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Showing posts with label Bendels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bendels. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
More dance tales for the balletomanes out there...In London I went to see the Diaghilev exhibit at the V&A.
Room after room of sumptuous costumes, stage sets, posters, playbills, videos, background music and backstage tales from the golden age of Les Ballet Russes (1909-1929)...
It's easy to imagine yourself twirling like a czar, sporting a mink hat
Illustrations and costume design drawings from Russian Leon Bakst...
Reflect the lush aspects of these ballets...
Loaded with Russian embroidary...
You can watch old film of Nijinsky's revolutionary Fire Dance.
With the accompanying original costumes and drawings. Plus backstage details of the love affair between Nijinsky and Sergei Diaghilev. Until Les Ballets Russes went off to Argentina, where Nijinsky eloped with a ballerina, causing immediate dismissal from the company. Diaghilev went off on a Bachanalian rage in Sicly...
Stage backdrops and model theaters leave you ready to forage for treasures in the V&A giftshop...
Deck yourself out head to toe...
In Russian garb...
Including Diaghilev's famous black top hat...
While munching faux 'caviar' chocolate beans...
Balletomanes will find plenty of books to buy on their favorite subject...
Why oh why didn't I buy this piano bracelet for all of 5 pounds?
Surprisingly there was no Russian fare to eat in the V&A's cafe, but the fare is excellent English traditional food
With luscious jams up the whazoo at no extra cost!
Two little British Red Riding Hoods being taken to the exhibit...
Monday, December 6, 2010
Bendels choose not to go with The Black Swan for their Xmas window theme...hmmm
Sugar plums and... 
The dear old Nutcracker Suite to the rescue.
Very old fashioned and delightful it is too...
Inside white swan-like ballerinas ride ostriches...
Wearing woolen leggings (they were formerly ballerinas of course...)
A ballerina climbs a ladder to turn on the lights...
Multi-ballerinas twirl from the ceiling.What more could you ask for?
Whoops!
Whoops! One naughty ballerina takes off her red shoes and goes to bed with the nutcracker...doodly...doodly..do
Macaron Ribbons, watercolor, 9" x 11"
Macaron Ribbons, watercolor, 9" x 11"
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Is this you pre-holiday...?
Did you do a lot of shopping online like this Bendel girl?
Did you get snowed on while shopping?
712 ways to lead a charmed life...I'll take it!
Nothing wrong with being a Bendel girl...
Some of you must have ventured out and shopped till you dropped. Did you?
And the endless lists...aieeeeeeeeee
There's a good reason New Years Eve rolls around so soon after all that shopping...
Your chance to kick up your heels...
And drain the bubbly...
Load up on glitz and the bling for New Years Eve!
The Bendels piggie bank can wait just a bit longer...
A non-shopping poster at Bendels...
That New York hot dog awaits your Champers!BONJOUR PB SHOPPERS!
You survived.
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