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The Highest Notes
What I’ve always hoped to find in Milan, during many, many fashion weeks here, are traces of the glamorous Maria Callas, who took to the grand La Scala stage in the mid-1950s, and took the city by storm. Sometimes, seeing…
Let them eat….
It’s now thought that if Marie Antoinette made her most famously un-p.c. statement at all, she said, “Let them eat brioche!” and not, as legend has it, ‘cake.’ (Rousseau offered the disambiguation.) Let me eat brioche! The eggy puffed cake…
Kiki in Motion
Kiki de Montparnasse, Man Ray‘s famously saucy lady muse, plays a big role in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. I was thinking of her today and came across this great, short compilation of archival black and white film footage of Kiki—shot…
Season of the Crickets
Now is the time, according to Japanese connaiseurs, when the suzumushi cricket sings at its sweetest, in the autumn, just before it dies. I write about these insect musicians in the Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, but I couldn’t give you…
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