Where oh where could my combination lock be? It’s in none of the usual places, and none of the unusual ones either. How provoking.
A few days ago I picked up a copy of Argyle Magazine in my physiotherapist’s waiting room. It’s a twee “lifestyle quarterly” for rich people the Aryan master race, apparently. I took a picture of the cover with my cell phone:
“Triumph of the Will: Business Suits for the New Economy” — really? Really really? As in the 1935 Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” directed by Leni Riefenstahl? Apparently so.
Argyle Magazine offers the final solution to your wardrobe quandary: razor-sharp tailoring! The accompanying photograph replicates the visual style of the Riefenstahl film so exactly that it could practically be mistaken for a still from the original. I read a book about Leni Riefenstahl last year and I recognize that she made important innovations as a filmmaker. But I think it’s tasteless to appropriate Nazi iconography to push “the powersuit for the modern day”. As long as similar atrocities are occurring in the world, and as a sign of respect for the victims of the Holocaust, we shouldn’t minimize the importance of WWII by borrowing from a Nazi propaganda film as a shock tactic to sell more lifestyle magazines.
Sorry to preach. Here’s a picture I took of my parents’ dog. He’s a piano virtuoso!
