“I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the [...]

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At Changchun, I had to walk. I left the train and stretched. It was so late, so early actually, but still the station bristled with life. It seemed filled with a million sleeping dragons all moving silently, steaming in the preternatural light of the station. The air smelled of cold, of snow, of coal dust [...]

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I sometimes feel like my body is divided in to departments all run with modern bureaucratic efficiency. One of the busiest departments I like to call The Department of Great Leveling. The Department of Great Leveling is staffed with keeners and ladder-climbers, those people that are totally fast-tracking to the top. I imagine the team [...]

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When I was in high school and a capital G goth we used to call Nyquil not Absinthe the goth cocktail. (don’t quote me on that) Forever misunderstood, I would stroll the halls of my school, my coffin shaped back pack weighted down with my hand-made velvet covered books filled (of course) with my own [...]

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John Galliano describes the inspiration for his Autumn 2009 RTW collection. This is why we love Mr. Galliano.

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Though it certainly feels like I am the one who does it, we each take turns cooking dinner in our haunted house. For the nights when I am less than a blossoming spring flower and get home totally tired and cranky from work (i.e. most nights) and find out *surprise* it’s my turn to cook, [...]

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It started thusly…
Wait, first you must forgive us not writing for so long. As you know Alice is god knows where and our parents are more than a little upset (Alice, they are) so much so that the house feels as if a dark wet sheet of tension has been thrown upon it. So please [...]

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Jowita Bydlowska, is not only our house photographer, she is magical and talented and if she wasn’t our friend we would be totally jealous of her. She is down to earth, frank and totally pregnant, we generally frown on that kind of state, but couldn’t be happier in her case. This is what she says [...]

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