After the death of Nina Masó, designer and co-founder of the design publishing house Santa
THE VIRAL JERSEYS OF DELIA BARRY
Despite the fact that it seems to sting an awful lot and cause some sweating problems, the maroon wool sweater that Colin Farrell wears in much of the Banshee footage on Innisheerin has achieved notoriety, as did the cable-knit sweater before it. by Chris Evans in Puñales por el back or the extremely expensive cashmere sweaters that appear in Succession. Unlike these, Farrell’s cannot be bought, not even by raising several hundred euros, because it was created exclusively by an Irish octogenarian named Delia Barry, who was in charge of hand-knitting all the sweaters that appear in the film. Barry learned to knit at the age of seven but has only been doing it professionally for a few movies in the last decade. She claims that she gives her fees to a local NGO fighting cancer.
STILL ALIVE, AND KICKING
Raise your hand to everyone whose first response to the news of Burt Bacarach’s death a couple of months ago mused: oh, but was he alive? It is a common recurrence when important people of culture die at an advanced age and it is also the starting point of an interesting magazine, which is published online and on paper called Still Alive, that is, still alive. The header, directed by the American journalist Erin Somers, publishes (good) texts about figures about whom there is legitimate doubt about their survival. The first issue in print stars Tippi Hedren and also features Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Clint Eastwood, tennis legend Margaret Court, astronaut Chubby Checker and Jonathan the turtle, who is 190 years old and lives in the Seychelles.
YOKO ONO SE VA DEL DAKOTA
It must be the end of an era. Yoko Ono has quietly stopped living in the Dakota Building, which she moved into with her husband, John Lennon, in 1973 and never wanted to leave, not even after Lennon was assassinated on the doorstep in December 1980. The artist, who is not in good health, has moved permanently to the almost 2,500-square-meter farm that she and Lennon bought in 1978 in the Catskills, in upstate New York, and where she already celebrated her birthday last month 90th birthday in February. At the moment, he has not put the four-bedroom apartment in which he lived in the Dakota for sale, nor the rest of the apartments that he had bought over time in the famous building on 72nd Street that appears in The Devil’s Baby and which also lived in Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall and Leonard Bernstein. Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, Madonna or Billy Joel did not live there, because the neighborhood community, with a reputation for implacability, rejected them.
ROSALÍA AND THE FAN ECONOMY
What happened last week in the Parque de la Exposición de Lima is not clear if it was a major example of how far fan culture goes or the most beastly copyright infringement in memory. The Youtuber IOA (Ioanis Patsis on his DNI) organized a concert for some 4,000 Rosalía fans, upset that Motomami’s tour did not go through Peru, in which he played the singer from Sant Esteve Sesrorives and made an almost exact replica of all the costumes and movements of the singer. The funny thing is that the public did not come to be surprised either, but to see to what extent the youtuber managed to copy a tour that they already knew to the millimeter thanks to the millions of tik toks and others that they have consumed on it. (Almost) no one expects the singer to sue IOA for violating intellectual property, despite the fact that she would have every right and would surely win on the street. Because in the fan economy, nothing is seen worse than an idol turning on his acolytes.
