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Cover for the Wattpad story <n>Viraag - Jegulus (One-shot)</n> by <n>Bianca</n>.

An <n>Armani Jeans 90s Deformation Long Coat</n>.

Stills from <n>Wong Kar-wai</n>'s 2000 film <n>In the Mood for Love</n> with <n>Maggie Cheung</n> and <n>Tony Leung Chiu-wai</n>.

AI-generated artwork by <n>SOULIMAN GHAZI</n>.

<n>Levitating Man</n> (1983) by <n>Ruth Thorne-Thomsen</n>.

A still from the 1984 film <n>Paris, Texas</n> by director <n>Wim Wenders</n>.

Concept photo for <n>aespa</n>'s <n>My World</n> with <n>Winter</n> and <n>Karina</n>, styled after <n>Wong Kar Wai</n>'s <n>Fallen Angels</n>.

Musician <n>Björk</n> photographed by <n>Nobuyoshi Araki</n> for her 1996 album, <n>Telegram</n>.

@scantron.m on Instagram: “Lehman Sisters would be an amazing drag duo”

A still from <n>Andrei Tarkovsky</n>'s 1979 film <n>Stalker</n>, featuring actor <n>Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy</n>.

Nocturnal urban labyrinth. Music by <n>Aaron Hibell</n>.

Behind the scenes of <n>Wong Kar-wai</n>'s <n>In the Mood for Love</n> (2000) with <n>Tony Leung Chiu-wai</n> and <n>Maggie Cheung</n>.

<n>Christian Bale</n> as <n>Patrick Bateman</n> in <n>American Psycho</n> (2000), directed by <n>Mary Harron</n>.

A still of <n>Michelle Reis</n> in <n>Fallen Angels</n> (1995), directed by <n>Wong Kar-wai</n>.

A graphic composition featuring a <n>Gardenia</n> flower.

A still from <n>Ang Lee</n>'s 2007 film <n>Lust, Caution</n>, featuring actors <n>Tang Wei</n> and <n>Tony Leung Chiu-wai</n>.

The AI artwork <n>The Man Within 1-6</n>.

<n>Bayan Ali</n> photographed by <n>Niccolo Bonfadini</n> in Brescia, Italy.

A detail from <n>Edwin Austin Abbey</n>'s <n>Pre-Raphaelite</n> painting, <n>King Lear, Act I, Scene I</n> (1898).

'<n>Seeing Red</n>' by photographer <n>Lindsay Adler</n> featuring model <n>Adelina Tereshchenkova</n>.

<n>Gong Li</n> as <n>Hatsumomo</n> in the 2005 film <n>Memoirs of a Geisha</n>.

<n>Orchids</n> by <n>Irving Penn</n> for <n>Vogue</n>, published in December 1970.