Deeper & Freer

“Clothes, as crafted objects, are victim to the whims of stylistic fads, but ‘the artifice of Nature [i.e. the naked body] is supreme, no period fashions change it”, as the character of Leonello d’Este said in Angelo Decembrio’s On Literary Polish (c.1462).—Jill Burke, Nakedness and Other Peoples: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance Nude “When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.” – August Strindberg, playwright, 1849-1912 “I like me better naked. I don’t mean that in a vain way...When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don’t have any clothes on, it’s raw and you can’t hide.” -Parma Lakshmi