The Pink Portent
Burmese Box
The material an artist choses to work with reveals much about the way she views herself. Take this nineteenth century box from what was then Burma, for example:
Is the Cheongsam Really the Chinese National Dress?
Why do Chinese fashionistas eschew the cheongsam?
You Are What You Wear
Quick: what jewelry are you wearing as you’re reading this? Do you know who made it and what they were trying to say? What are you trying to say about yourself as you’re wearing it?
One Recipe for Modernisation
How to retain your own way of looking at things.
On Beauty
“The ancients said ‘man can be enraptured only by perfection.’ What, then, is perfection in a woman? It is her charm.