Numenor - Italy

Numenor - Italy

Balmain | Resort 2023

Memories are like playing a game of ‘Telephone.’ Every time you recall an event, your brain distorts it a little more. So, while you may think you have a memory of something that’s happened, you’re actually just remembering the last time you remembered it.

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Billie Eilish by Davit Giorgadze for Highsnobiety December 2022

The Valkyrie's Vigil by Edward Robert Hughes

Following Richard Wagner's romantic reinterpretation of the old myths, Hughes depicts the dreadful Norse war goddess in an ethereal fairy painting: barefoot, clad in a sheer off-the-shoulder gown, and softly lit from above. Her martial aspects are de-emphasized: she tucks her helmet into the crook of her arm and holds her sword by the ricasso (the blunt section just beyond the crossguard). Of the chooser of the warrior slain in battle, of the scavenging wolf and raven, there is no trace.

The Evermore Grimoire: Mythology

Freyja (meaning ‘the Lady’ in Old Norse) was the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, gold, war, sorcery and death in Norse mythology. She was also the leader of the Valkyrie, also known as the ‘Choosers of the Slain’ warrior maidens who rode over battlefields on winged horses, taking the souls of warriors killed in battle to feast in Valhalla. Freyja however claimed half of the warriors for her own hall in Folkvang. She also owned a necklace called Brísingamen, rode a chariot pulled by two cats and was accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and even possessed a cloak of falcon feathers.

artwork by Ina-Kristen Sunset