La Couture est Dans le Pré

French Vogue Oct 2007
Photographer Patrick Demarchelier
Editor: Carine Roitfeld
Model: Natasha Poly
Hair: Luigi Murenu, Makeup: Tom Pecheux

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Like my mother and my Grandpa (a Cattle farmer) before me, I have an enormous admiration for and fascination with cattle. I Especially adore Jersey cows for their rich creamy caramel soft gradient hides, and encircled beautiful eyes and long lashes. Needless to say I really appreciate Demarchelier's propensity to shoot couture editorials with farm animals!

Nguni Cattle

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RGB - Le metamorfosi

An installation for Milan Design Week 2010 - by the Italian designers known as Carnovsky.

Intending to 'explore both the real and the fantastic, the true and the verisimilar in the way medieval bestiaries did' The imagery in the wallpaper are engravings from 'natural history’s great European texts from between the XVI Century and the XVIII Century. Including Aldrovandi, Ruysch, Linneus and Bonnaterre.'

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Animals and War

Members of the 2/48th Battalion, 9th Australian Division, with a pet dog, after evacuation from Tobruk, Egypt on the ship Kingston. 1941

Pte. D.W. Jones of Carlton N.S.W. and "C" company the 2/33 battalion. One of the men responsible for running the donkey team supply column to the scattered units in Khiam, 1941

'Ferdie', the Pygmy Flying Phalanger, is on active service with a famous RAAF Spitfire squadron in Morotai. He belongs to Flying Officer (FO) Robert Addison of Elwood, Vic, who brought him from Bathurst Island. 'Ferdie' spent a wild youth, but now is a reformed character. When he reached larrikin stage, he acquired a taste for beer and could drink a long tablespoon with any squirrel, but at aerobatics, his judgment went to pieces after twenty minutes intermittent drinking, he even fell into a full glass of beer. After that not a drop of liquor passed his lips. As one of the squadron's mascots, the teetotal possum met with a lot of competition. Among his rivals were fifteen dogs, a cat, another possum and a rooster.

Staff Sergeant Major Morgan and dog, and Private Francis Edmund Bilton, 5th Battalion. Note the cat curled up asleep in the corner. Circa 1915

Aboard HMAS Sydney are two ships mascots who don't agree: Able Seaman J. T. Walker with his pup "Shrapnel" and Able Seaman Gamble with his cat "Salvo", 1940.

The feline mascot of the light cruiser HMAS Encounter, peering from the muzzle of a 6 inch gun. WWI

Sergeant Eric Campbell Lawther, of Hurlstone Park, NSW, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment), says goodbye to veteran mine dog, Dean, in Korea, 1956.

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the 'Supreme Cat Show' in Birmingham 2010

Apparently 'one of the biggest events in Europe, which is attended by 1,196 cats of different breeds.'












He who is named 'Ginger Casanova'

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