Black | The one that changes the evening. There are garments that flatter. And then there are garments that transform. The Raphaella Corset belongs to the second category — the kind of piece that changes not just how you look but how you move, how you hold yourself, how the evening feels from the inside….
Black | For the evening that deserves it. Some garments are worn. Others are inhabited. The Sophie Lace Bodysuit belongs to the second category — the kind of piece you put on slowly, that changes the register of the evening the moment it is fastened. Black floral lace over sheer mesh, underwired for shape, lace-up…
Pour Moi Sydney Double Strap Underwired Swimsuit The one you wear when you mean it. There is a particular kind of confidence that has nothing to do with exposure. It is the confidence of a woman who has chosen carefully, who knows exactly what she is wearing and why, and feels it with every movement….
Basic Books | Music, Culture There is a particular kind of book that does not simply describe its subject but transforms your relationship to it. Ted Gioia’s How to Listen to Jazz is that kind of book. Read it on a Tuesday evening and by Wednesday morning you will hear music differently… more attentively, more…
Vintage | Short Stories There is a moment in the title story of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber when the narrator, a young bride alone in her husband’s castle, opens a forbidden door and finds something that will change her forever. It is a moment of dread and recognition in equal measure, the feeling that…
William Morrow | Philosophy, Essays There are books that arrive at exactly the right moment, and books that arrive long before the culture is ready for them. Lin Yutang’s The Importance of Living, published in 1937, belongs firmly to the second category. A Chinese philosopher writing in English, addressing a Western world he found baffling…
Penguin | Aphorisms and Personal Observations There is a particular pleasure in a book that does not ask you to start at the beginning. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Bed of Procrustes is that kind of book: a collection of aphorisms that can be opened anywhere, read for five minutes or fifty, and set down without…
Fitzcarraldo Editions | Translated by Sasha Dugdale There are books you read, and books you inhabit. Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory is firmly the latter: a slow, circling, quietly devastating meditation on family, photography, objects and the nature of remembering itself. It is one of those rare works that changes the way you look…