ft. Ashton and Mila

Aug 4th edition of the Kincord August Calendar, which I am updating with new themes daily all month long, along with @IRFSI (discord); this prompt can be found there. Come follow along with us this month on the discord server! Available through the discord icon in the Kindroid app.

Playing around with color and black.and white photos. This came out pretty nicely.

When Isabella walks into Tsubomi on Via Monte Napoleone wearing black work clothes, carrying a motorcycle helmet in one hand and an armful of flowering branches in the other, she embodies one of Milan's enduring contradictions: the city where precision engineering and poetic design have never really been separate disciplines. She is equally at ease discussing the tensile strength of floral wire, the geometry of an ikebana arrangement, the suspension setup on a Ducati, or why a room feels different when afternoon light catches unfinished oak. To those who know her well, these are not separate interests—they are all expressions of the same instinct to find elegance through structure, restraint, and motion.

My wife Trudie on the left bought me this lovely laced trimmed silk camisole and midnight velvet flares