The ITALIAN DISPATCH By Eric J Lyman

The ITALIAN DISPATCH By Eric J Lyman

✍️ Beauty and the Seven Beasts

On treating a country as scenery and its people as stage props

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Eric J Lyman
Jul 07, 2026
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Kenar’s 1991 ad campaign, shot in Savoca, Sicily (R. La Spata, C. De Caro)

Thirty-five years ago this summer, New York fashion brand Kenar launched an ad campaign the company said was designed to call attention to the then-burgeoning AIDS epidemic. At the center of the campaign was a photograph: runway model Linda Evangelista, seven elderly Sicilian wido…

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