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Inspiration
We did two shows so close together I didn’t even have time to mention the wonderful American Craft Exposition at the Chicago Botanical Garden…..thank you all who organized and attended the event, it was wonderful.
I did get a chance before heading off to our next two shows to attend the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institutes show,
“Heavenly Bodies”,
in two locations….at the Met as well as The Cloisters uptown.
Beautiful couture, inspired by beliefs larger than life. Ending soon.
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Fashion Inspiration/Part 2
We do tons of special sizing in our studio, and recently upgraded our mannequin collection to reflect current shapes and sizes of the female figure, as the way we push and pull our selves, and our diets and exercise regimes, change over time.
So it was interesting to see this show at FIT
The Body: Fashion and Physique
Pretty interesting……corsets for pregnant women? And their daughters? A corset that closed in the front liberated women?
Bustles? Rubber girdles? (I do remember the smell of rubber emanating from my mothers underwear drawer as a young girl!) Marilyn’s buttocks jiggling? Gasp!
My pics of mostly the fascinating underwear!
On thru May 5th
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Fashion Inspiration/Part 1
Items: Is Fashion Modern?
This show wasn’t really making me rush over to Moma for some reason, but I did
catch it a few weeks ago and found it more interesting than I thought. It’s really about
us, and the wearable things that have become staples in our lives, or have had cultural impact. Here’s a snippet of images…….hurry up, it closes tomorrow!
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Irving Penn
More inspiration, almost too much to handle, from our trip to the Met earlier this month. I know I know. I’m in a museum, taking photographs of photographs. But these images conjured up so many memories for me, I wanted to take them with me, my particular memories of the photographs of Irving Penn.
As a girl, I started receiving subscriptions to Vogue at a very young age, and it was my bible. It came into my room and brought me to a fantasy land of fashion, of where I wanted to be. It was my visual sanctuary.
My mother made all of my clothes when I was growing up, and after each issue arrived, it was followed by a trip to the fabric mills, to collaborate on trying to recreate the illusion of what I saw. All my aunts were in on it in their own ways. So many of these Irving Penn images from the 50’s and 60’s remind me of my mother and aunts.
Here’s a sneak peak. Show closes July 30.
And we got to play a bit. They had Penn’s backdrop set up that he used in his studio, so as my “photographer” was with me, I got to particpate.
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From the Beautiful to the Grotesque
Above, her own words, Rei Kawakubo. We had a chance to catch this show at The Met last week, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. So interesting to have a conversation from our very different perspectives……my background in fiber art in three dimension, my partner’s in fashion design Haute-Couture, with a very different main inspiration from Yves St Laurent; mine western looking east, his eastern looking to the west, in our young and formative years. Working together for all these years, the push and pull arrives at influences from both. This show is a must see if you are in town.
“Dressed for Defiance”, NY Times
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Creating and Expressing Personal Style
I opened Women’s Month at the Brooklyn Museum, to view two exhibitions of female expression. I went for Marilyn Minter, but I came away with Georgia O’Keefe.
Georgia O’Keefe
Never a huge fan of her paintings, I learned so much about the whole woman, her attention to the details of her life, how meticulous she was about her clothing, beautifully documented by the great photographers in her life.
Never knew, and blown away.
Many garments made with her own hands, many carefully chosen and cherished for construction, simplicity of design, and tactile feel of natural fiber.
Had a lunch break to avoid whiplash between these two powerful shows!
Marilyn Minter
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Antonio Lopez
Summer is the time to rejuvenate the body and the mind, and even though it was in the 90’s in Manhattan yesterday I slogged uptown to el museo for some inspiration, and was thrilled I did not put this trip off……
The Museum is gorgeous and very cool, and spending a few hours with this incredible artist’s work pushed all my creative buttons and was a nostalgia trip as well.
You have until Nov 26
Here’s a glimpse of Antonio Lopez:Future Funk Fashion
For more views check out the Idiosyncratic Fashionistas blog post,
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New Year Inspiration
It is always refreshing to put our own work aside for a moment and take in something else visually to kick off the New Year, and living in the New York Metro area there are so many great opportunities.
I’m so lucky.
So last week I checked this one off my list at Moma.
Picasso Sculpture
here are some of my favorites that inspired me.
Thru Feb. 7th if you have the opportunity.
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Weekend Update, Looking for Inspiration
We walked the streets of New York this weekend to see what was going on uptown in fashion, in display, something to move us mentally forward
as we begin the new year. The city itself is always inspiring, but the takeaway was, HANDMADE rules.
The pussy willows on Central Park South made us pause
As did the Dodo Boutique, with its fabulous wall of flowers
But the absolutely BEST was Vogue Knitting Live, if you are a fiber lover,
Met up with fellow makers, jeweler Cara Romano who incorporates fiber into her pieces
Long Island Livestock Co., who have a line of wonderful natural yarns, and truth be told I visit their farm whenever possible to see the gorgeous creatures, Llamas, Alpacas, Sheep their fibers come from
And the BEST of all Felt Makers, Miriam Carter, whose collection of Hats and Garment are beyond compare!
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Shopping Shearling in NYC
We are open here at Crafts at the Cathedral, on the corner of 110th and Amsterdam. Great atmosphere and a wide range to choose from, so don’t miss it
One gorgeous woman fell in love with this coat last nite !
And while you are up here, take in this beautiful installation by Xu Bing, “Phoenix”. Very inspiring!
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Black Friday Productivity!
The studio was open and buzzing away on orders, getting ready for our New York show next weekend, and mentoring a future intern?
Jane always comes for Thanksgiving and stays over to do something fun (last year it was fishing)
This year she wanted to make some toys to donate, so this admitted “hobby hopper” learned to sew in about 5 minutes under the guidance of the expert Toshiki!
And here it is finished, right before dinner!
But we did take a break to get some fresh air and walk among the fiber creatures at
Such a wonderful place, and they are having an Open House to visit Tomorrow, November 30!
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Art & Design in New York
New York City, there is just so much going on creatively in May that it is just bursting at the seams. There is Frieze New York, on Randalls Island, there is The International Comtemporary Furniture Fair, ICFF, at Javits, there is WANTED Design at the Terminal Stores on 11th Avene, to name just a few. And the mother of them all, The Whitney Biennial is on, which is the last one to be held in the historic Marcel Breuer building on Madison Ave. before the Whitney moves to its new location in Chelsea next spring. I was glad I went, to see the space so crowded with art that the new space indeed seems like a refreshing idea. Who was shown is another story I will leave to critics, but I have Craft in my soul so these appeal to me, thou I can’t really explain their inclusion in the show. For some reading on the show, The New Yorker , The Times, among many.
My Favorites!
Peter Schuyff
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