The Real Lives of Italian Women | 'Waste Landscape' in Paris | Smart Sensuality Values
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‘Waste Landscape’ Metallic CD Dune by Elise Morin & Clemence Eliard AOC Green Beings
Waste Landscape is on display in Paris’ Centquartre space in the Halle d’Aubervilles until September 11, 2011. Elise Morin (artist) and Clémence Eliard (architect) of SMALL MEDIUM LARGE design studio, in collaboration with the 104.fr, have collected 65,000 CDs, now representing throwaway technology and rubbish in our MP3 society.
The result is a 600 square meters artificial undulating landscape of metallic dune, a seductive and artistic eruption into our environmental consciousness — should we choose to receive it.
God, Women & Materialism
Heather Marks, Anja Rubik & Tatiana Kovylina | David Lachapelle | Vogue Italia October 2001 | Shoes Portfolio
God, Women & Materialism | Vogue Italia’s Smart Sensuality Values AOC News Musings
We share an interesting perspective on AOC mid-week, thanks to a post on the improvement of digital eyeballs at Vogue.com — which is a Modern values publication and website, whereas Vogue Italia is for Smart Sensuality types like us.
AOC|SN combined — with no marketing and only word of mouth support — are about 1/6 the size of Vogue.com in terms of monthly unique readers. BUT, on bounce rate, time on website and all critical thinking measures, we shine above Vogue.com — as we shine above most fashion websites.
Reality is that AOC is the Vogue Italia of fashion websites. I hadn’t thought of this idea until today, but it is a truism and a nice perspective on where we fit in the world of fashion and style blogging.
After the David Lachapelle Vogue Italia editorial, I share some of our most relevant statistical and analytical articles on fashion values types — Traditionals, Modern & Cultural Creatives — and my twist of the Smart Sensuality consumer, who is a hybrid blend of a disenchanted Modern with strong Cultural Creative values and a love of style and artistic, high quality design. Anne
Disenchanted Italian Housewives
75% of Italian Housewives Dissatisfied with Their Lives Says W'Women and Quality of Life’ AOC Sexual Politics
Anne here. In a moment of serious reflection, it seems that even I may be guilty of glamourizing the life of Italian women who declared themselves the unhappiest in Europe in a recent survey of 4,000 women by Women and Quality of Life, a think tank on women. The women surveyed lived in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and UK.
76 per cent of Italian housewives were dissatisfied with their lives, compared to 51 per cent in the UK, 53 per cent in Germany, 57 per cent in France and 63 per cent in Spain.
Half of Italian women said they regretted getting married and two-thirds regretted having children. This reality comes in a country with one of the lowest birth rates in Europe.
Italy ranked 74th in the 2010 World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report behind Malawi, Ghana, Vietnam and Peru. You get my drift.
The 2010 rankings (which can change dramatically from one year to the next in countries without a committed infrastructure to women) were Germany (13); UK (15); Spain (11) and France (46). France’s rank dropped precipitously in 2010, a dramatic change brought on by resignations of women in the Sarkozy government. The same will happen for the US (19) - for the first time ever in the top 20 — with women now largely gone from the Obama administration and fewer women in Congress than in 30 years, based on the 2010 elections. The US could easily drop back to 35-40 this year’s report.
