There probably isn’t a good way to get divorced. Sure, there are those who come out of it walking a little taller than others, but generally when you promise to spend the rest of your life with someone and then rescind the offer, things get messy. Just as Angelina Jolie’s on-set affair in Mr. and […]
x Read more xThigh-high silk stockings held up by black garter belts and topped off by barely-there lace bralettes may sound like the stuff of every man’s NSFW daydream, but the boys of today mostly just prefer cotton underwear and a white t-shirt according to photographer Rachel Tonthat. “A full set of lingerie can be very intimidating,” says […]
x Read more xDo you do it in the open or in the privacy of your single bed? Is it a time when you think about that special someone, or are you concentrated on the sensuality of your own skin? While we can’t all be casanovas, instantly sending any lover into states of sheer ecstasy, there is at […]
x Read more xCalvin Klein’s latest Get Together campaign triggered some deep emotional response in me. As I watched all those couples enjoy time together, sunbathe together or rejoice in the beauty of life, I remembered something important: My first love was a boy from school. Very original, no? We ended up together in a time and age […]
x Read more xYou can tell when the seasons shift in Hong Kong, because it is like waking up in a new city. Everything looks different in the spring. Concrete walls give way to sprouting vines, brown dead grass is reborn in technicolor green and barren branches suddenly hang heavy with blossoms. The white snow that diluted cityscapes […]
x Read more xIoana Cristina Casapu is the Managing Director of Berlin Art Parasites. Journalist, creative director and fashion photographer. She began experimenting with Polaroid film in 2013. Her work was featured in Cake Magazine (UK), Confashion (PL), JUTE (US), Polaroid of the Day (ES), Feature Shoot, Cultartes and others. She is the co-owner of Retro Future media […]
x Read more xI remember parents, friends, and virtual strangers from high school all telling me to “soak it up – these are the best years of your life.” Pop songs and cable TV seemed to agree with them. All the lyrics about teenage love seemed to say that feelings would never be more ardent and that dedication […]
x Read more xA few years after we broke up, I asked my first love if he still had the nude photo he took of me before my 19th birthday in his tiny two-room flat. “Of course,” he said without missing a beat. “Why would I ever throw that away?” I know that you are supposed to be […]
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