Siska Lyssens | journalist

London-based journalist and editor. I contribute to Wallpaper*, Disegno, T: Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Art Arabia and other publications.

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I chose you and I’m never changing my mind

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Nobody should die to make our clothes, nobody should be enslaved to keep our prices low. Nobody should accept to pay less for a T-shirt than a coffee. Please people, be responsible in the way you shop, create, produce.

Credit: MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images

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Princesse Tam-Tam (1935). Artist: Anonymous. Poster. Richier-Laugier, Paris.

Josephine Baker only made a handful of films, but “Princesse Tam-Tam” is one of her most daring and outrageous comedies, a send-up of race- and class-conventions. It’s a parody of Pygmalion and Galatea: Josephine stars as a Tunisian peasant girl whisked off to Paris by a frustrated writer, and introduced to high society as “Princess Tam-Tam.” In its most famous scene, conspirators plan to “out” the “princess” – instead, her exotic dance brings the upper-crust crowd to its feet.

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My @wallpapermag feature on the photographer @athosburez exhibition in #Antwerp’s MAS for Antwerp Barok 2018 

https://www.wallpaper.com/art/athos-burez-baroque-photography-flemish-masters

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Nonsense Novels. Stephen Leacock. New York: John Lane Company, 1925. Early edition. Original dust jacket.

Nonsense Novels sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among other things. Here the close cultivation of cliché yields a bumper crop of absurdity and the utterly ludicrous turns up at every new twist of the tale. – NYRB

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Making a few signed original prints of A Guide To Making Your Mind Feel A Little Better, order through my shop becausehonestly.com ✨

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Andy Warhol Eats a Cheeseburger - “66 Scenes from America” - Jørgen Leth (1982)

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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

| Ernest Hemingway, A Movable Feast (via stoweboyd)

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VIA: ARREST US

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https://instagram.com/p/BSMa0TZjChY/

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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Maya Angelou (via thatkindofwoman)

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Interview with Xavier Lust, a Brussels designer, in his home and workspace for the January 2018 issue of @wallpapermag. Photography by @frederikvercruysse, Words by @siskalyssens. 

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Zadie Smith

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Gil Scott-Heron The Revolution Will Not Be Televised © 1974 - Flying Dutchman Records