social sciences

• The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
• Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
• Het volk bestaat niet: Leiderschap en populisme in de mediademocratie by Dick Pels
• Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrigan
• Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normality of Hating Your Body by Courtney Martin
• A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
• Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
• Fantasyland: How America went Haywire by Kurt Andersen

historical events

chine

• mao's mausoleum
• the forbidden city
• the alright wall of china

austria

• vienna state opera
• kunsthistorisches museum, vienna

schweiz

• belle epoque train

france

• cimetière du père-lachaise
• lavender fields in aix
• lac d'annecy; veyrier; take 2
• galimard parfumeurs à grasse

high literature

• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Faust by J.W. von Goethe
• Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Justine by the Marquis de Sade
• The Debutante by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• gone girl
• kill bill vol. 1 + 2
• the virgin suicides
• gone with the wind
• romeo + juliet
• black swan
• helter skelter
• a streetcar named desire
• death becomes her
• showgirls
• perfume: the story of a murderer
• gaslight
• cruel intentions
• dunkirk
• valley of the dolls
• miss sloane
• a simple favour

• chelsea boots (a shade of brown, leather) >got them in black
• riding boots/spanish tassel boots (frye, fairfax & favor explorer, rydale)
• converse all stars (blue, low top)
• black leather pumps (ysl escarpin, matte)
• work pumps (lk bennett sledge-type)
• penny loafers (sebago, bass weejuns or similar)
• pointed ballet flats
• oxfords (black, almond/pointed toe)
• black ankle boots (block heel, matte) >i got plum ones, and black, and suede
• low heels (manolo blahnik bb 50/70mm pumps)
• espradilles
• dicker boots (taupe/tan)
• new balance 574 (burgundy/grey)
• ugg mule slippers > got regular uggs
• doc martens

• dolce and gabbana f/w 06
• d&g f/w 06
• gucci f/w 06
• gucci f/w 09
• gucci f/w 14
• valentino s/s 07
• rochas f/w 06
• ermanno scervino s/s 15
• chanel hc f/w 10
• dior hc s/s 07
• chloe f/w 10
• versace s/s 08

• wayfarers (all black)
  • i got tortoise instead
• trenchcoat (long)
• (tartan) cashmere/wool scarf
• plain black trousers, cropped, cigarette model
• basic black blazer (sharply cut)
• wax coated jeans
• saint james breton top (ecru)
• ll bean fishermans sweater
• wool scarf (plain)
• cashmere jumpers, v- and crewneck (maroon; forest green; cream; navy)
• billowy crisp cotton white blouse (mens ysl off ebay)
• silky blouses
• pencil skirt (black; navy; grey)
• shift dress
• black leather gloves, mid-arm length
• wrap blouses