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Comfort Food

Comfort Food

Sustenance steeped in centuries of ritual and tradition.

celebrateCaren MartineauJuly 9, 2018food, style, funeral, funeral food, death warmed over, funeral potatoes, funeral cake, jai, kolliva, irish wake cake, johnny cakes

Going Out In Style

Going Out In Style

For fashionistas, there’s no better time than the now to start thinking #preparingtoprepare.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 26, 2018fashion, style, sendoff, party, fashionista, funeral

Dressing the Dead

Dressing the Dead

A career in fashion leads to her calling in all things end of life. But for this Ph.D., it makes brilliant sense.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 20, 2018fashion, style, Pia Interlandi, shroud, transformation, dressing the dead

A Sacred Death

A Sacred Death

Death is rarely a romantic notion, except, of course, in the hands of one of literature’s greats.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 14, 2018art, style, flowers, emile zola, zola, rebecca louise law, Rebecca Louise Law, Zola, film, albine, Albine, Death of Albine, death of albine, suffocated by flowers, suffocation, Emile Zola