The New Birkin: Skin as the Ultimate Luxury

There was a time when wealth announced itself through the weight of a watch, the smell of leather, the waiting list for a handbag. Now it’s in the quiet…

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October 2025

Swan Lake: The Eternal Ballet

Tchaikovsky's masterpiece as a reflection on love, betrayal, and transcendence

Oct 26 • 

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Maria: When The Stage Goes Silent

How Pablo Larraín explores identity, solitude, and the echoes of a voice that defined a generation

Oct 5 • 

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2 years on Substack!

Thank you to this amazing community and looking forward to celebrate more milestones!

Oct 1 • 

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September 2025

Gucci’s The Tiger: A Cinematic Satire or Fashion’s New Frontier?

Theatricality and paradox: reflections on fashion in Demna’s Gucci

Sep 28 • 

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Staging the Unconscious: L’Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme as a Prototype of the Gesamtkunstwerk

How the 1938 Surrealist Exhibition turned Paris into a living hallucination?

Sep 21 • 

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In the Mood for Love, a Cinematic Masterpiece

How Wong Kar-wai turns time, space, and fashion into the language of desire.

Sep 14 • 

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Constantin Brâncuși: Sculpting the Essence of Modernism

Searching for Simplicity and revealing the Invisible through Sculpture

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August 2025

Is offline the new luxury?

Why true luxury might mean being unreachable, unseen, and at peace

Aug 24 • 

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Sherrie Levine: Reframing Authorship and Feminism Through Appropriation

Challenging originality, reclaiming power: Sherrie Levine’s feminist revisions of art history

Aug 17 • 

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La Belle Époque

The Present as a Stranger: Time, Memory, and Longing in La Belle Époque

Aug 10 • 

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June 2025

Beyond mad love: Jacqueline Lamba, a Surrealist in her own right

Deep dive in another Surrealism’s overlooked artist and the marriage that tried to define her

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