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Fabric Vocabulary You Never Knew
I used to subscribe to a word-of-the-day email service, my lazy version of reading the dictionary. Very slowly. Out of order. In any case, one week they had a theme of vocabulary related to textiles, but they focused on the non-textile definitions. I myself had not been aware of some of the secondary meanings to...
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Duct Tape as a Textile
New York Magazine brought an annual event to my attention I had no idea existed, but I wish I had in high school: namely, a Duck Tape “Stuck at Prom” contest. Costumes were judged based on workmanship (30%), originality (30%), use of colors (15%, accessories (15%), and quantity of Duck Tape used (10%). In addition...
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Chanel’s Silent Movie
I’ve probably watched more silent movies than many of my peers (and possibly my peers’ parents, for that matter), and though I very much enjoyed the concept and spirit of Lagerfeld’s homage to Chanel, something was off. There was the flickering “film,” the hazy Holga-esqe framing, the deliberately choppy frames, ruby-lipped (and sometimes mustachioed) men...
![Viktor & Rolf's Online Fashion Show Viktor & Rolf's Online Fashion Show](http://www.threadforthought.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/Viktor-and-Rolf-invitation-290x290.jpg)
Viktor & Rolf’s Online Fashion Show
An update to my earlier post about the much anticipated V&R online show “Funny Face” (a.k.a. “Shalom”), here is the link to the Spring / Summer 09 show itself: http://www.viktor-rolf.com/index.htm As previously stated, I love me some Viktor & Rolf. Though this was not my favorite show of theirs by far, I still thought...
![Viktor & Rolf Meets Funny Face Viktor & Rolf Meets Funny Face](http://www.threadforthought.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/Viktor-and-Rolf-layered-collars-290x290.jpg)
Viktor & Rolf Meets Funny Face
I am a huge fan of the avant garde designers Viktor & Rolf; I remember being introduced to them at an exhibit in the Museum of the City of New York (one of my favorite museums, a neglected gem in Spanish Harlem); the man’s style button-down shirt with the waterfall of collars peeling open (shown...
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