Interview // Tam Ara

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AA : What are your life essentials - What do you carry with you at all time?
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T : Well, I consider my handbag to be a small supermarket, where anything can be found ! But the basics are: phone, purse, keys, lip balm, handkerchiefs and chewing gum.
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AA: Who was your most previous text/call to and what about?
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T: One of my latest calls was with my grandma that lives far away and it was about wishing each other Merry Christmas.
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AA: Last meal you would eat?
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T: Anything from my favorite restaurant in Prague!
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AA : Most influential person in your life?
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T: Me? No, really, to be honest, I do not know ! Many people influence me, starting from my family, continuing with my friends, teachers etc. and ending with shop assistants in the stores I visit often.
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AA: Tried and true methods against creative block?
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T: Travelling, being on the move, changing environment. This gives me a different perspective and often enough space to get in the creative zen-zone.
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AA: What are some inspiration things, designs, artists, music, sites that you find yourself re-visiting often?
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T: Streets and the vibe in them, watching and listening to people. Various fashion and interior designers and architecture. Books and lifestyle magazines. From style, I love everything about art deco, middle eastern ornamentation and Scandinavian minimalism. I really enjoy visiting galleries with paintings from the 20th century, especially the first half.
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AA: If you could have 3 people over for dinner, dead or alive, who would you invite ?
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T: Sigmund Freud, Hercules Poirot and Sherlock Holmes (although the last two are fictional)
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AA: Favorite cities? Why?
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T: Definitely Copenhagen. It is my dream city and I wish to live there for at least a while. The
reason is that I feel that everything there is in harmony.
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AA: Favorite drinks?
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T: Green tea, ginger tea, rose lemonade, extra brut prosecco and gimlet.
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AA: Likes/dislikes? (just a short list, one word answers)
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T: Likes - dogs, the sea, autumn, cities and city walks, airports, a fireplace, plants, great food and drinks, a nice evening with my boyfriend, yoga, detective movies, reading magazines and novels, sleeping, wool and cashmere, sewing, long summer evenings, friends.
Dislikes - feeling cold, insects, spicy food, pain, meadows (I am allergic to grass), 60´s style and fashion, polyester and acrylic, herd behavior.
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