Archive for the ‘STYLE’ Category
Your Blog is F@*%^&# Fabulous!
Five Favorites Blogging is obsessive, egotistical, infanticidal and Oedipal. One is ever viligante and immersed, tied to the desk like a naughty lover. Then one day, you get the Bloggers’ Chain Letter and though faintly like the Plea from your Ugandan Uncle for Cash or the latest heaven-sent Money Angel…with this one you are forced […]
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The Costume Bleg
A bleg = blog + beg — i.e., using a blog to beg for information. Note: I beg here for what inspires YOU…MINIMAL OR MAXIMAL? GIve me silence, a white snowy expanse, an open infinity pool, a Rothko, a clear blue sky and sea and I am full or overstimulate me to the point of […]
Filed under: FASHION, NEW YORK, STYLE | 3 Comments
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Who is Dagny Taggart?
While judgment grows thick, while faith loses its choice, and while the people sit terrified, devouring their dinner, the media, and their feelings… there are those who do not allow good times to be by-gones, and instead, create. For the past ten years, the American culture has been driven by an obsession of luxury and […]
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Visionary Buckminster Fuller famously said, “I am not trying to imitate nature, I’m trying to find the principles she uses.” Come. If the “Design to Function” ratio of Nature is always brilliant, then we proclaim these four (plus ONE) playful and innovative inventors as MAGICIANS mixing the old principles of nature, simplicity, cooperation and synchronistic balance […]
Filed under: FASHION, HOME, MEN, NEW GREEN, STYLE, TRENDS | 4 Comments
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Drala. A Tibetan concept that translates to Beyond and Above Aggression. Blameless. Connected to the essential and transcendent powers of Nature. The Purity of Body. Red and black glossy swollen and passionate lips. Clothing as cocoons of protection. Hats made of found unlikely objects. Alexander McQueen’s Fall 09 collection was in full expression of invoking […]
Filed under: FASHION, PARIS Style, STYLE | 7 Comments
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