The beginning of IN HER GENIUS
What is Feminine Genius?
There’s no elevator pitch for it.
Its secret and unique roadmap is hidden between the lines of these conversations.
Tiziana Ghiggia - opening horizons
The acceptance of one’s path and circumstances leads to an unimagined journey through life.
Amber Kalejaiye - not a woman
When being called “woman” doesn’t feel aligned…
Eleonora Matarrese - once upon a time, today
Eleonora is known in Italy as la cuoca selvatica, the wild cook. The name holds more mysticism and truth than one imagines.
Marta Pozsonyi - 1, 10, 1000 women in one
Of all that you need to realise anything, is the will to do it and the belief that you will make it happen.
Fran Braga Pereira - protecting the future
The world needs protectors of the wild and beautiful. Franci is one of them - but no she doesn’t embrace a sword nor wears impenetrable armour. Instead, she uses science…
Jessica Rose Lewis - life in chapters
A snapshot of the past, current and future chapters of this dynamic woman that is Jess. From muse, to mum to landscape designer onwards…
Mere Õie Kalle - the reality of fantasy
What if some fantasy books are but tales of real worlds and real people (and non-people) ?
Carly Dela Cruz - eating the world
Don’t you just love those women who are voracious about all things life and culture?
Lucia Lantero - the power of one woman
What does a young Spanish woman, Haiti and Persephone have in common? … This is the story of a woman who is doing what others (who should) did not dare.
Jennifer Marsiglia Pastrana - an ode to the matronas
Sometimes the work is simply about recognising the importance of someone. And in our society, we don’t do it nearly enough. Read this ode to the Matronas…
Julie Qiu - following the thread of curiosity
IN A HALF SHELL, from creative outlet to international oyster expert. How Julie came to develop the first course in the world for Oyster Sommeliers.
Anna Bazhenovskaya - talent is work
If I told you that talent must be cultivated, that it’s not a given at birth. Would you believe it? … This photographer has a say or two about it. Read on…
Dainty Smith - carving her own life
Art-making is exercising faith. Meet this inspiring, larger-than-life, Burlesque performer whose life reminds us that every time we exercise freedom, we also set others free.
Renata Soukand - between disciplines
Renata Soukand made of her very own nature, a flourishing career as ethnobotanist.
Kate David - creating gardens of dreams
Almost as if by magic, she turns lifeless yards into the exquisite garden of your dreams. Kate’s own dreams were seeded at a young age, but their sprouting only came after many years…
Nicole Renee - myth of beauty… rewritten
The job of beauty is a world where the most beautiful is often disregarded - unless raised to stardom. And yet, I’ve always found the lives of models being utmost interesting and fascinating and, dare I say, full of surprises.
A model is a world of her own… which isn’t accessed through her beauty, paradoxically. And this is one of those worlds…
Tiffany Hamilton Atkins - translator of feelings
Just like about everything nowadays, yoga too is filled with people teaching a practice they don’t embody. And I have always been particular about the teachers I choose, because again: not everyone is a teacher only because they call themselves so.
Finding Tiffany in a studio in Hackney has been profound.
the genius of my mother - Elena Bogdanovich
One evening, I set myself up to interview my mother like I do with other women, except in person and with a bottle of prosecco between us. That evening she left the unidimensional corner of motherhood I’ve locked her in since I was born 35 years ago, to became a tridimensional, multifaceted woman.
Paola Martinenghi - eternal next project
I don’t believe in failure. That’s all that stayed with me of everything she said during a walk at the Flower’s Market in London on a Sunday morning. And since then, I wanted to know, how does one live when failure isn’t part of her vocabulary?
Jess Zafarris - curiosity over judgement
Meet the archeologist of words. Jess to me is the embodiment of a woman who thinks for herself. She doesn’t take for granted the words being thrown here and there in our society but goes to the spring of things… the place where original thoughts may be found.