The nineties sold us unity:
bright sitcoms,
Benetton colors,
commercials where everyone smiled
as though inequity had been resolved.

But the decade bled on screen—
a Black man beaten on asphalt,
a truck driver dragged from his cab,
bomb dust in Oklahoma,
children hunted in a school corridor.
Unity was the costume;
violence was the stage.

Then came a Black president.
For a moment,
the story looked complete.
"Post-racial," they said,
as though history had closed.

But the mask split.
Social media tore out the gatekeepers.
The hate that had been muted
found its tongue,
found its profit,
and screamed into the feed.

Division pays.
Unity does not.
Violence is systemic,
holistic,
from home to street to state.
Silence makes it whole.

The ethic remains:
If it is wrong, you stop it.
Otherwise the cycle turns,
profitable, endless,
calling itself America.

“Ever since I started this job and anyone asks how I’m doing, I always say, ‘I’m great!’ ” Maayan Zilberman excitedly explains. And why shouldn’t she? The former Lake & Stars lingerie designer, who has since founded confections lineSweet Saba, happens to have the sweetest career around. Concocting a literal visual feast out of her Park *****, Brooklyn, kitchen and Fort Gansevoort Meatpacking pop-up shop, the Israeli-born polymath uses her background in sculpture and a biting sense of humor to create her vibrant, indulgent delicacies. Think sugarfied tubes of lipstick, rap mixtapes, and Rolex watches—with their raw handiwork and dead-on wit, these in-demand pieces match Zilberman’s equally enticing wardrobe. Hardly barefoot in the kitchen, Zilberman teeters about in her workspace in vintage Betsey Johnson Mary Janes, while throwing on a customized Adam Selman pearl-laced apron to protect her Prada skirts andProenza Schouler knits. Here, the dazzling candymaker reveals how she has always been more En Vogue than grunge, why she never forgoes a perfect press-on manicure, and her plans on taking Sweet Saba herbal.

From Jerusalem to Vancouver

I was born on a kibbutz, where the first clothing I had was a mix of unisex hand-me-downs, so I was given a pretty blank slate. When I lived in Jerusalem we were surrounded by several sects of Orthodox communities, and the fabrics associated with each group were inspiring to me. During those years, designer brands were becoming popular, and the only place I was seeing this was in the shuk [market] where one could find imitation Calvin Klein and United Colors of Benetton next to tzitzit and shawls. I think it was in the early ’90s that I first understood how to mix my ethnicity with fashion and food.

Also, one of the most influential books of my childhood was Color Me Beautiful, which the women in my family took very seriously. I learned at the age of 6 that I was a “Winter” and haven’t veered off course since. I still have the book and love to pull it out at parties. Later in high school in Vancouver, grunge was the big trend and there wasn’t much room for my sensibilities in that environment—even when I wore my Revlon Blackberry lipstick and grunged out with irony. I was always far more En Vogue and Versace than the Pacific Northwest could handle.

Taking Cues From ’90s New York City Street Style

When I first got to New York, when I was 15, one of the first things I discovered was all the music I could get on Canal Street. I used to buy mix CDs from girls in monochrome outfits and big name-plate earrings. They pointed me to Fulton Mall in Brooklyn, and that’s where I finally got pants that fit right and jewelry that reflected my personality—a departure from the stuff I’d received for my bat mitzvah.

A shift in style for me meant a tougher, more confident look, where a short skirt is a reference to an era, not a call for attention. Music and lyrics played a big part in teaching me about how to dress and how to feel feminine. I had a Versace quilted skirt that I wore a lot—it made me feel like the supermodels in the ad campaigns: Cindy, Claudia, Stephanie, et cetera. I also had a Jean Paul Gaultierdouble-breasted pinstripe suit that I’d wear casually. In fact, I’m still wearing most of my clothes from those days: Betsey Johnson floral dresses, Donna Karanbodysuits, a metallic Byblos pouf skirt, and a grommeted Pelle Pelle jacket.

Lingerie Beginnings

I studied sculpture at the School of Visual Arts, and for a year at the San Francisco Art Institute my major was “new genres,” a very ’90s thing. Right after I graduated from SVA, I did an artist residency with Ilya Kabakov at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como, where they also manufactured some of the world’s most beautiful silks. A tour of their factory opened my eyes to a potential dip into fashion, but it wasn’t until I met a pair of women in New York City that same year looking to start a lingerie brand that I took a chance on garment design. I bought a bunch of bras and took them apart and figured out how they were put back together. I cofounded The Lake & Stars in 2007 with the desire to make a brand that was in line with the story I wanted to tell as an artist. Lingerie was a tool, a structure that gave me rules so I could tell a sci-fi tale while inherently delivering romance and *** appeal.

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To be in McLaren MTC,
That really would be cool,
I hope this competition's real,
Not an early April fool.

A dedicated petrol head,
Who's driven an F1 car,
A Benetton in Spain last year,
Not a Prost, or Jaguar,

Would love to see the inside track,
See inside a first class team,
To sit and sip the atmosphere,
Would fulfil a long held dream

To be sat there in race control,
Just as the race is run,
Aside from being a privilege,
Would really be such fun.

So in picking out a winner,
It's very clear to see,
You need to look no further,
The one to pick is me !

lines mark boundaries
scratched by gunship
cannon fire
crossed regardless by
their smoke .

preserved on haze made
horizon from concrete
ministries bunkering
a fissionable peace.

avant garde fighters
control as shoeless
fashionistas
brokering fear in a
'retro' style of blades
and system spooks.

working poor garb
in fake labels
preferring sim-culottes
to any daring
protests against
themselves.

we are all Benetton
and on message hating
colour or hating the
hating of colour.hungry
habits of the two tones
chimed by the 'we all bleed
the same' brigades.

shop the same, perhaps.

standing in queues behind
logos made of corporate
programming dependant
on the modern gunship
smoke territorying our
lives.

we are all under arms.

Once, Ossan Calypso and Jan Bragel
Presbyter 1568-1625; Hungary Photo
of Ocultius / Extract from the Cave /?
Ancient Greek: ogere [o] ogaaga [-] -
This island is known as Atlantis, Odyssey
and California. Calypso Zeus
will resist running on Callipose
after trying to merge his home
in his visit to Italy for the pre-mercury
angel for seven years, unlike Oreo tools.
The Odyssey will be explained
to Kallipo, but when he sings
in a sweet voice before moving
around the gold coat before passing
in front of the cloth. Meanwhile,
fire, poplars, cypress trees, owls,
owls, circular clouds are a smell
of paper that enters the sea and enters
the ocean and the dogs face purple
streams. In the second half of the 4th
c. AD Halifis, who started a pearl
mud around Eurom, Gozo, in the cave
of long tradition. With the support
of the traditions of California, California
and the Odyssey, there is a cave
supported by Kelimas, I, Ozigya
or Fascia, possibly connected to Atlantis.
Malta and Ugia is the largest island
in Malta, the Gozo Islands. Aslus
was named Alvinin Neil, Grasmatis
Ezez, Ozia Polyvius and for seven
centuries accused Homer of Benetton's
estate, where Georgian EStrogen Strasbourg
of Hyeoni and other parts of Ogia Strabo
meant "when the ocean was too far away",
the island of Ozia. "shows that Shariah
and Oziga are in the Atlantic Ocean."
which has clearly demonstrated that
what is happening in the Atlantic Ocean
has been created. "The description
of Plutarch's Plutarch's geography,
also known as Ojia, without any objections,
the writer, regardless of the image of Homer,
begins to go to the ocean, five days
in the coastal areas of Ogian Island,
the island and the ocean. The Zeus,
but the next child should be an excuse
for so many seafood and shaman,
the other part of the sea today,
the Oggaya of the sea everywhere
not far from his orbit 50 00 W. Hamilton,
Orita The Kepler Opera, the continental
"Astronomical Flop" equivalent of Atlanta,
Ratan, United States was used for: CU
Reem hybrid Unik Kalyanji "Oji"
in Hungary SER Cave and Calypso
Ene tugs of Bruggel Elder 1568-1625
Ogeia / Oggear [o] Oggea [-] - This island
is known as Atlantis, Odyssey and Calypso,
returning to Merceon's intrigues trying
to marry the seven-year-old Oudea house,
Atilla Calypso, MAC Angel Tools OH Joe
Iausa complains that the Ulysses'
demonstration must be released sitting
in Calypso. He attacks the Odyssey,
but stands, walking to the golden coach
before singing. With a sweet voice.
The surroundings around the cave, FIRE,
Aspen, here is the smell of Saru, Owl,
Owl, Cross, Coral, which succumbs
to the waves running in the sea and the dark
purple dark stone; and Pearl is a stream A,
has been suspended around the gentle
meadow of Gozo, the cave of the long
tradition of Calypso, IV century BC.
The California tradition, supported
by Kelimas, inaugurated by Euromer
in the second half of this year, is a cave
of Kellipos and Odyssey, which I did.
The oases or phagas were probably
related to the drowning of Atlantis.
The modern Maltese tradition and Ogaya
are the largest island of Malta, the island
of Gozo. Eskilos Olgianos Nilos
was appointed Secretary of the Byzantine
Assessment of Eustate, who held the other
part of Chios Stadiou and Ogi of the bad
geographic heritage, Ogia Polyviou
responsible for seven centuries after Homer.
The sanctuaries and herbs located
in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
suggest that when the ship "Strabo"
leaves the ocean, the island of Oia
is "Ogia". This is the case in the Atlantic
Ocean. "Plutarch's Plutarch's description
of Plutarch is not an objection, as Ogia says,
even if the writer does not start looking,
he will go to Oggi Island on the lake
starting with a photo of the ocean hostages
that will be added.