a huge amount of my appreciation of color combinations, proportion, genre mixing and pattern play came from studying any photos I could find of his runway shows (remember, this was pre-Style.com). in a fashion world of huge shouldered alpha women his women were quiet, artistic, gentle and seemed to have a strength of wisdom..
- Scott Schuman
describe your graduate collection: i was in Paris and i started reading about Jerusalem’s Syndrome, where people go on pilgrimage package tours and some of them get so overwhelmed by being there and they get this religious feeling and it turns into a psychosis. there’s a whole list of syndromes like taking their bedsheets, going out looking biblical and preaching. i found that really lovely and it’s complicated because they call it a syndrome but who are we to say they’re not having a wonderful time.
if you weren’t a fashion designer who would you be?: maybe a monk? i fantasise a lot about being a housewife, cooking and cleaning but to a higher level.
i come from a fine art family background and when i chose fashion they were really mad as they thought it was not a serious art but now they’re really supportive.
describe the moment you realised you wanted to be a fashion designer?:when i was young, and went to weddings, i really loved wedding dresses and always wanted to make them more beautiful.
if you could go back in time and experience any fashion moment, what would it be?: i really like tidy and feminine clothes so i'd go back to the 50s.
where do you see yourself in ten years time?: i haven't really thought about it! i'd love to be involved in textiles.
- Luke Brooks - Fashion Knitwear
i've been so excited about this for a while. i love getting recognised for my work and not what i wear, as its what I'm most proud of.
- Hayley Hughes
i’ve been doing this half-tucked shirt thing a lot lately. it always takes me ages to get it just right. all this talk of tucking in shirts reminds me of this old commercial on tv where a bunch of guys talked about different ways they tucked in their shirts. there was the full tuck, casual half tuck, and the quarter tuck.
- Camille Rushanaedy
it's human nature-- [...] one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. i think the following rules will cover most cases:
i. never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
ii. never us a long word where a short one will do.
iii. if it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
iv. never use the passive where you can use the active.
v. never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
vi. break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
- Orwell, 1946
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menswear, rings, white/cream/tan colours, odd pairings, finding the perfect white semi sheer t-shirt, layer shades of grey, invest in a classic coat, with futuristic high backs, wear your thigh high socks over sheer tights, layer slips under dresses and skirts and let them peek out, i want a large raincoat too, built-in sleeves tied around the waist, and summer camp too with the bungee cords and backpack buckles on the waist and tye dye, capes!, granny-ish booties, socks socks socks, drapery, grandpa steez, dad pants, what they'll be wearing in grunge country this Fall, odd earrings, slouch, 100% supersoft silk, short, loose straight fit, raw hems, asymmetric and with drapes, camp counselor sandals, wool, monochrome, updating the classics, wear them with slicked-back hair, sew crop top/s, white or skin-coloured or pearl sequins, 'give time to make your art' - on tee = ?, tee - 'karl who?', woooo rope tee,
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Ramona’s not a waitress
she’s got flesh and skin and bones
she fills your cup, and you fill hers
cos at work she is at home
yes she may be a robot
but she’s more human for it
she knows to love the things she does
happy without more shit
i don't get what is wrong with discovering this song cause of that film... you don't need a reason to like a song, if you like it, you like it, if you want to be a Nazi about i'm pretty sure you're just some sad virgin
- Youtube, three weeks ago
in 2009, Scarlett Johansson covered Buckley’s ‘Last Goodbye’ for the soundtrack of He’s Just Not That Into You, PJ Harvey knew him personally and in the song ‘Memphis’, she takes lines from the song on his unfinished album, ‘Morning Theft’, and in her own words reflects on Buckley’s death: ‘in Memphis…die suddenly, at a wonderful age, we’re ready to go.’ Rufus Wainwright, whos career had barely started when he met Buckley, wrote ‘Memphis Skyline’ in tribute to him, singing ‘then came Hallelujah sounding like Ophelia, for me in my room living, turn back and you will stay, under the Memphis Skyline.’ Wainwright has also recorded his own version of ‘Hallelujah’, which appears on the soundtrack for the movie Shrek. Duncan Sheik also wrote and recorded the song ‘A Body Goes Down’, from his 1998 album ‘Humming’ in response to Buckley’s Death. Steve Adey wrote a song tribute entitled ‘Mississippi’ on his 2006 album All Things Real. the song contains the lyrics ‘Until the morning thief steals the humming of the Lord’ - a reference to Buckley’s song Morning Theft. Willie Nile’s On the Road to Calvary from his 1999 album Beautiful Wreck of the World was written as a tribute to JB. Juliana Hafield has written two songs related to her grieving for JB, ‘ Trying Not to Think About it’ on her EP Please Do Not Disturb and Until Tomorrow on Beautiful Creature.
Thom Yorke saw JB live during the recording sessions of the band’s second album The Bends. he claimed that Buckley’s performances had a direct impact on his vocal delivery in Fake Plastic Trees. Chris Cornell, wrote a tribute song entitled Wave Goodbye on his first solo album Euphoria Morning. 2007 marked the 10 year anniversary of JB’s death. his life and music were celebrated globally in May and June of that year with tributes in Australia, Canada, England, France, Iceland, Israel, Ireland, Maceconia, Portugal, and the US. many of his family members attended the various tribute concerts across the globe, some of which they helped organise.
this is a classic. i first heard this when i was hitch hiking in New Zealand when i was 19. i'm 54 now,,, oh my! i've seen some good concerts through my years,, Led Zep a couple of times, Elvis in Vegas in 70, Bowie in LA in 73, The Who in 72, Jefferson Airplane in 70, Jethro Tull a couple of times in the early 70s..some good music back then.
..we met when we were almost young.. Marianne was Leonard's first love. she was a Norwegian girl.
re Dappled Cities - The Price: i reckon i heard this song on the radio about fifty million times and every single time i heard it i found something new, something unexpected, something i hadn't heard before. they are adventurous and irreverent and intelligent songwriters who seem to have this magically never-ending packet of tim tams but instead of tim tams it's ideas and instead of being magically never-ending it's just because they are really talented. you know what i mean?
re Bon Iver: i love the self awareness in the line, 'this is not the sound of a new man or crispy realisation.'
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i reckon the mother travelled back through the portal and she is the only person who doesn't grieve like the others after her son's death at the end. i think the English and Science teachers also were involved in this whole time travel thing, since they knew things like Cellar Door that would only reveal itself later in the film. great movie. get the DVD and watch the deleted scenes, they change a lot.
ok, first of all, none of you have gotten it completely right. if you bother to go to the webpage and poke around, you will find out about the Living Receiver, The Manipulated Dead, Manipulated Living, etc.. it's all in the book, "The Philosophy of Time Travel".
yes, they have made an awesome flash site that explains 95% of it if you watch the movie, go to the webpage, watch the movie again, and visit the webpage again. (most of this explaination is from my knowledge of the book combined with the movie and previous discussions i've had, please feel free to add on or correct as needed. i do quote the book specifically several times without quotation marks.)
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some of my own words for a change..:
ignore the song and just read these lyrics and reflect upon how bloody good they truly are: 'lets dance to Joy Division and celebrate the irony that everything is going wrong, but we're so happy.'
- at my old work, Wednesday was 'cleaning shelves day'
- foreign $, buskers, other's book collections,
- you sat next to me in the school hall and from that day on i woke up just to see you smile.
- i've had lavendar icecream at a lavender farm.
- oh clothing by Gail Sorronda & Therese Rawsthorne, you are gaspworthy in person (i hope the shop assistants didn't hear me)
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i guess it is weird though, if you think about something for long enough it's like you're already working towards it, from the moment you thought of it, and then it takes on this natural progression on its own and before you even know it, you don’t even realise where you are because you don’t track every step that took you there. it kind of just happens? its never like 'oh wow, you’re here', because subconsciously, you’ve always been working towards it.
- Gail Reid
XX
describe your ideal world. it would definitely be bi-polar! and everyone would be on their own time! time would become an artificial construct and as everyone might already know, i’m always fighting the compulsion to meet my own time so ideally in a Utopian sense, there would be no concept of time. it would also be a bit fucked up like a Kubrick film, and a little bit David Lynch, but primarily it would be like something called a resource-based society where i would vanquish all monetary systems and instead you would exchange your talents so everyone would be working towards an actualisation of realising one's self, no paper-shufflers - just creative potential.
so, like a world of creative anarchy? yeah but creativity can mean a lot of things, so as long as you are evolving as a human being and not fighting the system, because in my world there would be no systems in place. oh! and i’m crazy about Zeitgeist! Zeitgeist 2 is the one with the resource-based society - you should Google it and totally post it on Pedestrian! [Ed Note: as you wish Gail.]
- Gail Reid
inspired by Yohji Yamamoto and Courreges early on, she began selling accessories to different shops as a hobby while she was studying, on top of her jobs in various retail stores and freelance styling. 'i used to get a buzz from sourcing materials, the creative process and finding out what different people responded to,' she says.
that buzz turned into a full-blown passion, and escalated when she won the Mercedez-Benz Start-Up Award with her graduate collection in 2005, which allowed her to show at Australian Fashion Week for the first time. fast track nearly five years later and Gail can’t imagine her life without her label.
'there’s a misconception that is there is limited opportunities in the industry,' says Gail. 'if you’re willing to work hard, be proactive and persistent and do it for the right reasons, you will create your own opportunities.'
- Scott Schuman
describe your graduate collection: i was in Paris and i started reading about Jerusalem’s Syndrome, where people go on pilgrimage package tours and some of them get so overwhelmed by being there and they get this religious feeling and it turns into a psychosis. there’s a whole list of syndromes like taking their bedsheets, going out looking biblical and preaching. i found that really lovely and it’s complicated because they call it a syndrome but who are we to say they’re not having a wonderful time.
if you weren’t a fashion designer who would you be?: maybe a monk? i fantasise a lot about being a housewife, cooking and cleaning but to a higher level.
i come from a fine art family background and when i chose fashion they were really mad as they thought it was not a serious art but now they’re really supportive.
describe the moment you realised you wanted to be a fashion designer?:when i was young, and went to weddings, i really loved wedding dresses and always wanted to make them more beautiful.
if you could go back in time and experience any fashion moment, what would it be?: i really like tidy and feminine clothes so i'd go back to the 50s.
where do you see yourself in ten years time?: i haven't really thought about it! i'd love to be involved in textiles.
- Luke Brooks - Fashion Knitwear
i've been so excited about this for a while. i love getting recognised for my work and not what i wear, as its what I'm most proud of.
- Hayley Hughes
i’ve been doing this half-tucked shirt thing a lot lately. it always takes me ages to get it just right. all this talk of tucking in shirts reminds me of this old commercial on tv where a bunch of guys talked about different ways they tucked in their shirts. there was the full tuck, casual half tuck, and the quarter tuck.
- Camille Rushanaedy
it's human nature-- [...] one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. i think the following rules will cover most cases:
i. never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
ii. never us a long word where a short one will do.
iii. if it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
iv. never use the passive where you can use the active.
v. never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
vi. break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
- Orwell, 1946
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menswear, rings, white/cream/tan colours, odd pairings, finding the perfect white semi sheer t-shirt, layer shades of grey, invest in a classic coat, with futuristic high backs, wear your thigh high socks over sheer tights, layer slips under dresses and skirts and let them peek out, i want a large raincoat too, built-in sleeves tied around the waist, and summer camp too with the bungee cords and backpack buckles on the waist and tye dye, capes!, granny-ish booties, socks socks socks, drapery, grandpa steez, dad pants, what they'll be wearing in grunge country this Fall, odd earrings, slouch, 100% supersoft silk, short, loose straight fit, raw hems, asymmetric and with drapes, camp counselor sandals, wool, monochrome, updating the classics, wear them with slicked-back hair, sew crop top/s, white or skin-coloured or pearl sequins, 'give time to make your art' - on tee = ?, tee - 'karl who?', woooo rope tee,
XXXXXXXXXXXX
Ramona’s not a waitress
she’s got flesh and skin and bones
she fills your cup, and you fill hers
cos at work she is at home
yes she may be a robot
but she’s more human for it
she knows to love the things she does
happy without more shit
i don't get what is wrong with discovering this song cause of that film... you don't need a reason to like a song, if you like it, you like it, if you want to be a Nazi about i'm pretty sure you're just some sad virgin
- Youtube, three weeks ago
in 2009, Scarlett Johansson covered Buckley’s ‘Last Goodbye’ for the soundtrack of He’s Just Not That Into You, PJ Harvey knew him personally and in the song ‘Memphis’, she takes lines from the song on his unfinished album, ‘Morning Theft’, and in her own words reflects on Buckley’s death: ‘in Memphis…die suddenly, at a wonderful age, we’re ready to go.’ Rufus Wainwright, whos career had barely started when he met Buckley, wrote ‘Memphis Skyline’ in tribute to him, singing ‘then came Hallelujah sounding like Ophelia, for me in my room living, turn back and you will stay, under the Memphis Skyline.’ Wainwright has also recorded his own version of ‘Hallelujah’, which appears on the soundtrack for the movie Shrek. Duncan Sheik also wrote and recorded the song ‘A Body Goes Down’, from his 1998 album ‘Humming’ in response to Buckley’s Death. Steve Adey wrote a song tribute entitled ‘Mississippi’ on his 2006 album All Things Real. the song contains the lyrics ‘Until the morning thief steals the humming of the Lord’ - a reference to Buckley’s song Morning Theft. Willie Nile’s On the Road to Calvary from his 1999 album Beautiful Wreck of the World was written as a tribute to JB. Juliana Hafield has written two songs related to her grieving for JB, ‘ Trying Not to Think About it’ on her EP Please Do Not Disturb and Until Tomorrow on Beautiful Creature.
Thom Yorke saw JB live during the recording sessions of the band’s second album The Bends. he claimed that Buckley’s performances had a direct impact on his vocal delivery in Fake Plastic Trees. Chris Cornell, wrote a tribute song entitled Wave Goodbye on his first solo album Euphoria Morning. 2007 marked the 10 year anniversary of JB’s death. his life and music were celebrated globally in May and June of that year with tributes in Australia, Canada, England, France, Iceland, Israel, Ireland, Maceconia, Portugal, and the US. many of his family members attended the various tribute concerts across the globe, some of which they helped organise.
this is a classic. i first heard this when i was hitch hiking in New Zealand when i was 19. i'm 54 now,,, oh my! i've seen some good concerts through my years,, Led Zep a couple of times, Elvis in Vegas in 70, Bowie in LA in 73, The Who in 72, Jefferson Airplane in 70, Jethro Tull a couple of times in the early 70s..some good music back then.
..we met when we were almost young.. Marianne was Leonard's first love. she was a Norwegian girl.
re Dappled Cities - The Price: i reckon i heard this song on the radio about fifty million times and every single time i heard it i found something new, something unexpected, something i hadn't heard before. they are adventurous and irreverent and intelligent songwriters who seem to have this magically never-ending packet of tim tams but instead of tim tams it's ideas and instead of being magically never-ending it's just because they are really talented. you know what i mean?
re Bon Iver: i love the self awareness in the line, 'this is not the sound of a new man or crispy realisation.'
XXXXXXXXXXXX
i reckon the mother travelled back through the portal and she is the only person who doesn't grieve like the others after her son's death at the end. i think the English and Science teachers also were involved in this whole time travel thing, since they knew things like Cellar Door that would only reveal itself later in the film. great movie. get the DVD and watch the deleted scenes, they change a lot.
ok, first of all, none of you have gotten it completely right. if you bother to go to the webpage and poke around, you will find out about the Living Receiver, The Manipulated Dead, Manipulated Living, etc.. it's all in the book, "The Philosophy of Time Travel".
yes, they have made an awesome flash site that explains 95% of it if you watch the movie, go to the webpage, watch the movie again, and visit the webpage again. (most of this explaination is from my knowledge of the book combined with the movie and previous discussions i've had, please feel free to add on or correct as needed. i do quote the book specifically several times without quotation marks.)
XXXXXXXXXXXX
some of my own words for a change..:
ignore the song and just read these lyrics and reflect upon how bloody good they truly are: 'lets dance to Joy Division and celebrate the irony that everything is going wrong, but we're so happy.'
- at my old work, Wednesday was 'cleaning shelves day'
- foreign $, buskers, other's book collections,
- you sat next to me in the school hall and from that day on i woke up just to see you smile.
- i've had lavendar icecream at a lavender farm.
- oh clothing by Gail Sorronda & Therese Rawsthorne, you are gaspworthy in person (i hope the shop assistants didn't hear me)
XXXXXXXXXXXX
i guess it is weird though, if you think about something for long enough it's like you're already working towards it, from the moment you thought of it, and then it takes on this natural progression on its own and before you even know it, you don’t even realise where you are because you don’t track every step that took you there. it kind of just happens? its never like 'oh wow, you’re here', because subconsciously, you’ve always been working towards it.
- Gail Reid
XX
describe your ideal world. it would definitely be bi-polar! and everyone would be on their own time! time would become an artificial construct and as everyone might already know, i’m always fighting the compulsion to meet my own time so ideally in a Utopian sense, there would be no concept of time. it would also be a bit fucked up like a Kubrick film, and a little bit David Lynch, but primarily it would be like something called a resource-based society where i would vanquish all monetary systems and instead you would exchange your talents so everyone would be working towards an actualisation of realising one's self, no paper-shufflers - just creative potential.
so, like a world of creative anarchy? yeah but creativity can mean a lot of things, so as long as you are evolving as a human being and not fighting the system, because in my world there would be no systems in place. oh! and i’m crazy about Zeitgeist! Zeitgeist 2 is the one with the resource-based society - you should Google it and totally post it on Pedestrian! [Ed Note: as you wish Gail.]
- Gail Reid
inspired by Yohji Yamamoto and Courreges early on, she began selling accessories to different shops as a hobby while she was studying, on top of her jobs in various retail stores and freelance styling. 'i used to get a buzz from sourcing materials, the creative process and finding out what different people responded to,' she says.
that buzz turned into a full-blown passion, and escalated when she won the Mercedez-Benz Start-Up Award with her graduate collection in 2005, which allowed her to show at Australian Fashion Week for the first time. fast track nearly five years later and Gail can’t imagine her life without her label.
'there’s a misconception that is there is limited opportunities in the industry,' says Gail. 'if you’re willing to work hard, be proactive and persistent and do it for the right reasons, you will create your own opportunities.'
