Today I went to school with my sister. She attends FIT. I planned on visiting the school 's museum while she was in class. To my dismay the museum is closed on Mondays. Access Denied! What was I to do for two hours? I decided to find a Starbucks since I didn't want to
walk to any stores. The only problem was I couldn't find one which is surprising since there is a Starbucks on every corner! With no place else to go, I settled for Jamba Juice. I quietly read my magazine while I anxiously awaited going to see David Wolfe, Creative Director of The Doneger Group, at 4 o'clock.David Wolfe is what I would call...FABULOUS & HILARIOUS!!! He gave a presentation on Spring 2009. Here's the brief rundown...
Big Picture: Spring '09
- Age of Appropriation: Copycat Creativity
- There is talk of a law that will allow designers to copyright their designs for three years
- Poiret to Prada
- the notion of knocking off/copying vs. inspiration
- Chanel and the little black dress: "If Chanel had copyrighted that Audrey Hepburn would have been naked in front of Tiffany's!"
- Art Appreciation
- Dolce and Gabbana hand painted dresses
- The New Six Ages of Style
- Kid
- Teenage
- Fashion Ideal
- Safe & Secure
- Boomer Bubble
- Great Beyond
- Salable Excitement
- The Big Shift
- A fresh start
- To Design or Not to Design, that is the question
- Un-Design
- basics and classics
- retro, vintage, early 60s [[watch repeats of Mad Men on AMC at 12 a.m.]]
- Coloriffic Concepts
- Material Matters
- Avant Design
- Shape, structure: stiff (2010, 2012)
- Sharp shoulders
- The Neverending Trend Treadmill: Uphill Push
- hype moves merchandise
- Exhibitionism
- Eco-Aware
- growing more green
- Globe Trotting
- around the world in 80 (more or less) looks
- Elitism
- America
- patriotic pride
that Tilda Swinton was the chicest person at the Academy Awards. I think that it must be the age gap because personally I didn't like it. Let me remind you of what she wore in case you forgot.Lastly on my adventure today, while embarking on a voyage to the bathroom I discovered that FIT has escalators! What school has escalators??? Not mine [[VCU.]] My sister's explanation: Students aren't allowed to use the elevators, at least in that building. Why can't students use the elevator? That makes no sense to me. The school's alternative was to give students escalators so they didn't have to walk up the stairs. I would love to escalators at my school! The icing on the cake for my day was discovering that there was a Starbucks right across the street from FIT hidden behind a truck!
xoxo
GG
photos provided by the FIT, FSU, and Oscars websites
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