Bookology
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
Author: Lucy Adlington
Published: Harper Paperbacks, September 2021
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five, young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers.
The Optimists Telescope
Author: Bina Venkataraman
Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2019
A trailblazing exploration of how we can plan better for the future. Many of us have forgotten how to make smart decisions for the long run. Whether it comes to our finances, our health, our communities, or our planet, it’s easy to avoid thinking ahead.
The Next Migration
Author: Sonia Shah
Published: Bloomsbury, June 2020
On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were historically porous. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story.
The Queens Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Published: Penguin Classics, 2009
It was a book first and worth reading: Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given a tranquilizer twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers that she is a chess genius…..
Zooming in on Culture
Jeffrey Deitch´s Insight
“The best way to become a player in the art world is to be an underbidder on a major work of art [at auction]. Just raise your hand near one of the top bids on a Warhol or another major lot and Josh will list you in The Baer Faxt among the underbidders.”
The Man of Sorrows
In January Sotheby´s will sell a Botticelli. The panel painting is estimated to sell for $40 Million and is considered ” the defining masterpiece”. The painting will be “unveiled” in Hong Kong and will then go on a global tour, with viewings in Los Angeles. London, Dubai, and New York. Read More
The New Munch Museum
The New Munch Museum in Oslo is open to the public from the 22nd of October onwards. Built by the Spanish architect Juan Herreros. Project and building are controversial and the idea was abandoned several times. So, not only 1100 paintings, 15.500 graphic works, 4700 sketches, and six sculptures are worth seeing but also an interesting piece of architecture in the harbor area. Read More
Other VIP Things
The Baggy Jeans
Skinny jeans were on the way out before Covid, but the lockdown that put us all in PJs for the better part of 2020 has officially put the nail in the ill-fitting coffin.
But what will we wear? Answer: whatever’s cozy.
“The casualization trends that have been accelerated by the pandemic globally are here to stay,” Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh said (while brazenly throwing around fake words like “casualization”).
A surprising Paris finale
There were Olivier Theyskens’s ingenious patchwork dresses; made from thin, multicoloured strips of fabric. At Miu Miu, the standard components of a school uniform became points of adolescent tension as Miuccia Prada flipped between decorum and anger. Louis Vitton´s designer Nicolas Ghesquière’s new collection was again historical, but now darker in flavour and surpassing everybody in opulence. A reference to a masked ball or ….?
Curly long hair dreams
Long hair isn’t the exclusive domain of Rapunzel. In reality, healthy hair looks different for various textures and celebrates shrinkage. While it might seem like curly hair types don’t grow as quickly, the biggest difference in growth rate is actually friction and fatigue, it breaks befor it gets long. Curly hair is incredibly fragile. The less you touch your hair, the more it will grow. Protective styles are great, and are an effective tool in the length retention and hair growth toolbox, but is equally important to look after the scalp. Alternating between detergent-based shampoo and gentle scalp rinses may offer assitance. But hair growth is based on genes, lifestyle, diet, and whatever else is going on with your body.
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