Balenciaga and the Flamenco
… classic silhouette with a train that floats away from the body and that can be pulled up to the shoulders or worn as a cape. The volumes and ruffles carry the movement of the dancer.
The lustrous petal emenate from the central stamen, growing into large petal clusters.
December’s Bergdorf Goodman windows still tracing through the memory.
His work is so structural. The shape of magyar seams and the use of large sleeve structures reminded me of Henri Moore’s sculptural monoliths, only Balenciaga’s monoliths have bows, tassels and cinched waists.
Boekie Woekie call themselves Europe’s oldest store for artist’s books. “A sculpture in progress” is how they describe themselves; one that has been emerging since …
A red door and one member of the 74th precinct New York’s [other] finest…
I tore it liberally from one of those old gallery print catalogues one finds in Argosy Bookstore on 59th street.
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