DIARY OF A LISBON SISTER

photos / Jingyu Lin
makeup + hair / Andrea C. Samuels @ Factor Artists
styling / Ellen Grace
models / Rebecca & Sami @ Ford Models Chicago
all quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

Sami (left): Opening Ceremony, sweater / Brooks 346, vintage shirt / Zara, leather pleated skirt /
Topshop, socks / ASOS, loafers
Rebecca (right): Topshop, blouse / MINKPINK, jumpsuit / Ann Taylor, sweater / Topshop, socks /
Stella McCartney, sneakers / Topshop, faux fur stole

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them…”

“Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.” 

Sami (left): Vintage, white ruffle blouse / Vintage, 1980s bolero jacket / Brunello Cucinelli, black
tie trousers / Prada, slip-on sneakers / ASOS, black neck tie as hair bow
Rebecca (right): Vintage, black ruffle blouse / MSGM, skirt /
Nordstrom, fish net tights / Stella McCartney, sneakers
“The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.”

Sami (right): Vintage, white ruffle blouse / The Kooples, black piercing dress / Topshop, socks / Opening Ceremony, sandals
Rebecca (left): Alice + Olivia, blouse / H&M, black sequin patched trousers /
Nordstrom, fish nettights / ASOS, black platform heels / Topshop, faux fur stole
“We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.” 

Sami (left): Tibi, sweater / MINKPINK, jumpsuit / Prada, slip on sneakers
Rebecca (right): Topshop, striped blouse under a vintage silk night slip dress /
Bimba y Lola, navy neoprene sweater tied around waist / Stella McCartney, sneakers

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly”

“In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”