"Bad boys have never been my thing, but damaged outsiders are a definite weakness."

Elle Fanning: Rodarte's Muse on Nowness.com.

Check out this kid. She's like this gorgeous little summer peach, and apparently Rodarte's latest muse. In this film you'll see Todd Cole's new collaboration with Rodarte called The Curve of Forgotten Things. Fanning models design duo Kate and Laura Mulleavy's spring 2011 collection. To me, watching this reminded me of watching Miss Elle Fanning's latest film, Somewhere. Not a whole lot happens and a lot of silence ensues, yet it is in my opinion, artistically brilliant.

Speaking of muses. I wonder what it would be like to be a "muse." I can't imagine the job entails a whole lot, other than just being yourself and living your life, which I am fairly confident I'm capable of doing. When I think of muses the following come to mind:

• Yoko Ono, muse to John Lennon
• Zelda Fitzgerald, Author, Muse to Scott Fitzgerald
• Sara Lowndes, Bob Dylan's most influential muse
• Edie Sedgwick, muse to Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol
• Loulou de la Falaise, Designer, Muse to Yves Saint Laurent
• Dora Maar, Writer, Muse to Picasso

Most of these ladies went on to do amazing things independently, but I don't think they would have been nearly as successful had they not been the inspiration for the likes of Fitzgerald and Dylan.

This also made me wonder why you don't hear of a man being a woman's muse, but then I remembered the word muse derives from Greek mythology and pertains to the 9 sister goddesses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, each of whom was regarded as protectress of a different art or science. (Little history lesson for ya)

By the way, you should totally check out this site. I'm hooked.

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