A Summer Set: Comfort and Ease
Pauline Durban
Ask Me Anything event online Monday
Folks,
I got invited to participate in a website called Ask Me Anything (www.amafeed.com) It's a cute site that invites people to post a topic and then be available to members as they write in questions. Next week they are hosting a week of fashion discussions and my AMA will start on Monday, February 26th at 11:00 PST.[...]
Maximizing Minimalism Fashion
Back in the early 1970s I lived in a group house in Berkeley with two roommates and one married couple. The wife in the couple, Donna, was an aspiring designer. But the pieces she created were the polar opposite of the tie-dye and bohemian hippie garb of the era. Her dresses - and they were mostly dresses and tunic-like tops - were simply draped pieces of fabric in neutral colors that skimmed the body. Her husband commented that she was way ahead of her time and that women wouldn’t embrace this look until sometime in the future.
Stripes Happy!
We’re going to start looking at patterns and prints in terms of the style facets they each represent. Since we're in the dead of winter let’s bring in some cheer by starting with that most quintessential of summer patterns, stripes!
Stripes were not always representative of the sunniest of times or circumstances. In medieval times stripes were [...]
The Value of Authenticity and Repetition
Many years ago, as a young dance student at UCLA, one of my instructors demonstrated a movement performed by one of the notable postmodern dancer/choreographers. (I don’t remember who the dancer was but I’m guessing it was the incomparable Pina Bausch.)
She began the movement with her back toward the audience, and then very slowly and deliberately turned to face them full on, at which point she threw her arms outward and lifted her face toward the sky as if to say, “Here I am world!” And then she turned around, reversing the movement until her back was to the audience. And then she repeated the sequence again. And again. And again. And again… [...]