June 2009
127 posts
May 2009
133 posts
My Lost City by F. Scott Fitzgerald
After the Roaring 20s, Fitzgerald on New York City:
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building and, just as it had been a tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza Roof to take leave of the beautiful city, extending as far as eyes could reach, so now I went to the roof of the last and most magnificent of towers. Then I understood — everything was...
A SHADED VIEW ON FASHION FILM
Diane Pernet’s film festival dedicated to fashion, style and beauty. Submit your film for ASVOFF2 by June 30, 2009.
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RICHARD KERN at Rental Gallery →
The future is not what it used to be
I’m in Hong Kong right now; as always, I’m just awed by the way the city looks. And this time I think I’ve figured out why it’s so appealing.
Hong Kong, with its incredible cluster of tall buildings stacked up the slope of a mountain, is the way the future was supposed to look. The future — the way I learned it from science-fiction movies — was supposed to be Manhattan squared: vertical,...
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FILM DIRECTOR PIERRE DEBUSSCHERE
FASHION EDITOR NICOLA FORMICHETTI
INTRODUCTION TO WOLFRAM ALPHA →
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