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On Holidaywear

December 22, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  Catching up with an old colleague last week, I noticed that this intense, brilliant force of nature, who has dedicated years of her life unflinchingly working to combat...

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Arnys et moi and Me

December 10, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   How do you remember something you never knew? The orphaned opening words of Arnys et moi, journalist Philippe Trétiack’s memoir of the late and legendary Paris shop Ar...

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Subduction

November 05, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   The Earth is six billion years old, but the oldest surface of the floor of its oceans – more than 70% of its area – is only two hundred million years old. At the bound...

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Fight for Fall

October 22, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Instead of a gentle close, summer weltered and sweltered on. Social media automatically reminded a friend that on that same date exactly a decade before, she’d written...

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Stendhal Syndrome

October 08, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  The great writer Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black, once wrote that he was so overcome by the beauty and culture of Florence that he had heart palpitations and ...

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Fit For Purpose

September 24, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   A walk home after dinner at a favorite neighborhood restaurant. Heavy rain. Neighbors who had just fertilized their sizeable yard with manure, of all things in a city....

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Activation Energy

September 10, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   When I first told my parents I wanted a fountain pen, they laughed at me. A generation that had grown up learning to write on the scratchy, messy, finicky things could...

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Book Review: Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem

August 27, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Many of the best clothing-industry memoirs, such as Martin Greenfield’s Measure of a Man, spend less time describing the writer’s time in the industry than they do the...

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