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* Top lodging and dining picks for every budget * Unforgettable vistas from St. Peter's Basilica and the Spanish Steps * Great places to stop for pizza, gelato, or caff * Venues for classical music, opera, and jazz * Classic Rome: the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Forum * Opulent palaces, magnificent fountains, and romantic piazzas * More than two thousand years of art - from Etruscan artifacts to Michelangelo and Bernini
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Kate Sekules is a writer, clothes historian, mender and mending educator. A leading light in the visible mending movement, she has shown her work and taught the techniques and history of repair in universities, museums, and symposia, including New York University, Parsons, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Textile Arts Center, RISD Museum, Columbia University Chicago, the Costume Society of America, the Textile Society of America, and the UK Association of Dress Historians. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and academic journals. She is a PhD candidate in material culture at the Bard Graduate Center, New York; holds a masters degree in Costume Studies from NYU, and runs the Menders Directory on her website visiblemending.com. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter
