I always start any new project off with a mood board, so we went into the mood board phase of, how bold do we want it to be?
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Be right back, we've got a mood board to fill.
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For those unfamiliar, Tumblr is basically a virtual mood board.
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You can check out Pinterest's full spring mood board here.
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Indeed, the vast majority of the mood board features Rihanna.
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Or, of course, the mood board of your typical New Yorker.
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I like to make a vision board and a mood board.
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Then, I made a mood board of different photos of Gwen.
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It wasn't too sweet or sugary, which was another mood board option.
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"I start with a color palette and a mood board," she says.
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Some people start decorating their home with a mood board of options.
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I don't think Azzedine would even know what a mood board is.
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So my mood board had different yarn and fuzzy fabric textures on it.
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Grande's stylist has come to her defense, saying he created the mood board
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Ahead, find the six most-pinned highlighters on the mood board site right now.
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I feel like the mood board process paved the way to where we went.
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I knew both would include chocolate, based on my wordle and mood-board planning.
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The Gucci blazer you've had on a mood board since the Spring '12 show?
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Ahead, we rounded up a few festival-approved styles to save to your mood board.
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The mood board in the studio reveals that Outlier's color palette tends toward cyberpunk noir.
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"MPB: "To me, Instagram is a kind of creative mood board, kind of like Tumblr.
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It was an early reference on my mood board for Nocturnal Animals' West Texas storyline.
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"Here come dat boi, ready to be pinned to your mood board," if you will.
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That done, Lee created a "mood board" so we'd see how different products look together.
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If you're interested in adopting the aesthetic yourself, consider the slideshow ahead as your mood board.
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Check out our mood board of the disparate places from which the show's creators drew inspiration.
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It was the signature look she was known for and a staple on every hairstylist's mood board.
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For inspiration on how to pull it all together, check out the site's editorials and mood board.
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Night Out Photos of Gillian Anderson occupied a special place on Gabriela Hearst's spring fashion mood board.
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"Instead of using our photos on your mood board, let us be the ones doing the work."
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I'm also obsessed with Pinterest and use it as a mood board for every part of my life.
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In the process, he accidentally captured a wedding shot that belongs on every "Wedding Goals" Pinterest mood board.
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Catherine put together a mood board of images for the album and that made it so much easier.
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On her mood board is an image of Fermat's spiral, the growth pattern seen in sunflowers and cabbages.
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Maybe use it as a mood board, or get a t-shirt made out of your favorite word.
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The humble mood board-loving social network has seen its price increase by a very nice 69 percent.
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In a meeting with them, I'm looking at their mood board to see what they have in mind.
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There's no mood board, the traditional visual tool for a designer to map out a collection's supposed genesis.
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At home, Kim told us, there's a "mood board" that she and Kanye play with all the time.
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Inspired by its unexpected color, texture, and geometry, Eichenbaum wanted the photo to read like an architectural mood board.
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Other elements of his oeuvre are signified by a mood board of crows, or plastic bins of artistic supplies.
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The caption notes that 72 percent of the images in the mood board "features black women as a reference."
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Naturally eclectic and an inspired collagist, Mr. Van Noten hardly requires a mood board to explain his working process.
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A mood board sat above a makeshift office desk, plastered with pictures of models in his typically elongated garments.
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For most artists, it's almost become a mood board to have on your phone so you can get inspired.
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You know what we wrote on the mood board in the design studio as our takeaway for this collection?
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So: references to the 1930s and Edward Steichen's "Family of Man" (that's what was on Mr. Piccioli's mood board).
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His collections are rarely bound to references pinned to a mood board; instead, he draws on his own memories.
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Someone went ahead and even made a legit mood board for this dream project, and it's a straight-up masterpiece.
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He pitched them on Slab City; by coincidence or serendipity, photos from the site had been on their mood board.
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I said, "I want to create a mood board [for the collection]," which is similar to how I create clothing.
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Because Splash did so well generating the first Jake Gyllenhaal mood board I decided to try something a little trickier.
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Roach's "mood board" included multiple designs by Yeha Leung, who creates made-to-order bondagewear under the brand name Creepyyeha.
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When it came time to talk about our heroine Lara Jean's aesthetic, I made a mood board for the producers.
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And with her recent wave of reds, burgundies and browns, she's all the imagery our fall lip color mood board needs.
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The first inclination is to tack these findings on to the grayscale mood board of challenges that still face successful women.
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Law Roach, the celebrity stylist and Image Architect, created a "mood board" that Versace used for inspiration when designing Grande's outfits.
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Instead, think of the film as a mood board, capturing the horror-movie VHS dread that inspires Tesfaye's general sonic outlook.
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And I got there and I see all my Instagram photos up on the mood board, and I was like, hmm.
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By Design Over 15 years, Sean McNanney has transformed his small railroad apartment in Brooklyn into a life-size mood board.
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Luckily, the new year is bringing with it a whole mood board of style inspiration to fit a range of aesthetics.
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But before you run off to make a mood board of embroidered tattoos, there are a few things you need to know.
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Consider this 60-second travel video the ultimate mood board for your Hungarian vacation, and scroll on for notes on each spot.
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So, the next time you find yourself in a salon with a mood board of the year's raddest haircuts, don't forget Hadid.
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The mood board for the show is like Wes Anderson run through a Billy Wilder filter, or Tim Burton channeling Douglas Sirk.
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There was guy who looked like he picked out his outfit with help from a mood board comprised of Jaden Smith photographs.
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No two Log Cabin scents smell alike — they invoke more of a mood board (chilly, smoky, ponderous) than a cohesive olfactory profile.
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Near her kitchen, above a large mood board, is a framed, multipanel drawing in blue ink of about three dozen young schoolgirls.
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Lucky for us, emulating her look just got way easier than throwing together a Pinterest mood board of step-and-repeat shots.
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There, Edgar Allan Poe and Carl Jung were on his mood board and layers — of fabric and understanding — were on the table.
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The supermodel just stepped out with a fresh 'do, and it's already at the center of our 2020 hair inspiration mood board.
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But, if nothing else, turn your grid into a mood board for yourself, and use it as a source of inspiration throughout 2017.
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WATCH THIS: Step Inside a $20 Million House Flip Sure I can make a 2D mood board and fill it with complimentary pieces.
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It's a mood board he managed to sum up in one word, one that's supposed to be synonymous with Calvin Klein, too: freedom.
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Their stretch, silhouette, and nod to athleticism help me achieve the urban-après-ski mood board that I compile for myself every December.
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Grande's stylist Law Roach, who refers to himself as an Image Architect, later confirmed that he created the mood board and defended Grande.
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They began by showing a mood board they had put together, based on some visual references that Rogen had provided over the phone.
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In one photo, torn pictures of flowers collage together like a visual mood board; in others, formal, double-exposed sunflowers reference Van Gogh.
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Luckily, we've created a mood board of sorts, to help you nail a costume that will make anyone who's ever done Jazzercise proud.
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Later, Norvina made more public comments on Twitter, where she shared a 'mood board,' or collection of inspirational images, that she says she used to conceptualize her photoshoot"I'm a little late to the controversy in my comments so let me just add my mood board here that was used to create the current campaign look, which I absolutely love," Norvina wrote.
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You're also able to rate individual pieces in the mood board so your designer knows what exactly in the room you love or hate.
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If you have more time, you can represent the elements of your protest, like the location, method or symbols, by creating a mood board.
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On her mood board, displayed in a preview, were pictures of a navy Dior gown from 1947 and Nina Simone's "Little Girl Blue" album.
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"Looking at them now, I like to think that perhaps someday these shots might also form part of some future designer's mood board," he said.
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I should pin this to my mood board: Stop stressing over shitty people And of course there's my favorite, this tweet: ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ fuck you ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
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Olsson says it is the culmination of years spent creating and collecting beats and images like a visual and auditory mood board for his music.
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Images of schoolgirls in the cult movies "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "The Falling" are pinned on her mood board, alongside Pina Bausch theater sets.
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For a start, they look like they've been ripped from the mood board for a Shane Meadows film, but dragged backwards through Topman en route.
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In his home office, there's a mood board on which he's pinned sketches for his latest project, to be shown at Design Miami in December.
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But the latest must-know from Japan is not just something to stick on a mood board or encourage you to toss away gendered dressing norms.
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Because, even if you can't make it to the Windy City to see the victory lap, is an excuse even necessary for a Cher mood board?
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But if you're observant (or sober) enough to find it, there is something akin to a mood board hidden toward the back corner of the installation.
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Aura mapping, photos of Padaung people with brass neck coils and Cher in a pink silk turban all featured on Noor Fares's mood board this season.
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To calibrate his creative process, the artist often uses a mood board to organize his inspirations and concepts, as well as hand-drawing in the preliminary stages.
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And the newest nail-art trend that's edging its way onto our summer mood board is undeniably bizarre, but low-key adorable: eggs, served sunny-side up.
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So make thee a mood board (or scrapbook, or Pinterest board) ASAP so that both you and your stylist are completely clear on the style you want.
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Get Famous adds a Pinterest-like style mood board where Sims can connect style and inspirational images in a way Rodiek compares to a police detective board.
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With my newfound duties as one of his handpicked cultural curators, I simply can't take up precious space in Drake's internal mood board with trash like this.
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And yet here, more than a year before Destiny launched, we see a "mood board" from the game's pre-production days that maps out five alien races.
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A mood board is plastered with inspirational images: Chloë Sevigny with bleached eyebrows from "Gummo," vintage Stephen Sprouse campaigns and Polaroids of Bovan modeling his own collection.
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The mood board that inspired her Sweetener World Tour outfits, which were designed by Versace, largely featured images of Rihanna and lingerie looks by designer Yeha Leung.
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Sitting in the studio in Los Angeles, Mr. Sivan pulled up a Spotify playlist on his phone, a sonic mood board: Sky Ferreira, Drake and the Replacements.
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The playlist's production—a mood board of 80s dance, flutes galore, and horror film-esque keys—is dominated by people from the city and its surrounding suburbs.
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An "aesthetic," in this setting, is usually a set of images, objects, and words that, in sum, create a mood board intended to define a sign's overall vibe.
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For free, you can shoot a quick design question to a designer via chat or email a store and get a free mood board and shoppable product list.
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Diet Prada also accused Grande of "appropriating black aesthetics" because a majority of the images on the mood board "features black women as a reference," most notably Rihanna.
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If this mood-board displays shades of Louie, another half-hour comedy on FX, it's because Louis C.K. is one of the show's executive producers and co-creators.
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I also had a picture in my mood board of a tennis court that looked just like the one we got, and the sun just made it look perfect.
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I did a mood board on Pinterest with pictures of cool pregnant women like Blake Lively and Natalia Vodianova, and that gave me a lot of inspiration fashion-wise.
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All of Verde's ingredients came from the farmer's market, so Goût used his virtual mood board to create a look that "conveyed that sense of the natural," he says.
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His walls were covered in books, and he was tearing pages out of them and making a mood board with a glue stick (still in the leather gloves, obviously).
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"When Christian Classen, fashion director for the tour, gave us the mood board for Selena's world tour, it was moody for sure," the designers behind Monse said in a statement.
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"from the words of Kim K ur not on my mood board but i did get my inspo off Pinterest 🤷🏻♀️," Jenner wrote as she referenced older sister Kim Kardashian West.
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Referncing her older sister, Kim Kardashian West, Stormi's mom wrote, "From the words of Kim K ur not on my mood board but i did get my inspo off Pinterest 🤷🏻♀️."
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Once they committed to the Slytherin idea, they created a mood board and called in local vendors from the Houston area to make the dream come to life for the photoshoot.
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App users can select several colors as their palette, and the app will then generate classic and modern artwork that conforms to the palette — creating a digital mood board of sorts.
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Their similarities to some of Leung's designs began to garner attention after Diet Prada, a fashion watchdog account on Instagram, posted a slideshow of images labeled "Sweetener Mood Board" on Friday.
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Sam told me I was on a mood board he made for Rue, and I didn't believe him because I felt like there's no way he's seen anything that I've done.
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That female sensibility is the magic pixie dust that makes every Coppola movie feel like it reflects my own average experience, while also projecting my mood board aspirations onto a big screen.
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But that is what Clare Waight Keller, creative director of Chloé, did, quoting Anne-France Dautheville on her invitation and papering her mood board with photographs of the adventurer on a bike.
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To combine the world of the metaphysical with style, crystals will be curated by "season," complete with a mood board and soundboard to clearly convey the intention and theme of each collection.
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"The funny process of me making music is that I have 10 or 11 titles sitting on my computer as I record, plus a mood board of images for inspiration," he said.
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In Pauline Boty's 1964 painting "It's a Man's World I," archival images of famous men — Elvis, Einstein, Lenin — appear in a grid, as if on a mood board dedicated to male power.
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He profiles five creators who embody the many facets of the movement, including Bloody Osiris, a stylist and mood-board inspiration, and Brick and Du of Bstroy, post-street-wear avant-gardists.
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Sadly, we can't confirm the 18-year-old used her mother's signature style from the '90s as her haircut mood board, as much as we can see it playing out in our heads.
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Erika Shumate, one of the brand's founders, explains that her and her partner simply provide each perfumer with a mood board — or even a song — and let them create whatever they're inspired to.
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"from the words of Kim K ur not on my mood board but i did get my inspo off Pinterest 🤷🏻♀️," Jenner wrote as she referenced older sister Kim Kardashian West's wise words.
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Phillippe is also not one to post a lot of selfies, as you can see from her Instagram feed, which acts more like an inspirational mood board than a collection of duck faces.
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After what seems like an eternity of every news headline reading like an extract from Skeletor's mood board, the world objectively became a better place last Friday when Giggs' new record Landlord dropped.
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When Alvvays teased their long-awaited sophomore record, Antisocialites, with an illustrative gif and sound snippet, among the collected images, which look a lot like a mood board, was the Hermit tarot card.
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Something about that South Korean group spoke to Osorio, and he has in the past few months held it up as a blueprint, a human mood board of sorts, for his own team.
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The makeup artist Hannah Murray described the look as a "club kid who's trying to recreate the 1960s," and pinned Karlheinz Weinberger's black-and-white Rebel Youth photographs to her mood board for inspiration.
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If I had to design a mood board around this week's episode of The Bachelor I would probably just glue a bunch of broken glass and dried-out limes to a Blue Valentine poster.
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In a response screen grabbed by PEOPLE, Jenner said: "From the words of Kim K ur not on my mood board but i did get my inspo off Pinterest," accompanied by a shrug emoji.
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By the time he returned home to Tokyo, a mood board was already in the works for "Sephirothic Flower: Diving Into the Unknown," an oceanic floral expedition set thousands of feet below sea level.
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She attributed the shift in direction to the carefree spirit of the '60s, and said that she had photos of icons like Penelope Tree and Marisa Berenson tacked to her mood board for inspiration.
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In 2016, I saw that "ghetto" was being praised on the covers of magazines and on everyone's mood board which is where the inspiration for my collection, "My Love To Our Culture" stems from.
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Under the direction of senior fashion student, Siena DeFranco, Team 3 begins assembling a mood board — a Pinterest-esque collection of photographs and aesthetic themes that will serve as inspiration — from a stack of images.
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I scroll through Pinterest for a while — I'm someone who still uses Pinterest as a mood board for pretty much everything in my life — and am inspired to buy a beginner's kit for cross-stitching.
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" According to People, Scott's mood board for the project, "evoked emotions of pleasure, freedom and sensuality, juxtaposed with innocence, an ode to their love, and the beauty of Kylie being captured through her lover's perspective.
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It's funny, because we always have a mood board of what we want – an idea, a summary of how things will go – but on the day of the shoot, things come up, and it will change.
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So when she told me she'd just woken up from a nap before our phone call, Ravyn's "dreamscape" aesthetic felt less like a mood board and more like a cornerstone of her development as an artist.
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Customers simply pick a collection, Made Renovation then puts together a "mood board" of materials from that collection, sends out a 3D rendering of what to expect, then goes into build mode with its GC partners.
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Everybody's favorite First Daughters were recently spotted vacationing in France with their parents, President Barack Obama and Forever First Lady Michelle Obama, and the sisters were rocking looks that we've already added to our summertime mood board.
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But while Ms. Hearst name-checked strong women as inspiration backstage, and had Athena, Kurdish freedom fighters and Josephine Baker (in her war days) on her mood board, the effect was one of gentle suggestion; nudge-nudge.
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"I never sit down and think about it, but, somehow, there will always be an artistic reference on my mood board," Ms. Niarchos said, referring to the inspirational images she collects at the start of her design process.
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Ahead, the inspirational mood board to get you hyped for what's to come, along with a foolproof guide to the most worth-it makeup to buy with the holiday cash about to burn a hole in your wallet.
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This is your chance to show off a cool look that might get you on a street style blog or even on an Urban Outfitters mood board, not to mention help you connect with other hip influencers from around the country.
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In the mood board phase, we went through a few revisions and landed in a place that felt warm, that felt sunny and California and also had a sexy vibe to it as well, and just felt like this confident woman.
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If you're a visual person, make a mood board on Pinterest; if you're skilled at drawing, sketch it out in an app like Procreate; or if you're more of a word person jot it down in a plain-old notepad app.
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There is a mood board in the wood-paneled office of Gabriel Hendifar that does much to explain why Apparatus, the lighting studio he founded with his husband, Jeremy Anderson, has become one of the most buzzed-about design firms.
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For weeks beforehand, Mr. Hendifar and Mr. Anderson will drop mood board image hints on Instagram, and the 900 or so attendees are given a one-word dress code, like "Finished" or "Lacquered," and strongly encouraged to come decked out.
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" Meanwhile, Playboy's creative director Erica Loewy reveals that Scott's "mood board" for the shoot "evoked emotions of pleasure, freedom and sensuality, juxtaposed with innocence, an ode to their love, and the beauty of Kylie being captured through her lover's perspective.
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For his latest Ferragamo collection, Paul Andrew looked to Jungian female archetypes — the mystic, the lover and the wise woman among them — for inspiration; on his mood board were images of real women including Kate Bush, Oprah and Nancy Pelosi.
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To create the mood board for the collection, Ellery turned to her archives — which, unlike those of some Parisian fashion houses, existed entirely in her personal records: heaps of photographs she had taken on film over the past three years.
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On the walls, a mood board mapped Mr. Sialelli's vision for the season in a magpie collage of vintage magazine spreads, archival motifs and what Mr. Sialelli called "a fracas of archetypes": Fassbinder meets "Ladyhawke" meets Jean Genet meets manga.
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She calls herself "not so much of a mood-board person," and instead likens herself to a D.J. "A D.J. takes a song that you might've heard before, and he puts it in his mix and it becomes entirely new," she says.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: "duck" by doubledollardee, BlingeeI love the ducks of TumblrIn 2008, the New York Times disparaged Tumblr as a "digital mood board," but that doesn't give it enough credit for its support of new and exciting ducks.
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" The newspaper, which noted that the baby is due in May, added that Kim and West, 41, keep a "mood board" in their living room featuring "a collection of looks they like, or tweaks they want to make to Kim's cosmetic, fragrance and accessory lines.
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Can you still actually get them 🤷🏼♀️ With Summer release happening very soon I thought I'd let you in on some of my mood board images... it's full of fun and colour and will give you a good insight in what's about to drop!
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Mr. Van Noten said, in an interview the morning after the show, that when he realized he had tacked up numerous photos of Mr. Lacroix's work on his mood board, he thought that instead of creating an homage, he would go straight to the source.
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His mood board is a riot of references ("Barry Lyndon" next to David Armstrong's pink-haired Boyd Holbrook in the bathtub), his background global: He was raised in Malaysia, Brunei, Gabon, Scotland and the Netherlands; educated in London; and has worked in Paris, Antwerp and New York.
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Because of this welcome change to the fashion landscape, many of the most talked-about trends of the week are already available to shop both new and secondhand, making it more convenient than ever before to take NYFW off your mood board and into your wardrobe.
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Having worked with Denis before, I had the luxury of knowing what he will or won't like, so when I do a very quick makeup test, or a board — every character, I put a mood board of photos, inspiration behind each character — I usually know he'll go for it.
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Both rounds of debates so far have spent almost a third of their time discussing health care in particular—a vital topic, but in some ways a far weedier one than foreign policy, and one in which candidates' personal views are about as meaningful as a mood board.
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After returning home to Paris, she met with the D.J. and producer Sebastian Akchoté, known for his remixes of Daft Punk and Justice, and gave him a mood-board-style list of cinematic reference points, many of which overlapped with the movies that shocked and thrilled her in her youth.
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But, the danger in that is getting too caught up in this pick-and-choose mood board path to creativity is that it becomes very easy to erase the life story of those symbols; to forget how they were used to hurt those who first created them, and reward those who appropriated them.
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Now, amid a dreamy, sunlight-streaked mood board of Jamieson's many inspirations — Jimi Hendrix in a poppy-print suit, details of a Jean François Bony still life, Chloë Sevigny naked but for a beribboned rose wreath — are images of her latest designs: delicate sweet peas, miniature cactuses and smiley upside-down rainbows.
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In addition to cups and palettes full of bright primary pigments, the installation includes Míro's own mood board of inspirational clippings — among them a picture of Picasso and a photograph of a beach — a tile floor splattered with paint, and, on one work table, what looks like a large, blown glass bong.
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Today she tells us about TEEN MEME-AND-THEME accounts, which is so much fun to say out loud: At first glance, a meme-and-theme page looks a lot like a general aesthetics account, a type of page dedicated to posting on a single color scheme or theme, like a digital mood board.
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A mood board filled with pictures of the Tharu people — an ethnic group indigenous to the southern foothills of the Himalayas — revealed colors, textures and prints that the designer has translated into his pieces with a sense of playfulness and authority; Gurung is Nepalese, and his origins serve as a huge source of inspiration.
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From her on-screen wardrobes in Kids, Party Monster, and The Last Days With Disco (LBDs, pleated midi skirts, and tube tops included) to her effortless street style ensembles, you can bet that if a photo of Sevigny lands on our desks, we're going to mood board it — and, probably, attempt to recreate it ourselves.
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Now that Solange's album has dropped, her BlackPlanet page functions as many things: She has a visual Tumblr-esque mood board, a page for her live tour dates, and a place to sign up for a newsletter, and a link to her store (which is currently selling A Seat at The Table anniversary vinyls).
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"It's my fantasy of a world where we can all live together," Mr. Piccioli had said backstage, and he was referring both to his mood board — where art by Rosso Fiorentino, the Renaissance Florentine painter, coexisted with a sketch of Diana Vreeland and the photographs of Irving Penn (among other visuals) — and to his work.
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Somewhat of an art freak (if he wasn't collecting it, he was reading about it), designing clothes was Costa's art form: the spring 2005 collection inspired by sculptor Brâncuși; photographs by Max Eastman that live on his mood board (and probably his walls); the angular prowess of minimalist Donald Judd; Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, and so many others.
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In "Anointing of the Pistol" (2017) and "First Quarter Reportage" (2017) Sonhouse gives the viewer the sketches, the bits and pieces of the characters and scenes he has refined over time, the latter piece like a mood board or visual archive in which one can pick out the cultural themes and icons that provide the raw material for the paintings.
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Because you don't want to be told to start meditating or make a mood board (my mom's idea) as a way out of confusion-paralysis, here are some other ideas from life coaches, psychologists, and people who have experience crawling their way through a mid-20s crisis of their own, as to what you should do to make things a little more manageable.
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From the bombastic runway events, to the eclectic displays of personal style that pepper the sidewalks outside the shows; the looks that are presented to us online, on social media, and — if you live in one of the world's fashion capitals — right in front of our faces as we're going about our lives provide a real-time mood board that inform our outfit-making decisions.
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A few weeks before the film premiere, Ms. Robbins, 41, whose six-foot frame was clad in a practical black jumpsuit, sat in her compact studio in southwest London amid costumes for her next film ("Last Letter From Your Lover"), a mood board, a sewing machine and a well-stocked book shelf, to talk about crafting "Downton" style, and how it relates to clothes in the real world.
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"When it started, couture was made for white women," Mr. Piccioli said, standing before a mood board pinned with photographs of different versions of a Black Madonna, works by the contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall and the famous 1948 Cecil Beaton shoot for Vogue of nine white models in Charles James couture gowns, all juxtaposed with photos from Ebony and Franca Sozzani's 2008 "Black Issue" of Italian Vogue.
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The wall next to the table is covered with an expanse of lumberyard flakeboard, a Gen X mood board of sorts featuring a faded cardboard cutout of Socks, the Clinton family's White House cat; a dime-store eyeglass chain packet featuring a shot of his mother from her modeling days; a photo of himself with a beard from a British GQ spread; and a warped cover of a Partridge Family LP. Producing a plastic bag of marijuana buds from his sweatshirt pocket, he rolled a joint on the table.
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