Dig it : Pre-Raphaelite babes

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I was watching a documentary hosted by Andrew Lloyd Weber, who looks like he could be toad of Toad hall, the documentary was about Pre-Raphaelite painters and it was beautiful. I can’t believe it took me this many years to discover this style, because I can now see this movements influence in everything that’s happening in fashion right now. It’s such an indulgent-teenaged-girls-wet-dream style, reminds me of candles, tarot cards and diaries. Although I can see the tackiness and predictability in it, I dig it.

John Williams Waterhouse, ‘Hylas and the Nymphs’ 1896

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘Lady Lilith’ 1872

Albert Joseph Moore, ‘Dreamers’ 1882

John Everett Millais, ‘Ophelia’ 1852

John Everett Millais, ‘Ophelia’ 1852

John William Waterhouse, ‘Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May’ 1909

John William Waterhouse, ‘The Lady of Shalott’ 1888

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘A Sea Spell’ 1877

John William Godward, ‘Reverie’

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘Venus Verticordia’ 1868

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