Spring makes me reflective in a slightly cheese filled way

[mister_six]

Sometimes I feel like the misfit kid sister who always shows up to family events with her hair a mess and sleep in her eyes and coffee stains on her shirt. I'm not quite sure who the older sister would be, though. But I'm the kooky one, for sure

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[mister_six]

Thanks. Hopefully, at my book party I will also be wearing Rochas. hehe. Yeah, Rochas was French. It's interesting, because he declared that he invented the square shouldered look (characteristic of the 1940's) first before Schiaparelli and Gilbert Adrain way back in 1931. And his influence was the costumes and architecture of the Indochine pavillion in the Colonial exposition. He's a very interesting quasi unscrupulous character who managed to stay open during the Occupation...however, I'm not sure he was necessarily a collaborator but I he certainly didn't suffer too much. The Occupation is actually such an interesting time to study in Fashion History, it's only been recently that research is coming out. Luckily, the French are leading the way. I think they needed time to deal with the pain and the embarrassment.

Anyhoo, I had actually thought about doing a show about India influenced fashion for Patricia's class. There was a really great Orientalism show at the Met like 10 years ago, but I don't think anyone has every done a global "ethnic" show. That would be really awesome.