Erotic Hats

I happen to have a friend who is a sex-inspirer...She is also a milliner. Her name is Marika Smith, and right now she has a few of her hats exhibited in the basement club at Berns in Stockholm. This is also where the boudoir boutique Pom Pom Parlour is based. Pom Pom Parlour is a high class erotic boutique, which offers it's customers everything from very stylish clothes and shoes, to lingerie, whips, sex toys, and books, to celebrate sexuality and femininity. So together with Pom Pom, Miss Smith created her exhibition - of not any hats - but erotic hats!

I had been invited to the opening night, and since it was all about hats, I put on a hat made by Magdalena Kellerman. It contains Mildred - a cousin to Milfred. Or well...At least part of her...

When I arrived I was greeted by Marika herself, pictured above. And I was glad to see most of the guests were wearing hats! 

Marika isn't just good at sex and hats, she is also a master when it comes to making things that makes you gain weight...So for this occasion she had created a whole chocolate buffet!!! But now to some of her hats that were on display! They all had erotic themes...

This one is decorated with a pair of mini handcuffs. Here resting on the book Sins, which is Pom Pom Parlour's own collection of erotic novels. I happen to own that one, and I can highly recommend it...

This hat has been decorated with "something" white. And it ain't snow...

This one has an old, lesbian print on it. Grrrr...

Here is my favorite in the exhibition! I could probably go to a very fancy party in this one, and get compliments on my old-style pretty hat. BUT! If you actually look at it, you can see that it is formed as a vagina - complete with a perl-clit! Haha! Love it!

Of course I had too take a peek at Pom Pom Parlour too! One thing I have spent a lot of money on in that boutique is shoes by one of my favorite shoe designers - Minna Parikka! I sort of like these ones...

...But I love this pair of bunny shoes! There weren't any left in my size though. Thank God...

Other fun things at Pom Pom were, for example, these penis-panties....

...This lovely set, that I happen to want...

...And all kinds of books. Here accompanied by my drink.

There was also an elephant...

Photo: Mrs Murphy

Among all the guests I met the always fabulous Mrs Murphy! She had brought her own photographer, and dragged me into a very impromptu, but also very interesting photo shoot...

The evening then ended with wine upstairs in Bern's lovely, crystal chandelier-hung main room, together with two of my friends - one Italian, and one French. When you hang out with people from those countries, sex jokes are made about every second minute. Let's just say I had a really good time...

La Vie Parisienne

La Vie Parisienne was a French weekly magazine, founded in 1863. At first it was meant to be a guide to the privileged social and artistic life in Paris, but it soon evolved into a slightly risqué publication, with illustrations of scantly clad women covering the pages. In a few neighboring countries - like Belgium - it was banned, but in reality it was more of a high class humor magazine which reputation got a bit out of hand...

The illustrations were mostly very tastefully made, in the Art Nouveau style, by artists such as Georges Barbier, Chéri Hérouard, Umberto Brunelleschi, Fabien Fabiano, and Léo Fontan. These pictures reflected the aesthetics and values of the time, and this together with the intellectual wit and satire of the texts published in the magazine proved a success!

Here are some of these lovely - "horrible" - illustrations:

The text says "The wind is a good couturier".

The text reads: "After the husband's train has left".

Umberto Brunelleschi

My favorit flower is the Lily of the Valley. One of my favorite followers on Twitter is Lily of Opulence (A Perfumed Pearl). A while ago she posted some pictures of the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi. I immediately fell for the colors and the art nouveau style of his work.

Umberto Brunelleschi (1879 - 1949) was born in Italy, but moved to France in 1900, where he became a printer, book illustrator, and set and costume designer. He contributed to several French fashion magazines, such as Journal des Dames et des Modes, Gazette du Bon Ton, and Les Feuilles d'Art. Between the two world wars he worked on set and costume designs for several theaters, including Folies Bergère in Paris, the Roxy Theatre in New York, and La Scala in Milan. Some of the books he illustrated are Candide (Voltaire), Contes du temps jadis (Charles Perrault), and Les Masques et les Personnages de la Comedie Italienne. Towards the end of his life he also did a number of erotica illustrations. Prepare for lots of pictures!