On the top floor of Pier 59 it was pretty much impossible not to feature in somebody else’s selfie. There were strident leopard-print fashionistas strutting and restrutting dramatic entrances into the Oxford Fashion Studio’s waiting room (always recorded by a trustworthy friend); leopard-print solo flyers touched up their foundation in phone reflections, occasionally pausing to […]
As a kid, I religiously peeled the skins off grapes first. A bitter foil to the soft fleshened interior to follow, I bit them brief and swallowed whole as a sort of drum roll. That stark of a distinction between the skin and its grape body hadn’t existed again until this day… several decades later. […]
“You’re a NOSE” “No you are!” To be complimented as such denotes Ability Proclivity Untimely Sensitivity to smell: the ability to compose and identify fragrances to the point of affecting Memory: A Universal Language Spanning the globe in terms of fragrance archives, so meticulously curated and shelved, it’s no wonder Osswald Perfumery invites exquisite photography, […]
