Hello and thank you kindly for visiting! On this site, you will find a portfolio of my selected published works of a non-academic nature. For a full commercial publication record, please visit http://mariana-bockarova.tumblr.com/ Thank you and enjoy! -Mariana Bockarova bockarov@post.harvard.edu
Italy Gone Rogue: The Digitization of High Fashion
Published in: VIVO Magazine; Summer, 2013. It was in the recession of 2008 when conspicuous consumption hastily disappeared from the fashion scene. As always, the collective perception of what was considered apropos had altered. Reserved yet abstruse, modest materialism would
The Death of an Icon, the End of An Era: Anna Piaggi
Published in: VIVO Magazine; Winter, 2013. In the wake of the recent death of famed Italian fashion icon and journalist Anna Piaggi, one hopes the message she personified will not soon be lost. The first time I saw Piaggi, I
In the Time of Wii, What Are We Missing?
When revisiting my childhood, the silver lining moments that glisten within my memory are these: Recollections of chasing school-mate friends in green grasses or jumping in and out of short-lived water tunnels created by a rapidly moving sprinkler, as large
In Good Company: Making Famiglia at F’Amelia
It’s in these humble beginnings of the summer months, I find myself most cherishing of company. Just as the Spring comes to a close, with buds permanently affixed for the long summer days ahead is the company of others largely
Rowing on the Canalasso: The History of the Regatta
There is a flowing entity which separates Boston proper from Cambridge, Massachusetts, known as “The Charles.” Each year in late summer, while strolling along, I find myself enamored by the sailboats that cluster like clouds in the sky, only to
The Science of Beauty
“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us