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I spoke to @vogueitalia on the advent of 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘳 Auction, the latest in a series of fundraising initiatives for Lebanon. Grateful for the vulnerability, friendship, and grassroots collaboration that opened it all up. To breaking and building in these times of collapse. Thanks to @franragazzi for supporting us and @saturnienne for your careful words. @1engua thank you for seeing me. Bidding is live on super-cedar.com through December 14

On the occasion of Fairuz’s 90th birthday, I’ve enjoyed reading Soulayma Mardam Bey’s portfolio @lorienttoday on her emblematic nature of the myth of Lebanon as a country. My longing to return has intensified over the past year, and moreso amidst attacks over the recent months. Lives shattered, and thousands of years of history erased with impunity. I’m sharing this for all those longing to return home this month, and to those left picking up the pieces. Power to our people. “We sing for those of you who resist within. Our wounds are intertwined with your wounds, and we sing for the children born outside their homeland, so that they may always remember that they are traveling,” — Mansour Rahbani in 1968, when the trio received the Key to the Holy City, awarded by the Jerusalem Cultural Committee in Exile. Fairouz - Sanarjou Yawman - فيروز - سنرجع يوما

𝖲𝗎𝗉𝖾𝗋 𝖢𝖾𝖽𝖺𝗋 𝖠𝗎𝖼𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇 is the online extension of Super Cedar Sale, a fundraising initiative held in Milan on November 4 - 5, 2024. The sale featured a curated collection of thousands of rare and iconic pieces from some of the world’s most renowned fashion industry luminaries - including the entirety of Marni creative director Francesco Risso’s (@asliceofbambi) personal archives. Super Cedar Auction will include a selection of 21 significant archival lots representative of a contemporary history of fashion spanning the last 30 years. Ranging from original early Martin Margiela to seminal collections by Miuccia Prada, Azzedine Alaïa, Raf Simons and more. 🔻 Auction live from December 4 at 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET - December 14 at 12:00pm EST / 6:00pm CET on 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛-𝚌𝚎𝚍𝚊𝚛.𝚌𝚘𝚖 All proceeds directly benefitting mutual aid efforts in Lebanon. 🇱🇧

🔻 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧 🇱🇧 Join us for an exclusive charity sale with all proceeds in support of Lebanon relief, featuring a curated collection of iconic pieces from some of the world’s most renowned fashion industry luminaries. Discover thousands of rare, collectible pieces — including the entirety of designer Francesco Risso’s (@asliceofbambi) personal archives. Featuring Designer, contemporary, unworn, archive, and vintage items, the sale will include menswear, womenswear, shoes, bags and accessories. 🔻 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 4 - 5 𝘓𝘢 𝘗𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘢, 10 𝘝𝘪𝘢 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰, 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘯 20121 𝘙𝘚𝘝𝘗 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘵 (𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘰). 𝘕𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘩, 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥.

The Cedar Trees of Lebanon, June Jordan

Words fail, law fails, meaning fails Dahye, Beirut, Shumon Basar, Bertolt Brecht

𝙻𝚎𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙵𝚞𝚗𝚍 Like so many Lebanese, my life and upbringing have been shaped by ongoing conflict and displacement. Over the past months, 🇮🇱 and the US have manufactured consent for their invasions of Gaza, and now employ the same justifications to launch a full-scale attack on a second front, in Lebanon. On Monday, 🇮🇱 launched its most deadly attacks on Lebanon since its 2006 invasion of the country, targeting heavily civilian populated areas throughout the South - hundreds of air strikes, systemic bombardments and psychological warfare. The updated known death toll from yesterday’s US-sponsored bloodbath across Lebanon stands at 558 martyred, including 50 children and 1,835 injured. Lives as vital and yours or mine, that have been reduced to numbers and statistics. As we approach an anniversary of the first year of an ongoing genocide on Gaza, how can we allow our lives to roll on unaffected? The veil we construct daily through the relative safety of our lives in Europe or America, and our participation in industries of culture and systems of capital that perpetuate a sense of remove are at odds with the ways in which our freedoms and future are wound up in the struggles and oppressions unrelentingly acting upon those elsewhere. We cannot allow the ongoing normalization of the suffering of oppressed peoples, be they Lebanese, P@lestinian, or of the diaspora of the Global South. The silence of my industry and my peers has been deafening. Throughout my life I have yet to call on my community, relying on the strength and resilience characteristic of my people in order to persevere through difficulty. But despite my necessary strength, or the power you perceive me to hold, Lebanese and P@lestinian people do not owe us their resilience. We owe each other our humanity, and life. Please share widely and directly, and consider donating, and resisting in the ways you can.

Four Years in Ten Years in Twenty Years, 2025 Score: a three-tier anniversary cake to mark four years of being a mother, ten years of being an artist, and twenty years with her partner. Ghislaine Leung, “Commitments” Curated by @almo.rtf at @kunsthallebasel

On view at 247 Paris @jofetto (b.1999, Naples, they/them) is an artist based between London and Naples. Jo Fetto’s visual practice seeks personal shelter and transports the viewer into a world of experience and artificial memory. Constructed through an alchemical process of analogue photography and darkroom hand printing techniques, Fetto crafts objects that serve as portals beyond the boundaries of subjectivity and the limits of body politics. Their work investigates the potentiality of visual scenarios to draw and re/enact feeling. Referring to pucundria, a Neapolitan term intimating a wandering in the realm of memory, getting lost in the metaphysical dimension - a process familiar to the artist’s formative sense of self since childhood - the act of recollection serves Fetto as a reminder of the worth of the fleeting nature of experience and the capture of making meaning within the frame of living. Pictured: Skull and Blossom, 2023

Ruth Asawa, Redwood (PF.1012), 1960

At magical @marni by @mrstreetpeeper