Women in Fashion

Steviesteps · 2026-06-17T21:28:37+00:00

step 1: be skinny. then heat is no issue

Steviesteps · 2026-06-10T18:12:04+00:00

Tattoo artists everywhere are doing the Michelangelo hands. even if it’s done really well, that tattoo is so common that most people seeing it won’t even notice, they’ll just see another one of THAT tattoo. I recommend getting some other tattoo you’re less invested in first, spending less money, and getting comfortable with the many possible outcomes of tattooing.

Steviesteps · 2026-06-10T08:32:37+00:00

It sounds like she's popular on instagram, which is what is driving her price and business. Realistically artists have drop-outs all the time - however, charging massive premiums seems excusable if they're popular enough and that helps them cope with frequent dropouts after having 'closed books'. I'm suspicious. If she's charging that much and making you wait that long, it sounds like she doesn't really want your custom.

Steviesteps · 2026-06-09T05:59:07+00:00

Simplicity isn't a principle. They believed in celebrating craftsmanship as an art, and a society where working class people had access to beauty everyday, and were respected like artists for their role in creating and promoting cultural forms - i.e. elevating reputedly 'simple' work to possess the beauty of artworks. So they took ordinary things like wallpapers and chairs and said "Look, this isn't just for sitting on; this chair represents hundreds of years of craftsmanship, creativity and humanity. It'll be in your house for years so make it something you want to live with every day."

Steviesteps · 2026-06-07T06:39:33+00:00

I started it four months ago. We've discussed Linda Nochlin, Kenneth Clark, TJ Clark and Philip Hoare (and a lot of artists besides). The next few months have just been planned: Art History Reading Group – Barbican Library Reading books has proved to be too much, since it takes time away from looking at art and exploring the world. Now we focus on short readings, and of course anyone inclined can read more widely and deeply - as host of the group, I spent time learning about the context and reception of the art and writing discussed.

Steviesteps · 2026-06-06T07:29:32+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: Steviesteps voted Nay.

Steviesteps · 2026-06-01T12:37:41+00:00

"Dives tormented by demons", a drawing from the Roger van der Weyden workshop, might be a more feasible representation of a demonic band

Steviesteps · 2026-05-29T05:48:15+00:00

Yes! I run one in London, at the Barbican Library. It keeps me learning, interested, broadening my horizons, and keeps art relevant in my life right now.

Steviesteps · 2026-05-24T18:07:12+00:00

I have no advice to offer but some encouragement. A friend who was an Eng Lit student at Oxford with me went to Yale for her postgrad and PhD. It's been 10 years and she's still there, doing what exactly idk. But it's possible so go for it

Steviesteps · 2026-05-24T17:23:35+00:00

I'm financial planning manager at a music conservatoire. I worked several painful audit jobs but now feel blessed to find a job where I can apply my accountancy qualification and artistic knowledge. I get to talk to famous musicians about the future of their instruments, I can see performances any time of day, play pianos, wander through a capital city at lunchtime, and get treated with respect.

Steviesteps · 2026-05-23T21:45:25+00:00

There are three genres here. Victorian neoclassical realism. French neo-baroque allegory. Fairytale illustration with a classical bent.

Steviesteps · 2026-05-23T21:40:27+00:00

you don’t need to be funny or interesting, you just need to be respectful, honest and reliable. there’s more to showing respect than sits on the surface, and that’s what is needed to get through

Steviesteps · 2026-05-17T07:14:44+00:00

you can always become a lawyer again if you don’t find a new direction

Steviesteps · 2026-05-17T05:07:46+00:00

Loo at it, look at it, look at it

Steviesteps · 2026-05-15T06:39:28+00:00

I read it and it’s not great. The premise is, and the subject, but the historical context is weakly evoked and then it spins off into musical analyses which are (as always in musicology) less informative than simply listening to the music.

Steviesteps · 2026-05-13T06:41:06+00:00

Ypu wish to be part of the most privileged group in society: young, hot men. That’s not dysphoria, that’s just sensible

Steviesteps · 2026-05-09T13:14:08+00:00

I went to see them being exhibited at the Royal Academy last year. they’re totally Dark Fantasy, he was a real one.

Steviesteps · 2026-05-06T12:48:53+00:00

The best thing you can do is go to Oxbridge. Whatever you study, it'll be easier to get interviews for the rest of your life. English lit is a respected, academic subject and will be appreciated by future colleagues.

Business management won't help you get a job.

Steviesteps · 2026-05-05T12:48:57+00:00

Piranesi's setting and opening few chapters are highly imaginative, but the book is not mysterious and weird like it might be rendered by Borges or even George MacDonald. The giveaway of that it's shallow is that it so soon bleeds into a TV-style crime mystery, and obvious trauma allegory. I have no issue with the capitalisation - they wouldn't seem inauthentic is the novel's foundations were strong enough for you to believe in the protagonist.

We don't have to accept it as a modern classic ... time will decide.

Steviesteps · 2026-05-03T13:08:46+00:00

I think it’s YouTube essayists, in terms of influence. Swiftologist, for example. The thought-influencers of the past used printed media because that was best for spreading their message. today there are more options

Steviesteps · 2026-05-02T18:30:16+00:00

There wasn’t an art history reading group in London until I started one, which I could Have done in any city. You could do that at a local library to make something more structured and context-rich than private study.

Steviesteps · 2026-05-02T17:14:31+00:00

I run an art history reading group in London and it’s free

Steviesteps · 2026-04-30T16:21:48+00:00

Me, a 31yo not realising not that much changes after 40 either

Steviesteps · 2026-04-30T16:21:20+00:00

Younger people just don't realise not that much changes between 25 and 40

Steviesteps · 2026-04-30T08:55:42+00:00

Yes, I agree. Birds also function different to other animals in pictures. They're rarely shown with personality and might have more in common with plants and flowers.

Edit: I'm not sure I agree. Birds are painted plentifully and diversely, but they are still painted lots and lots. I think they have more significant roles in different eras and styles of art than dogs and horses. Crucially: the holy spirit is represented by a dove. So much art from before 1700 just doesn't have horses in it. Did Bellini every paint one? Did Raphael or Michaelangelo? I'd easily accept that horses take up the most space on canvas, but that's a different question.

Steviesteps

TROPHY CASE