Interview: Fabriano Fabbri

The Italian professor takes a phenomenological approach to contemporary fashion in his bilingual book

If we exclude photographic books and classic essays, it’s difficult to find a truly interesting publication about fashion. This is not the case with “L’orizzonte degli Eventi,” or “The Event Horizon,” recently written by professor Fabriano Fabbri and published (in Italian and English) by Atlante. As the subtitle suggests, the book analyzes “fashion styles from the ’60s to today” and in the process the author …

Becoming Hemingway by Henry Hargreaves

Impersonators pose as "Papa" in the curious Kiwi's latest photo project

Back in 1957, photographer Yousef Karsh asked an aging Earnest Hemingway to sit for a portrait. In what would become an iconic image, the author stares to the right of the camera, white-bearded and gruff. More than any other image, the portrait is the one most in tune with the romantic image of Hemingway as a stern, imposing genius—not to mention, it made famous the …

Mark Twain’s Advice for Little Girls

Mark Twain’s witty advice to little girls was originally given out by the legendary author in 1865, and then lovingly retold in Italian in 2010 by illustrator Vladimir Radunsky. When Maria Popova, the brains behind the website Brain Pickings, stumbled upon it soon after, she decided to bring Radunsky’s rendition to life in English. Packed with humorous advice and charming pictorials, this how-to guide is …