I've been talking about it a lot * the week of "I don't cares" overload
A string of opinionated random thoughts.
Love
Revered Louise Wilson’s film list. How many of them have you watched?
A Fashion moment: I attended Istituto Marangoni Miami’s end-of-year show that took place in Palm Court, in the heart of the Design District, dominated by one of Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Domes. Sounds fabulous because it was. More than 70 models wearing the final works of the graduating students walked out of the Eye to the beats of a live orchestra, not any, but the Miami Symphony Orchestra, directed by its director, maestro Eduardo Marturet. And if this wasn’t glorious enough, supermodel Karolina Kurkova closed the runway wearing a black and white ensemble and a 1920 silver-thread headpiece originally made for Josephine Baker on loan from the Parodi Costume Collection. I am sorry, but if you know me a little, you can hear Cinderella’s song So This Is LoveI need utterly impractical floor mopping shoes
Ken Sakata’s videos describing the difference between Japanese and Western dressing and why Japanese designers have been succeeding at designing for Western markets, but the other way around, not so much. The four pillars of Japanese aesthetics are suggestive, irregular, simple, and perishable. I keep going back to the chapter in D.V. dedicated to Japanese culture and having a moment of obsession with the famous Japanese scholar Donald Keene.
I don’t care
If the AC is too low for you, it’s in your best interest that the thermostat remains untouched.
For the Cannes Film Festival’s new last minute pulled out from their asses protocol policing women’s bodies. Dear white supremacist chauvinist racist Féstival de Cannes old farts, we haven’t believed not even for the 2 minutes that took to read the press release, that it was meant to avoid traffic jams on the red carpet.
If this is the season to go braless, and that horrifies you. Because there is no lace, no super fine fiber that will not suffocate me when it’s 96 degrees and 85% humidity season, and you can horrify the hell out of a lot of yourself in peace by looking the other way. Again, it is in your best interest.
About rubber flip flops, anywhere other than the trip to the mani/pedi salon, going in and out of the pool, or the shower at the beach club. I go Joan Rivers’ batshit crazy when I see them on the streets.
The sustainability debrief
Oh, the tariffs.
Just notice that whatever crap you but at Shein, Temu, Amazon will A- be more expensive B- they will not want to take it back C- the garment workers are being paid less, if that’s even possible, because the manufacturers are being squeezed into producing at cheaper prices. How’s that possible? The brands will NOT absorb the cost of tariffs changing at the rate that hormones are imbalanced in a menopausal woman; they’ll pay the manufacturers less and charge you more, they will not sacrifice their $.
How do you say it in Italian?
Rispulizzito, voce del verbo rispulizzire, is a PhD-level Tuscan expression that means “he cleaned up well” but with a slight sarcastic tone. We also say it in Urban Dictionary fashion when we refer to hillbillies.