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What's got my attention this week #80
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What's got my attention this week #80

Links and recs to get you through the weekend

sam baker
Jan 10, 2025
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Matriarch and co-founder of Missoni, the iconic fashion house that brings beige-lovers out in hives, Rosita Missoni, died this week aged 93. She was creative director of Missoni Home well into her 80s.

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• Debbie Harry: “I’m pretty clean now, but I’ve still got a dirty mind.” £
• The case against budget culture.
• “Let’s get married.” Love this piece by

Laurie Stone
for
Oldster Magazine
on getting married in your 70s after 18 years together.
• The anti-social century.
• There have been a bazillion hot takes on Nicole Kidman’s latest movie, Babygirl, but I enjoyed Alexis Soloski’s in the New York Times, Is Middle Age Sexy Now? (gift link) The question mark is mine because I’m not convinced that’s the right question. And
Amanda Montei
on the impossible sexuality of motherhood and marriage.
• Love this from
kate lindsay
for embedded: you might just have to be bored.

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