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“Shame must change sides”
Women we love International WOMEN’S DAY 2025 When Gisèle Pelicot said “shame must change sides”, she struck on something that has occupied my thoughts day in, day out for most of my adult life. It is this: Crimes involving violence against women, and particularly those involving sexual violence, do something more than violate a woman’s safety and dignity. They inject her with a burning shame that does not belong to her. As someone who has lived with this feeling my whole life, let me tell you, carrying shame that is not yours to carry is International WOMEN’S DAY 2025 incredibly confusing. It is harmful. It is heavy. It weighs us down and it keeps us silent and small and scared. Yet Gisèle – a 72-year-old woman from regional France –…
Freedom to Rome: Isabella Rossellini is Living Fearlessly, Aging Gracefully and Laughing Bawdily
it’s a rare thing to see a movie star utterly disappear into a role. In Conclave, Isabella Rossellini does exactly that. With a largely silent, self-effacing performance, the 72-year-old actor and model pulls off a remarkable vanishing act as Sister Agnes, a stoic matron who manages the legion of nuns that serve the cardinals as they struggle to elect a new pope. The sole woman in an A-list ensemble led by Ralph Fiennes, Rossellini’s character bustles through backrooms of the Vatican, a monochrome cipher in a sea of scarlet men. On paper, it’s a small part, with almost no dialogue and less than eight minutes of screen time. But as a nun who knows too much, Sister Agnes is a stealth weapon hiding in plain sight. A spy in the…
unhinged
I’m 20 years old, cripplingly hungover and curled up on the couch in my disastrously mould-prone Wellington sharehouse. Like every other anxiety-filled Sunday, I’m feeling sorry for myself. I’m contemplating whether I’ll ever find a boyfriend in this godforsaken city – spoiler alert, I won’t – when my housemate bursts into the lounge room. Wordlessly, she thrusts her phone screen towards me, awaiting my reaction. As my eyes dart across the screen, taking in the bold orange text, my sleep-deprived (and probably alcoholically poisoned) body is filled with sudden adrenaline: Tinder, the buzzy American dating app, has finally launched in New Zealand. Like most single people who came of age as dating apps entered the world, I initially had mixed feelings about using an ‘app’ to find people to date.…
THE GAME ROOM
The game room has always held a unique place in the home—a sanctuary where playfulness meets creativity, and imagination finds its footing in the tactile world of competition. Yet today, this familiar space is being redefined by artificial intelligence. As AI transforms nearly every aspect of our homes, from energy management to architectural visualization, game rooms are evolving into intelligent, adaptive environments that do more than entertain. They now engage, respond, and reflect the personalities of their inhabitants with unprecedented precision. In this month's featured space, we examine the Côte d'Azur estate's game room, a luminous, ocean-facing expanse where tradition meets transformation. Here, Modish.Ai's proprietary technology has brought 22 eccentric design styles to life, each one offering a fresh interpretation of this dynamic room. And as we discuss the broader…
CREATING Painted Words
i love using words featured in my work for inspiration. It’s like a daily affirmation infused into your art, but also, it can serve as a way to work through something you are dealing with. We often hear artists and makers speak of healing through craft. But how do you choose a word? Here’s a fun and simple way to narrow it down: Search online for “words of the year” or “inspiring words to live by.” You will find dozens of one-pagers to choose from. Print off a page and take a few moments to read through the words, crossing off the ones that don’t speak to you and circling the ones that stand out. Go through the list over and over comparing the circled words to one another until…
STYLE ON THE NILE
TRAVELERS’ TALES, FROM NEAR + FAR THE HOUSES in Luxor seem to strive skyward, forever optimistic. From their roofs, brick columns rise to the heavens, sprouting rebar in anticipation of another layer of construction. Homeowners don’t have to pay taxes on buildings that remain a work in progress, and many remain hopeful that a windfall might facilitate a new addition. From 1570 to 1069 B.C., this city was the capital of Egypt, and every pharaoh who came to power launched a new construction project within its sprawling temple complex. For half a millennium, it was the center of a civilization. Now, on the strength of a new tide of visitors, the city continues to grow. In its heyday, Luxor was known as Wase—the city of the scepter. The king of the gods,…