coco + 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton













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do you believe in fairies?

Tinker Belle's ForestVogue Nippon, March '02Photographer: Koto BolofoStylist: Nikki Brewster
Text from 'Peter Pan,' by J.M. Barrie

happy father's day or...

a place where one's alone.

A Private WorldVogue Italia November 2008Photographer: Tim WalkerModels: Sunniva Stordahl and Alice GibbStylist: if you know, please tell me!


Dear Whomever Can Make This Possible, I would very much like to have the mermaid costume and that giant spiderweb. Merci! :) xxo.

fishes in the trees, or, love hurts. a lot.

Let's Pretend Children's Radio Show, "The Little Mermaid."













the last page of the original manuscript by Andersen:







clips from Rusalochka, 1976, to music by Yann Tiersen:






Part of Your World, Disney's The Little Mermaid, 1989

pc-collage by me, R. Coco; Toni Frissell; Annie Leibovitz, feat. Julianne Moore.

unidentified text-excerpts from the original story by Andersen.

a california kinda holiday.

the unveiling.

pc - maleekmonroe on deviantART

And oh, my dearest darlings, my darling dears... I am so keenly aware of quite how lessthansuperblyawesome I have been with the blog of late (please refer to 'will you won't you will you won't you, won't you be my door?', ahem.) BUT, do not ever you be afeared, for I am in the midst of crafting a wonderful post for you all tomorrow. AND, R. Coco is about to spread her journalistic wings and branch out into the OUTSIDE WORLD and the world of INTERVIEWS. But -- being that I am, after all, me -- you can bet your bottom dollah that there will be... a twist. Keep your long-lashed lids open, and ready for wonders.

xxo, R. Coco

pretty package giveaway.

will you won't you will you won't you, won't you be my door?

number zero, or, the divine protagonist.

image scanned from my personal tarot deck.

tarot card meanings taken from paranormality.
narrative by me, R. Coco, based on various sources.

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p.s. photo shoot tomorrow! there will be lots and lots and lots of spring florals and formal dresses arriving in the shop over the next couple of weeks, so eyes out for updates. xxo!

we didn't need dialogue... we had FACES.

magical photographs by my latest ohheartbestillohheavenhelpme-love: Eugenio Recuenco

I find the above photographic narrative (because this really is a narrative -- a film in stills, if you will) nothing short of magical. While viewing it, you are transported backwards in time to the real Golden Age of Film, the silent era, the days when Hollywood(land) was where Koreatown is now (I would know, I live in an apartment that once belonged to Mary Pickford!), when Charles Chaplin had the power and clout that the entire Disney industry does now, when -- as Norma Desmond so eloquently put it in Sunset Boulevard -- actors "didn't need dialogue; we had FACES." While viewing the photographs, you're watching Buster Keaton with Theda Bara, Louise Brooks, and Clara Bow in turn. You're seeing overly-stylized sets, which create more of a picture book feel on film than a photographic one. And the fashion... oh the hair and clothing and painted-on makeup!! To die, to die, and wake in a dream where women once again walk around like works of art, and men stroll the streets looking dapper in suits and caps.

Well, on that note, I'm off to go day dream the day away ♥

xxo,

R. Coco