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DEATH NOW Our perceptions of death have continued to shift and evolve yet still revolve around a type of instinctive fear of the end of life. Sometimes we re-direct our attention to life affirmation in order to conceal a latent anxiety regarding its cessation.  Michel Foucault has remarked how this emphasis on life—as a method [...]

DEATH AND THIS DESIGNER What does death look like? Goya’s corpse hauling itself out of the grave in Nada? Or like bloodied and gutted bodies hanging from trees like crows crowding onto a morbidly stiff and gnarled branch, pointing into the darkness in Jacques Callot’s war etchings? The proliferation of skulls, taxidermy, vintage war paraphernalia [...]

Clearly we are talking 60′s Biba style interpretation of the gypsy look rather than actual gypsy, although a post on actual Roma beauty routines and lore sounds a little more interesting…hmm..stay tuned for that. But for now, the Penelope Tree perfected, swinging London, hippy, gypsy look will be just fine. It’s a lot Edie Sedgwick, [...]

GLAMOUR AND GOULASH DAHHLINK Zsa Zsa. Eva. And lesser known Magda. They dripped in diamonds, were forever swathed in fur and between them, racked up a staggering 20 husbands (and one shared one between them-does that bring the number to 19?). Because you can never have too many diamonds or husbands. Frankly I think one [...]