The Mulleavy Sisters as Fashion DesignersWritten by Sher Matsen
If you’ve been following fashion scene, by now you’ve most likely heard names Kate and Laura Mulleavy. New to fashion world and hitting it full force, these two young girls are an inspiration for others. Without formal training but armed with determination, charm, and great ideas you reach your dreams. Sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy new Rodarte line is full of nostalgia capturing feel of 1930s in America. It was only last year that sisters Kate and Laura decided to launch their own label Rodarte. They were determined to cut no corners using only most expensive fabrics. Rodarte is based on strong American spirit. Fashion icons such as Carole Lombard were inspirational to their designs. The Rodarte line can be found at Mix in Houston and Kirna Zaberte in New York. 26 year old Kate and 24 year old Laura both graduated from Berkeley. Neither has any formal fashion training, only a passion for history of past. Both have always had an interest in designing clothing. Rodarte is named after their Grandfather a Zacatecan coal miner who immigrated to America during Mexican Revolution. The family’s linage is very important to both girls. They are also very close to each other which is why they make such a great team. These inseparable sisters have been in business a very short period of time when they got a break. The Mulleavy sisters introduced their small collection of silk dresses adorned with peacock feathers and Italian-wool evening coats. Their collections were as aesthetically pleasing as works of famous designers such as Calvin Klein. They certainly were most talked about.
| | Materialism and IndividualsWritten by Robert Bruce Baird
Perhaps I could make a lot of money by founding a Thinker’s Anonymous organization. It surely is rage to eschew thinking. Helping people achieve great things is worthwhile to your SELF. If you do not know your SELF you will hurt those you try to make do what you want them to. This macho control mechanism built into materialistic society is exemplified by professionals and experts who are giving drugs to manage 'money-trees' (students and Ritalin, or old people and ECT especially) and managing bureaucracies or saying they are 'just' as they lead us to in-'just'-ice: 1. War 2. Religion and divisive ethnic ideologies - rather than ecumenical spiritual goals 3. Hate for others and putting women in a second class status 4. Insisting on education to make others BE like them 5. Pursuit of power rather than LOVE and creativity It is summed up in words of noted journal The Economist in their millennium issue - they call what we have 'an inhumane bureaucracy' as they enumerate outcome of Napoleonic War's institution of 'standing armies'. Wholism is spiritual & ass-'holes' are not. Holism is not Wholism! This is a response to a person who wanted nuts and bolts of what I said in a detailed expose of Wholistic approaches that are in variance to way of many social programs and our overall bureaucracy. It is probably part of kind of thought that Beat Generation, Hippies, Cynics like Jesus and Goths or other drop-outs that ‘turn-on’ to new paradigms and alternatives, have been seeing since dawn of civilization.
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