The Sartorialist often puts up vintage photos, intended as inspiration for fashion of the present moment. This bikini, for example. Amazing.
More than simple fashion shots, these photos are so poignant and arresting, however, because they depict youth and beauty that is necessarily past.
In Defense of Poetry, P.B. Shelley writes
"The social sympathies, or those laws from which, as from its
elements, society results, begin to develop themselves from the moment that two human
beings coexist; the future is contained within the present, as the plant within the seed".
I know, right.
