PASSION FOR MONSTERS: NOTES

Parco dei Mostri (Garden of Monsters), a renaissance garden an hour's drive from Rome.
"Ogni pensiero vola" - "all thoughts flee".

Vincino Orsini, a warrior duke and poet, started arranging the garden in 1552.
Located outside the small town of Bomarzo, northern Lazio.
Villa d'Este at Tivoli.
Cerberus, a three-headed dog who guards the entrance to hell.

Demetria, goddess of the harvest.
Terme dei Papi, papal thermal baths outside Viterbo
"il sacro bosco" - the sacred wood

Happy Birthday Carine!

Mommy Roitfeld is 56!

Virgo (August 23 to September 22)

August 23 River Phoenix
August 24 Friedrich Hegal
August 25 Blake Lively, Claudia Schiffer
August 26 Prince Albert of Monaco, Christopher Isherwood
August 27 Mother Teresa, Tom Ford
August 29 Ingrid Bergman, Michael Jackson, Nicholas Tze
August 30 Geoffrey Beene
August 31 Richard Gere
September 2 Mark Harmon, Keanu Reeves
September 5 Raquel Welch, Herzog Herzog
September 9 Hugh Grant, Leo Tolstoy
September 10 Ryan Phillipe, Karl Lagerfeld
September 11 D.H. Lawrence
September 12 Me, Linda Gray
September 13 Roald Dahl, Claudette Colbert, Jacqueline Bissett
September 15 Agatha Christie, Prince Harry
September 16 Lee Kuan Yew, Lousi XIV 'Sun King', Lauren Bacall
September 18 Greta Garbo
September 19 Jeremy Irons, Carine Roitfeld
September 19 Twiggy
September 20 King Chulalonghorn, Sophia Loren, Maggie Cheung

I Don't Care

To A: I do, and I don't. You understand that don't you?

Happy Birthday, Carine Roitfeld

September 19th is Carine Roitfeld's birthday. She turns 55!

That makes her (like me!) a Virgo which is the sixth astrological sign, considered feminine and earthy. Virgo is compatible with Taurus, Capricorn, and Virgo. Virgos are also known for having a discriminating eye, a great attention to detail, and a preference for well tailored yet simple styles.