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Weekend Reading: Beauty, aging, and power dressing
Happy Halloween, all.
I’m just back this week from an amazing camping trip in Yosemite, where I snapped a photo of this lovely creature and his family. It was so refreshing, after weeks of staring at a computer screen, to take in all that glorious fresh air and scenery.
I have some big stuff to talk about next week.
Weekend Reading:
- Goodbye to Oscar de la Renta.
- Eye candy: Velvet ribbons in Saint-Etienne
- Ursula K. Le Guin on beauty, aging, cats, and dogs. “Beauty always has rules. It’s a game. I resent the beauty game when I see it controlled by people who grab fortunes from it and don’t care who they hurt. I hate it when I see it making people so self-dissatisfied that they starve and deform and poison themselves.”
- The first Dahlia to be added to our flickr group and it’s a beaut!
- The Paul Poiret name is for sale. Ugh.
- Don’t miss our free download and tutorial on matching plaids and stripes.
- Power dressing (at least as depicted in hollywood) then and now. “‘Your clothes have to fit you,’ Lawson says. Period. To be a power dresser, he continues, ‘it has to look like you command the clothes, not that the clothes are commanding or wearing you.'”
- Because what’s better than coffee and sewing?
- How to win the creative lottery
For more links every week, you can follow me on Twitter, where I’m always posting interesting tidbits I find.
image above via colettepatterns on instagram
Comments
Natacha
October 31, 2014 #
Thanks for the link to the article on Ursula Le Guin, great read indeed and so true!
As for the velvet ribbons I think I have seen a book about this Saint-Etienne collection at the Merci concept store here in Paris after they held a sale-exhibition in the store.
And sorry but Chocolate and sewing is much better to me than coffee and sewing ;-)
Wish you all at Colette’s a great Halloween night!
Laurel
October 31, 2014 #
Thank you for including the Ursula K. LeGuin article, she’s an author I really enjoy. Her thoughts on remembering her mother are so perfect.
sj kurtz
November 1, 2014 #
The Poiret article was interesting. I saw a documentary years ago from the BBC (must have been early nineties) about fashion houses, and most of it was about licensing agreements. That it makes business sense (at least then, when there was a lot more money flying around) to invest in a house and designer for collections that cannot be worn and will never be sold to plump up licenses for fragrances and accessories that have nothing to do with the designs (think LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton).
What will Poiret smell like?
Denise
November 1, 2014 #
You visited one of my favorite places!!
Anna
November 2, 2014 #
Thanks for the reading by Ursula K. Le Guin, it was very authentic and inspiring.
Lisa
November 14, 2014 #
I really enjoyed reading the article on Oscar De la Renta. I love reading about thw world’s top designers and how they started. I find their stories interesting and it mak s me realise how great a hobby sewing is as it’s not just about putting pieces of fabric together and clothing your body, it’s a lot more, it’s art , it’s like a painting or a sculpture.
Just wanted to mention that, so I may continue reading the other links