Corpus Magazine

With 156 million entries on the net in a fraction of a second, stones and beauty are a good match. They’re now attending to our health and our well-being. To know them better and keep our heads cool, here is a short history of our beloved gems.

Women were not buying make-up: they were buying freedom, and most importantly, audacity.

"It is through women and sports that the suntan made its entrance into the fashionable set.” Stéphanie Hussonnois-Bouhayati explores our not-so recent passionate relationship with the sun.

People have been brushing their teeth for 5,000 years. But the universal chore of scrubbing our gnashers twice a day is based on rather whimsical practices.

Soap may have been crowned king of hygiene in the 19th century, but he didn’t always take centre stage in the expert protocol of the bath…

The journalist Mathilde Bertier, exposes the incredible birth of scented candles. Decorative element, they have a special symbolism in Ancient Egypt or the Middle Age. The two epochs easily agree on their distinction and elegance...

Never has the sky been so blue, so deep, so fierce with heat.

"How was being in love? Awful. Spectacular. And awful. Especially considering the guy died, and I was 19. He was a lot older than me. It may be because he died that this thing is so beautiful, but anyway it’s very, very beautiful. It’s called pure love. After that, you love differently, you love for specific reasons. You no longer love gratuitously. Loving exists."

Daylight. The cold sky burdened with a beautiful whiteness. A stone village, a thousand leagues from anything, forsaken amidst the winds. The church-bell, at the time when the day fades away, jolts the frosted souls. The cabby says, “There’s only one reason to come all this way, and that’s to see Juliette Gréco.” She’s 86 years old, with just as many lives behind her. She says, “I’m really pushing it as far as life is concerned.” A conversation

That which transformed the face of the earth in the 1960s is now experiencing a serious reversal of fortune. And for good reason…