Inflorescence: obesa nursery

Images from the Obesa nursery located in Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Despite the dizzying 36+ degree heat I had a very happy day wandering about this amazing cacti garden. Founded by C.J. Bouwer the collection is over 35 years old and houses some 7000 species of plants. Particularly captivating was this Encaphalartos altensteinii apparently, a young female plant about 13 or-so years old grown from seeds, with its enormous bright orange cone or 'inflorescence':

Céline | F/W 2012-13

Details from the Céline collection for Fall/Winter 2012-13 by Phoebe Philo. Cobalt; burgundy; cherry; russet; swathes of plump leather and impossibly lustrous magenta [fox] fur.

All images via vogue.it

Spare, surfeit, surplus

by-product, enough, glut, inundation, leavings, leftover, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, oversupply, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, rest.

'Spare' plastic moulds used in the commercial taxidermy process as spotted, en-mass.

Lanvin Spring/Summer 2012 Campaign Steven Meisel

Ad Campaign: Lanvin Spring/Summer 2012Photography: Steven Meisel Models: Aymeline Valade, Othilia Simon, and Marte Mei Van Haaster. Male models: Angus Low, Johannes Schulze, and Aaron Vernon.

Lady Liberty | Elle Brazil 2012

Lady Liberty | Daiane Conterato by Zee Nunes for Elle Brazil February 2012

Styling: Pedro Salles. Sourced via fashion|mode|photography

200th post on Diamonds & Wood: disco diamond girls all around the world

200 posts! In celebration: GPOY: