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Shine Between Being and Seeming

Costume Jewelry as Cultural Dynamism and a Coded Image of Modernity
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Cover of the TASCHEN book Costume Jewelry, featuring colorful vintage brooches including a jeweled octopus, a parrot with a green stone, cherries, a fish, and a hand-shaped pendant.

With remarkable visual force, “Costume Jewelry” stages the history of American costume jewelry. At the same time, ideas of freedom, style, and social ascent become visible. What is most compelling is...

BOOKS
Machine and Myth

How TASCHEN Creates a Monument to Speed with Ferrari
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Ferrari XL book by Pino Allievi published by TASCHEN

A book like an engine block: cool, gleaming, precise. “Ferrari XL” does not only want to tell a story but to embody one. It is less a declaration of love than a monument – a testament to the idea of...

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The emptiness after the glamour

Olivier Rousteing and Balmain part ways
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Symbolic image: Black mannequin with a golden dress against a gray background

He was the orphan who invented himself. For fourteen years, Olivier Rousteing turned the house of Balmain into a pop spectacle – a time between genius, hubris, and digital self-worship. Now an era...

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The Archive of Fatigue

ZARA’s THE ARCHIVE (October 2025) – On the Neutralization of Elegance
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Rows of archive shelves filled with boxes and files, symbolizing order and aesthetic stillness.

With “THE ARCHIVE”, ZARA once again confuses attitude with silence. Between muted colors and controlled silhouettes, it reveals no new aesthetic – only the perfection of fatigue.

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