Interview You Just Want To Call The Person ‘Sir’ A conversation with the family behind Manny Gammage’s Texas Hatters Inc. August 16, 2024 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg A conversation with the family behind Manny Gammage’s Texas Hatters Inc. 'I’ve seen wills being written up about hats. Once... [READ MORE]
Interview Hello, Welcome. I’m John. May 24, 2023 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg John Ololubo Ketitai by Alexandra Cronberg, 2018 Each Maasai has about six outfits. Men wear robes – we call them shuka – in different colours and patterns.... [READ MORE]
Prose 75 SIGHTINGS, PARIS FASHION WEEK A/W 2023 March 23, 2023 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg Bill Cunningham New York, 2010. Dir. Richard Press. Courtesy First Thought Films/Zeitgeist Films and MoMA. Peacocking: ridiculous, beautiful, moving. No coats, even in sub zero temperatures. A lot of belly buttons on display. Crowds moving... [READ MORE]
Experiences Theatrum Mundi, or, How We Appear In the Wold A Vestoj Salon at Berliner Volksbühne February 7, 2018 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg We are all actors, audience, observers and co-participants: selves upon selves upon selves. But is there such a thing as... [READ MORE]
Experiences Mask on Mask. The Vestoj Residency at Palais de Tokyo February 6, 2018 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg What does a Michael Jackson impersonator, a drag king, a conceptual clothing company, an improv actor, a smell artist and... [READ MORE]
Experiences Man Up. Man Down. The Vestoj Residency at Palais de Tokyo February 6, 2018 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg Simone de Beauvoir once said that ‘one is not born a woman, but rather becomes one,’ and many would argue... [READ MORE]
Experiences Fail again. Fail better. The Vestoj Residency at Palais de Tokyo February 6, 2018 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg This month long residency allowed us to explore and experiment under the umbrella of the Palais de Tokyo's La Manutention... [READ MORE]
Fiction The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) Excerpt from Chapter 15: Underwear Power September 15, 2015 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg Buying is much more American than thinking and I'm as American as they come. In Europe and the Orient people... [READ MORE]
Prose William Morris on Textile Fabrics June 2, 2015 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg Graphite illustrations by Robert Otto Epstein In his lecture to the International Health Exhibition at the South Kensington Museum, London in 1884, William Morris gives a... [READ MORE]
Fiction Bernice Bobs Her Hair Excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 short story May 18, 2015 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg Bending over she found one of the braids of Marjorie's hair, followed it up with her hand to the point... [READ MORE]
Fiction Tony Takitani Excerpt from Haruki Murakami's short story March 9, 2015 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg Illustrations by Yuki Kitazumi Size-2 shadows of his wife hung there in long rows, layer upon layer, as if someone had gathered and hung... [READ MORE]
Experiences Power Dressing February 14, 2015 By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg Power Dressing examines how clothes emphasise certain roles in power structures, and what happens to our expectations of those roles... [READ MORE]