A Pyjama Pilgrimage and Other Reads This Week
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
A Pyjama Pilgrimage and Other Reads This Week
HUR Reads is our definitive shortlist of the most prominent articles from around the web.
By HURS Team
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Forever Twiggy
At 16, Twiggy arrived on the fashion scene looking nothing like the models who came before her: petite, freckled, pixie-haired and unmistakably young. Six decades later, she remains Twiggy, still answering her own fan mail and still largely unconcerned with aging. A new documentary, Twiggy: The Woman Behind the Icon, traces the life beyond the lashes, from modeling to film, Broadway, music and fashion design.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
In Rome, Schostal Originals has been making the case for good sleepwear since 1870. The family-run haberdashery is best known for its hand-finished cotton and flannel pyjamas, cut on roomy men’s patterns and sold as unisex. The old-fashioned appeal is rather the point, though recent collections venture into original prints, nightshirts designed for daylight and plans for silk sets. Even TikTok, apparently, has taken notice.
HOW TO SPEND IT
Rita Ackermann has spent 33 years making sure no two chapters of her career look quite alike. The Budapest-born, New York-based artist first made her name with provocative paintings of adolescent girls, then moved through portraiture, collage and increasingly enigmatic abstractions. Her latest works layer silk-screened prints with pastel and chalk, with chance playing a considerable role. As for what they mean? Ackermann would rather you decide—or simply not decide at all.
T MAGAZINE
Self-defense class starts with a deceptively simple lesson: say no. Anna Holmes explores what it takes for women to make that word physical, from shouting down an aggressor to overcoming the instinct to freeze. Research suggests Empowerment Self-Defense can significantly reduce sexual assault, but Holmes’s own training offers a messier lesson. Sometimes she fights back; sometimes she cannot move. Either way, she learns that resistance isn’t as simple as knowing how to throw a punch.
THE ATLANTIC
After three decades at the centre of fashion, Gisele Bündchen has little left to prove, and, at 46, increasingly little interest in trying. In her Miami home, the supermodel talks about trading the fashion world’s relentless pace for family, meditation, exercise and an appreciation for ordinary pleasures. She still turns down most jobs, but these days the things she says yes to are considerably less glamorous: a volleyball game, the park, a morning on the water.