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28 Mar

The world in response to VALIE EXPORT, feminist art

The world in response to VALIE EXPORT, feminist art
From wearing genital-exposing pants, taking her name from a cigarette brand, and confronting strangers with the invitation to grope her breasts, we remember the novel artist’s most rebellious, provocative works Educated in a convent until the age of 14, the pioneering feminist artist VALIE EXPORT would spend her life removing the shackles of her religious upbringing. “My artworks are still a rebel against the Catholic faith,” she said in an interview in 2019. Born Waltraud Lehner in Linz, Austria in 1940, she was higher known by her nickname ‘Walie’. In 1967, she renounced her father’s and her ex-husband’s names to forge a recent identity – VALIE EXPORT. The one woman artist among the many...
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28 Jan

The Bespoke World of German Tailor Egon Brandstetter

The Bespoke World of German Tailor Egon Brandstetter
LONDON — German men’s tailor Egon Brandstetter and his business partner Marc Straub never expected to be the unsung fashion heroes of Todd Field’s third feature film, “Tár.” The film starts with Cate Blanchett’s character Lydia Tár, the primary female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and an EGOT recipient, being fitted for a bespoke shirt dress and suit on the Egon Brandstetter atelier by Brandstetter himself. “A location scout got here two weeks before shooting [in November 2021] and said they might be doing a movie, but he was not allowed to say what it was. It was a young German guy and we didn’t comprehend it was Hollywood,” Brandstetter told WWD over Zoom, with Straub sitting next to him. Egon Brandstetter...
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22 Jan

Maschalagnia: contained in the world of armpit fetishism

Maschalagnia: contained in the world of armpit fetishism
From kink club nights to JustForFans content, Ryan Cahill lifts the lid on the armpit partialism scene If you hear the word “kink”, what’s the very first thing that involves mind? For a lot of, it’ll be the things which are represented within the mainstream most frequently: bondage, feet, roleplay. For others, it is perhaps your individual personal kink, perhaps that’s tights, tickling or trampling? But for some people, the very first thing that springs to mind shall be armpits. We see them all over the place: on billboards, in magazines, on the gym, you’ve probably even had your face stuffed in a single on public transport, but while many wouldn’t give armpits...
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