Aspasia Karras
Editor-at-Large at Sunday Times
Editor-in-Chief, South Africa at Marie Claire International
Editor at Large - Sunday Times - eating a Hot Lunch and asking WTF is going on every week !
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2 weeks ago |
timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras
Hot Lunch Connecting nature, spirituality and a certain degree of uncertainty 06 April 2025 - 00:00 Long before the dance explosion, where the entire world and their grandmother are adept at the latest dance craze, there was a poster at Wits University offering a dance class for amateurs at the Braamfontein recreation centre...
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2 weeks ago |
wantedonline.co.za | Aspasia Karras
Ed's NoteThere is a danger in reading too much into the signs and portents sashaying down the catwalks. You could be led to believe all sorts of things that are not likely to become an eventuality in our lives. I, for one, do not believe that the asymmetrical, one-legged trouser suit is ever going to be a thing.
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3 weeks ago |
timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras
When the wives of Henry the Eighth hit the fatal note in the first round of “divorced, beheaded, dead”, the king of England found himself in want of a romantic partner. His closest adviser, Thomas Cromwell, was punting for a certain Anne of Cleves. Her charms and beauty were, according to Cromwell, a sure thing. I can’t remember why he thought she was a promising wife, but given the track record of the potential groom, it may have been a case of pure attrition.
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3 weeks ago |
timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras
Hot Lunch Didintle Khunou's teacher was right about her destiny on stage 30 March 2025 - 00:00 Didintle Khunou has just belted out the first few lines of Hey Big Spender, and I have immediately grasped the essential truth about her. I have the same certainty that her high school maths teacher must have had when Didi was 16 — that she was destined for the stage...
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1 month ago |
timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras
LAST WORD I have had the very good fortune of having been “Janed” in my life. This, for the uninitiated, is an experience whereby you are phoned out of the blue by Jane Raphaely’s assistant and secured for a lunch with the great editrix when she is in town. In this phase of existence — where everything you might imagine you need to know, and a great deal you do not, is instantly available in the palm of your hand — her services to our nation seem anachronistic and frankly quaint.
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