スティーヴン・フライさんのインスタグラム写真 - (スティーヴン・フライInstagram)「Shelley’s The Cenci was a daring story of incest and murder, strikingly reimagined by the great and mad Antonin Artaud amongst others, but Davide Cenci (pronounced Tchen-tchi) – while possibly related to the Cenci dynasty that so disgraced itself in the 16th century – has committed no crimes I know of, except perhaps one against language. See if you can make sense of what they say here on their website. Cut and pasted without alteration:- “In providing comfort for our customers, we have also learned not to be too comfortable with ourselves. Since we have found, after time, that the road we travel on is a road of discovery and that the arrival point is so desired initially is not a point we will ever reach nor want to.” I managed the first sentence without too much trouble but I will puzzle over that last one for eternity. It sounds like mere babble from the sickbed, but perhaps I’m missing something. Shush, Stephen – all companies, whether they’re in fashion, furnishings or finance inflict mad and meaningless mission statements on the world, it’s just something we have to put up with. Fortunately we can say that – this aberration aside – Davide Cenci have nothing to be ashamed of. They’ve been selling well designed and well made items to men and women in Rome, Milan and New York since 1926. The @davidecenciofficial NY store is on the Upper East Side, just two blocks up from where I had an apartment in the naughty nineties. Fond memories. Today’s two #fryties may not stand out from the crowd (unlike yesterday’s Tyrwhitt trumpet blasts of colour) but their understated style and quality charms well enough. One of the great things about ties, of course, is that you don’t have to try them on for size. Even socks might not fit when you get home, but a tie is a straightforward purchase that can be based entirely on colour, pattern and form. And if, like me, you are pretty much embarrassed by your body and how clothes look on you compared to the perfect models and Adonises whose images pervade our world, then a good tie can allow the little surge of self-confidence that makes all the difference.」6月6日 15時11分