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“Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.”

- Mary Quant

Excerpt: Good-Time Girl

She was still on the stairs, now she reached the landing, and the ragbag colors of her boy’s hair, tawny streaks, strands of albino-blond and yellow, caught the…

“I don’t look so closely at women’s fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.”

- Tadao Ando

Analysis: Nicolas Ghesquière Innovates at the Legendary House of Louis Vuitton (The Wall Street Journal)

The Wall Street Journal delivers Nicolas Ghesquière his term report.

Lyric: See-Line Woman (1964) by Nina Simone

See-line woman, dressed in red, make a man lose his head.

Review: Naomi Wolf at the Singapore Writers Festival 2014

Naomi Wolf revisits some her most famous ideas with a rapt audience.

Recommendation: Intelligent Life (November/December 2014)

A excellent collection of fashion features makes the current edition of Intelligent Life a must-read.