March 2012
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February 2012
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“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via daytripped)
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“It’s everything done right when everything (in my world) was going so wrong.”
– 9th on Helmut Lang (via cotonblanc)
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“Charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery...”
– Damir Doma
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The Wilhelm Scream
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We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it. (Oscar Niemeyer - “Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves,” Tom Dyckhoff, The...
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“The mind always tries to break out of confinement. It has tried every sort of...”
– William Carlos Williams, from a letter to John C. Thirlwall, 13 January 1955 (via proustitute)
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“Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to...”
– Ashtavakra Gita (via terramantra)
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“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be...”
– Nikos Kazantzakis
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“I saw your lips, your nakedness, the trees,
that dappled light. I dreamt of...”
– Luke Davies, from Totem Poem (via proustitute)
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It’s that “butterflies-in-your-stomach” feeling rushing in every time I think of this blog as a lil’ child I’m raising.
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I don’t feel too excited about fashion today, more fearful that people don’t necessarily want or need strong new clothes, that there are not enough of us believing in the same thing, that there is a kind of burnout, that people just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else, that the flame of creation has gone a bit cold, that enthusiasm and passionate anger for change...
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Your method is to work against the grain of fashion. Are you anti-elitist? We just try to do new things. That is the basic value of Comme des Garçons since the beginning, and until the end! It is not about elitism, or anti-elitism. We don’t abide by the rules. (Rei Kawakubo)
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You say you are a fashion designer, but many people call you an artist. Why do you think they see you as one? - I guess it’s because I endeavor to make clothes that didn’t exist before. (Rei Kawakubo)
“You are the drop, and the ocean,
you are kindness, you are anger,
you are...”
– Rumi (via terramantra)
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“I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case heart...”
– Rumi (via terramantra)
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