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Dressed to kill: Latvia’s most supernatural fashion label

root — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 06:06:13 +0000

Looming before you is a figure in black, her face deathly white. The trees around you shiver in silence as she lurches forward, borne along by a murder of crows. You stagger back, fumble and fall, as the torch you held flickers out beside you. Scenes like this are the hallmark of the Latvian fashion

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Art, anarchy, and pornography: Creativity in Soviet Latvia

root — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:35:42 +0000

“Is it safe up here?” I call across the rooftop, whose tiles creak and groan under each footstep. “A little bit,” Andris replies, standing at the edge. His tousled brown hair waves in the wind as he looks out pensively, surveying the scene. It’s a landscape Andris knows well, as a prominent Latvian artist and

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Agnese Kleina questions Latvian identity with her bilingual self-published magazine, Benji Knewman

root — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 23:41:18 +0000

I bound up the stairs and am greeted by a smiling dark-haired woman, who’s standing at the door. “Come in,” she says, and the door clicks behind us, muffling the sounds outside like an air-lock. Welcome to Agnese Kleina’s personal habitat, a sumptuous collection of paintings, clothes, bookshelves, and antique furniture. “Friends say it’s like

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