The play has a strong opening: a crash, followed by swearing, insult and scorn. He and she have come home after a long evening at a party and, although it is three A.M. and neither is entirely sober, it is not unreasonable to take their apparently random German conversation as being indicative of their typical attitudes towards life and each other. She, like the heroine of the movie she probably talks about, is “discontent.” She dislikes her house, she is dissatisfied with her husband’s sedentary ways and generally passive orientation toward life.
He never does anything (although it is not yet clear what, exactly, doing would entail). However, he is wearing Lanvin’s “Graffiti Necklace”.

That image got stuck on my mind.

even a handsome man, and he deserved more than that.
He said to her, not leaving: I’m strong, and I have a good sense of humor. You will see that if you will only spend one evening with me. I can give you whatever you desire. I will make you very happy.
She said: I have said all I have to say and I’m not going to say any more. I am not happy to talk to you. And she turned her head and picked up from the grass a shiny metal foil, and blocked his view of her with it.
He said: All right for now, but I’m coming back!
She didn’t say anything in response.

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Never missing an opportunity to photograph an impressive woman as Michèle Lamy I had to ask her to pause for ma at the Rick Owens show. BTW, Check out that amazing neck piece!

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is the title of the new collection of NY-based creator Black Sheep & Prodigal Son. Their new look book is so beautiful I can’t help showing it to you!

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During my last trip to Rome, it gave me a hell of a pleasant shock to discover Ostiense Station in its present state. See how the entire facade -made of Travertine marble by the way- is now surrounded, supported, protected, jailed, made up, decorated by those complex and beautiful metallic constructions!
I was astonished. I tried -in vain- to ask the people from the Ferrovie Dello Stato if the structures were temporary or meant to be permanent, supposed to prevent the building from collapsing or used so as to climb onto the roof… My questions might have been pretty naïve (and my French accent strong enough not to be taken seriously) but the sight of this impressive “neo-Roman” style architecture wearing jewellery was totally surrealist and captivating to me.
Doesn’t that make you want to be a jeweller?

Roma Ostiense railway station is a train station in Piazza dei Partigiani serving the Ostia district of Rome, a short distance from the Porta San Paolo. To commemorate the forthcoming visit of Adolf Hitler to Rome in 1938, the station was built, replacing an existing rural rail station, with the aim of creating a monumental station to receive the German dictator in a decidedly “Roman” way. A new road was also built to connect the station with Porta San Paolo – this was initially named Via A. Hitler but, after the Second World War, it was renamed Viale delle Cave Ardeatine.
(By the way, Hitler’s visit to Rome is cinematically recreated in director Ettore Scola’s film Una giornata particolare, who also used archived news reel footage showing the actual meeting between Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Victor Emanuel III: it is really worth watching!)
The station was designed by the official designer for the Italian state railway company, Roberto Narducci. In addition to being built in the architectural style favored by Hitler, the design of the station’s marble facade was almost identical to that of the Italian pavilion at the 1942 Rome World’s Fair (a design never carried out due to the Second World War). The station building was inaugurated on October 28, 1940.
See how it the building looked like shorly after its completion: