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...must question why our greatest thinkers, namely Darwin and Freud, totally miss the love boat. The key element of falling in love that the complexity of science overlooks is just that: falling in love. Even the notion of “falling” evokes the idea of losing position, declining in value or ceasing to resist a temptation. All of these connotations are clearly based on loss of control. So it’s intriguing that we’ve chosen the word “falling” to describe our ascent—or descent?...
...Spade's notion that something as everyday as a handbag should tell a story--easy summer afternoon, for instance--springs from her mother's Kansas City, Mo., closet. "She had clutches, oranges, pinks, chocolates, huge pearl buttons," she says. While an editor at Mademoiselle in the early 1990s, Spade found little on the market that lived up to her mother's collection. So in 1993 Spade began sketching boxy totes in her Manhattan loft and buying burlap for her bags from a potato-sack manufacturer found in the Yellow Pages. "One [fabric supplier] said to me, 'Honey, you look like...
...fashion cues, Kawakubo, who had come to design from textile advertising, looked to masculine dress, street culture and her Japanese heritage for inspiration. While other designers were cutting and draping their silhouettes, Kawakubo was slashing and shredding and twisting and sculpting hers. In everything she created, she challenged the notion that fashion was meant to beautify or to be beautiful...
Kawakubo doesn't believe in the notion of designer as celebrity and shuns the press, preferring to let her work speak for itself, an idea that is perhaps once again ahead of its time. --By Kate Betts
...says he was a slave to the Martha aesthetic until he realized that in addition to running a restaurant, he was working as the unpaid stylist of his life. The 37-year-old "cured" himself by "deconstructing the notion of the American Dream home." He and his wife, a chef, sold their home and restaurant in Michigan and moved to Maine, where Ho founded Rescue magazine. After two issues, Rescue has a circulation of 45,000, indicating that there are others like him. He says his current abode does not resemble a tear sheet from a shelter magazine...