Open Journal Montreal

…my advice: engross yourself in considerations of this particular article of body-oriented wear…

There are any number of discursive and rhetorical qualifiers I could affix or undergird to buttress the following remarks. They could include things like: some vernacular and mythic essence of flavela-bound Brazilian public life and the social solidarity of the multitude; historically-informed senses of community; the recent “emergence” of the latin global south; the globalization [...]

There’s enough writing on this page already, so I won’t add much, just this: I only numbered the project pages. Deal with it. =) This page just contains pictures from the [tag]cvp[/tag] vernissage, and notes about modeling and the mind bending-ness of making things in this way.

the three designers who collaborated on this piece all work, with Clayton Evans- [tag]Consistent Variable Project[/tag] co-founder- in a studio space called the Laboritoire Creatif. They make the collections on Indyish.com called Re-Gen, Pearls Before Swine, and Hastings and Main. They are very dear and friendly, but Diane didn’t know that yet when she went [...]

I do think it was quite brilliant to see that large sheet of green duck as something waiting to be de-and-re-constructed. I guess every designer did this to varying to degrees, but the folks who stripped and wove it saw something there that I didn’t. Speaking of seeing things that I didn’t, I love these [...]