Aleppo may also boast the Arab world's most impressive souk, a sprawling network of noisy corridors and cramped stalls where, for the past seven centuries, every kind of spice, sweet, soap, silk, dried fruit, carpet, metal, jewelry and water pipe imaginable has been sold.
Silk threads (and silk ribbons).
A bedroom swathed in sweet-tempered, tea-green silk in the same Upper East Side apartment now has unexpected backbone: black Chinese tables and an unconventional headboard composed of towering 19th-century panels of French black and gold lacquer.
Cap-sleeved minidresses in parma violet lace and jackets appliqued with bows of silk ribbon were sweet rather than sexy.
But how do you make sense of an artist who, all the same time, could depict duchesses in black silk and skeleton brides, sweet royal children and bulls in space?
Other accessories: thin belts, colorful silk handkerchiefs and anything sweet with gamine decorations is in.
Lay your head down on your lavender silk pillowcase and have sweet dreams.
