Editor: Maria Papadimitriou Design: Vassiliki-Maria Plavou DESTE Publications, 2014
What role did social media play in the murder of 13-year-old Olly Stephens?
OR HOW TO MAKE A ROMAN COSTUME by Caroline Lawrence, author of The Roman Mysteries Girl fans often ask me 'How can I make myself a tog...
French singer and actress Polaire and her 14 inch waist c. 1890’s
The hearth, Kurt Hielscher, 1933
The word Gypsy is an English term for a people seen as either carefree Romantic wanderers, or lazy untrustworthy lowlifes – both definitely outsiders. Gypsy is a derivative of Egyptian, from…
“Things have a life of their own,” the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.” — Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude In 1952, Jacques Léonard (1909-1994), the son of a Romany horse dealer and the owner of a needlework workshop in Paris … Continue reading "Falling In Love With Barcelona’s Romany People: Photographs of 1960s Montjuïc by Jacque Leonard"
Delphine Schacher’s inspiration for her project that captures young girls comes from when she herself was a child. In 1991 her father visited a small v ...
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