Khiton Team

Nikolai Blinow of Ompowerment, whose work centers on burnout prevention and recovery, trauma processing (including EMDR and DBT), and executive and entrepreneur coaching, speaks of a particular kind of exhaustion—the one of high-achieving women that can’t seem to slow down . If you’re a woman in leadership who feels driven to keep going—despite feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or stretched thin—you’re not imagining it. Many women who are outwardly successful and deeply capable find themselves...

The work is hard Your fingers may bleed. But each cloth stitched together Brings together a community. A world, our future world Under one colorful quilt. The new quilt of humanity. ~Julia Myers Come, see the story of a beautiful garment If you would hold the end of one of Animana's contemporary woven shawls and unravel it, its long, ancient path would lead you down south, away from North America, through Central Americas, until the yarn would reach the interior of Argentina, the place...

Picture this: rabbit-skin glue simmering in a Massachusetts studio, its Renaissance-era scent mingling with gold leaf and hot solder, as Brian Lies builds a 14th-century Italian portrait ground for a single spread in Cat Nap. What begins as a kitten's cozy nap on a couch spirals into a dream-chase leaping across centuries—Egyptian reliefs in plaster, illuminated manuscripts on goatskin parchment, vivid stained-glass panels—all handcrafted by Lies in their historic techniques. In an age of...