Sleek magazine
June 27th, 2009 •
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Alfredo di Stéfano. The legendary soccer player, nicknamed The Blond Arrow.

“For those few like me who live without knowing how to have life, what’s left but renunciation as our way and contemplation as our destiny? Neither knowing nor able to know what religious life is, since faith isn’t acquired through reason, and unable to have faith in or even react to the abstract notion of man, we’re left with the aesthetic contemplation of life as our reason for having a soul. Impassive to the solemnity of any and all worlds, indifferent to the divine, and disdainers of what is human, we uselessly surrender ourselves to pointless sensation, cultivated in a refined Epicureanism, as befits our cerebral nerves.”

Madeleine L’Engle. This woman makes me cry.
Look at her titles: The Arm of the Starfish, A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

Giasco Bertoli – 15 Love. With Oliver Zahm, Mark Bothwick, Anders Edstrom, etc.

Jamón ibérico, Iberian ham, also called pata negra, is a type of cured ham produced only in Spain. It is at least 75% black Iberian pig, also called the cerdo negro (black pig).

Pierre Hermé. French pastry chef that Vogue called “the Picasso of Pastry”.
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Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.
The Capgras delusion (or Capgras syndrome) is a disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that a friend, spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.

Schwartz spent time at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin before finally graduating from New York University in 1935. Soon after graduation, he made his parents’ disastrous marriage the subject of his most famous short story, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” which was published in 1937 in the first issue of Partisan Review.

Lucas Ossendrijver, the 37-year-old Dutch-born Lanvin men’s wear designer, has an international resume to rival most diplomats. After graduating from the Fashion Institute Arnhem (ex alumni include Ossendrijver’s compatriots Viktor & Rolf), he skipped from Kenzo, to the German-Greek Kostas Murkudis, and then to Dior Homme in the Hedi Slimane years, before being charged in 2006 with translating Alber Elbaz’s success at Lanvin to the men’s market.
Today Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast is known as an internationally renowned nature reserve, but its history is shrouded in secrecy and tales of military testing.
Cobra Mist, a film by Emily Richardson. Cobra Mist explores the relationship between the landscape of Orford Ness and the physical traces of its unusual military history.
