[Random Fashion-spiration] Sometimes, when I'm browsing the Internet for inspiration for a photoshoot or a new pair of shorts or something else fashion-related, I always stumble across something that isn't.Like, for example, tonight. I came upon a poem, Gertrude Stein's "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso":
Shutters shut and open so do queens. Shutters shut and shutters and so shutters shut and shutters and so and so shutters and so shutters shut and so shutters shut and shutters and so. And so shutters shut and so and also. And also and so and so and also.
Exact resemblance. To exact resemblance the exact resemblance as exact as a resemblance, exactly as resembling, exactly resembling, exactly in resemblance exactly a resemblance, exactly and resemblance. For this is so.
Because. [full text]
It's a beautiful and haunting rhythmic ode, but, you know, not at all about fashion. Then I found this dance piece (via a friend's Facebook profile) by Lightfoot León Nederlands Dans Theater, set to a striking recording of Stein herself reading the poem.
Doesn't it all remind you of this piece from Haider Ackermann's Fall 2008 collection? Dark, romantic and mysterious, yet soft and pale.
Inspiration. Thank you, Internet.
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