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Marguerite de Ponty

Detail of 'Louhi' (2024) by Yasmin Bawa. Hemp, lime, natural pigments. 96 x 83 x 10 cm.

In a studio tucked into Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, Yasmin Bawa is reshaping the language of sculpture—literally. Working primarily with hempcrete, a natural material composed of... Read More

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Miista

Miista may not be a household name—yet—but the London-based label has quietly built a reputation for thoughtful design and slow, deliberate craftsmanship. Founded in 2011... Read More

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Character Studies in Commercial Literature

Portrait of a young woman in white #2 by Jacques-Louis David, used for a cover for Ottessa Moshfegh's book MY Year of Rest and Relaxation.

MILAN—Fashion and literature have always shared a fascination with surface and depth. Baudelaire, Wilde, Capote, catalogued fashion details obsessively in their writings, and used clothes... Read More

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Photograph by Erich Höhne. Courtesy of Deutsche Fotothek.

The Geometry of Motion and Zadie Smith. Wassily Kandinsky, a painter of color and form, once envisioned a future where dance would shed its ornamental... Read More

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