Christmas Spirit on Magazines Covers

Harper’s Bazaar

Vogue

Seventeen

Batman by DC Comics

Vanity Fair

Esquire

Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ)

Jet

Rolling Stone

May 27

Under the Charm of Scheherazade

The mystery never ends, it cannot end. That´s why it is called a mystery, it cannot be known ever. It will never become knowledge, that´s why it is called a mystery; something in it is eternally elusive. And that´s the whole joy of life. The great splendor of life is that it keeps you eternally engaged, searching, exploring. Life is exploration, life is adventure.

The legendary Persian Queen Scheherazade is a gorgeous example of this wonderful, intelligent and creative mystery called life. Her amazing story featured in One Thousand and One Nights (هزارافسانه), is an inspiration to generations of story tellers, movies makers, musicians, painters and poets. It will remain so, forever and ever and ever.

Scheherazade (شهرزاد‎) is a female name meaning "of noble lineage" in old Persian, or "born in the city" in modern Persian.

Model wearing Schiaparelli’s asymmetrical evening dress at Schéhérazade club, Paris

Photo taken at Schéhérazade club by Roger Schall, 1940

Art Nouveau poster

Edmund Dulac

Virginia Frances Sterett

Umberto Brunelleschi

Erté

Léon Bakst

Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein in ballet adaptation of Sheherazade premiered on June 4, 1910, at the Opéra Garnier in Paris by the Ballets Russes. The choreography for the ballet was by Michel Fokine and the libretto was from Fokine and Léon Bakst, who also designed sets and costumes

Nijinsky

Nijinsky by Georges Lepape

Sleeve design for Rimsky Korsakov’s symphonic suite recorded by The Philadelphia Orchestra. Phillips

Nijinsky in the role of the negro slave in the ballet Sherezade by Rimski Korsakov, George Barbier

George Barbier

Paul Mak

John Austen

Alberto Vargas

José Segrelles

Sophie Anderson

Richard Corben

Franz Helbing

Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter

Elizabeth Taylor in disguise

Directed by Walter Reisch

J. Jones

Willy Pogany

René Magritte

Apr 6

The Peacock Enthroned

Earthquake Damage. Lily Cole photographed by Tim Walker in Whadwhan Palace, Gujarat (India), 2005

La Grande Odalisque, 1814, Jean AugusteDominique Ingres

The Peacock Room, 1876-7, James McNeill Whistler

The Peacock Throne is the most notable piece of furniture of the Moorish Kiosk, a building located at Linderhoff Palace in Bavaria, Germany. It’s the smallest of the three palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria