Beauty In The Broken Places: The Art of Kintsugi

Some see beauty in the broken places…others make beauty from the broken places. There’s a famous technique in Japan known as kintsugi. Translated, it means “golden joinery” or “to patch with gold”. It’s a technique that stitches together broken pottery using gold applied with laquer on the broken places, enhancing the breaks. The technique is also […]

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Why It’s Better To Be Strong Than Pretty

There’s a type of woman in this world you meet only occasionally. She’s the type you can’t remember what she looks like. How can that be? In a society that lives and breathes off the measurement of beauty, how can you not know if someone is attractive or not? How can you not remember if […]

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Erica Jong Explores Every Feeling A Woman Has Ever Had

Erica Jong is an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Fear of Flying is a quasi-memoir following the […]

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Grace Coddington: It May Take Years To Be Seen

Unless you were in the industry or in the fashion know, it’s unlikely Grace Coddington would have been a name you recognized pre 2009. But this accidental celebrity has always been in the forefront of fashion. You just never noticed. As a young girl stuck in Anglesey, Wales, the arrival of her copy of Vogue […]

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