Monday, December 15, 2008

Christmas cards!

Make linked to a great collection of Christmas cards Illustrator & cartoonist Roy Doty has made every year since 1946! There's some lovelies in there, take it from someone who also handmakes a Christmas card every year (that would be me) and knows how much work it can be!! I wish I had seen these before I did my card this year....I'm inspired now! Here are a few of my faves (hint: the interview is pretty great too!):


1964


1950


1963

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Friday, December 12, 2008

A really good quote


A wonderful artist I know (who is working on a great project about beauty, btw) posted about this on her weblog, and I'm just going to copy 'n paste the whole quote for you here too because I think it is SO great:
I'm going to tell a story. It's about biscuits. Please bear with me. A Buddhist priest told me this story, about how he used to be the chief baker in his monastery. He tried to make the best biscuits he could make - fluffy, buttery, warm, delicious biscuits. But no matter what he did, the biscuits were never good enough. Too dry, or too moist, never quite right. He was getting very dissatisfied and upset with himself. Then, he realized that he was trying to capture the essence of the biscuits that he had as a child and that the biscuits he remembered were an idealized, unreal version. The reason his biscuits never tasted good enough is because they never could be, but only so long as he tried to capture the essence of an unreal, imagined perfect biscuit. When he realized this, he decided to make the 'biscuit of today' not the biscuit of the past. It was imperfect, unlike anything he remembered as a young child, but the most delicious biscuit he had ever had, because it simply WAS. It was not idealized or perfected, it was just itself. And it was perfect in its imperfections, because there was nothing else it could be. Ladies, I think it is high time we all start being the biscuit of today. Love yourself as you are, perfectly 'imperfect.' And do not put a knife (or botulism) anywhere near your cooter.

I just really love imperfect things....and this is the kind of thinking that got me into the Virgin Knitters/Beginners Luck project. Everything is so much more special with lumps and bumps, don't you think?

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Lucy and Bart

More wearable art....Lucy and Bart:


Germination Day 1


Germination Day 8

Gotta say, these are my favorites, but maybe I just have a soft spot for clothes that change over time.....

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Another sweet knitting site

A friend sent me to this weblog: Simply Olive. Take a look at some of the pretty pics on her site:


yoko izawa necklace & ring


Sandra Backlund dresses


Okay, not all knit. Fendi Spring '09 dress

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Monday, August 6, 2007

veils



A post about veils. I don't really know anything about the website that inspired this post, but last year I was really interested in veils throughout culture and history beyond their religious use. The juxtaposition between the hidden and the displayed, public and private, and precious versus plebian makes the veil a powerful tool, if you ask me.

Other veil sites:
Wikipedia

The Painted Veil with Greta Garbo
How to make a veil
The Chap on veils (pic at top from The Chap)
Hats and veils in general.

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Friday, July 27, 2007

Bibliography & Image List

...please begin at the beginning here. Also to reiterate: this piece is © 2006 Kimberly Hall. Do not copy, steal, or reproduce without permission. If you're interested in my work, please drop me a line. Thanks.


Samples of landscape print and fading tumeric dyes I developed for my MA collection All Stories Have Endings at Central Saint Martins, 2006.

Bibliography

Antony, Rachael, & Henry, Joël (2005), The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, Melbourne, Australia, Lonely Planet Publications.

Barthes, Roland (1990), The Fashion System, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press.

Breward, Christopher (1994), The Culture of Fashion: A New History of Fashionable Dress, Manchester, UK, Manchester University Press.

Buttolph, Angela (2005) A Week of Dressing Dangerously, BBC2 [Television] 8 weeks, beginning August 17, 2005.

Davis, Fred (1992), Fashion, Culture and Identity, Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press.

Entwhistle, Joanne & Wilson, Elizabeth (2001), Body Dressing, Oxford, Berg.

Foster, Alicia (1999), Dressing for Art’s Sake: Gwen John, the Bon Marché and the Spectacle of the Woman Artist in Paris in Haye, Amy de la, & Wilson, Elizabeth, Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning, and Identity, Manchester, UK, Manchester University Press (1999) pp. 114-26.

Gale, C. & Kaur, J. (2004), Fashion And Textiles: An Overview, Oxford, Berg.

Gehman, Stacy, Body Mapping, [Internet] Available from: http://www.alexandertechnique.com/articles/bodymap/ [Accessed March 3, 2005].

Givhan, Robin (2004), Thread & Circus, The Washington Post [Internet] Washington, D.C.: February 22, 2004 p. D01. Originally I found this article here: Available from: [Accessed August 18, 2005] but the most correct location is linked above.

Friese, Susanne (2001) The Wedding Dress: Use Value to Sacred Object in Guy, Ali, Green, Eileen, & Banin, Maura, eds. Through the Wardrobe: Women’s Relationships with their Clothes, Oxford, Berg (2001) pp. 53-70.

Hirschhorn, Thomas, Thomas Hirschhorn: Altar to Raymond Carver, Levy Gallery, [Internet] Available from: http://thegalleriesatmoore.org/publications/hirsch/hirschhorn.shtml [Accessed March 9, 2005].

Horn, Marilyn J. , & Gurel, Lois M. (1981), The Second Skin: An Interdisciplinary Study of Clothing, Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company.

Leslie, Esther (2005), Response to Hauser in Breward, Christopher & Evans, Caroline, Fashion and Modernity, Oxford, Berg (2005) pp. 171-174.

Llewellyn, Nigel (1999) Elizabeth Parker’s ‘Sampler’: Memory, Suicide and the Presence of the Artist in Kwint, Marius, Breward, Christopher, & Aynsley, Jeremy eds., Material Memories: Design and Evocation, Oxford, Berg (1999) pp. 59-71.

Lupton, Ellen, & Miller, Abbott (2000), Design, Writing, Research: Writing on Graphic Design, London, Phaidon Press Limited.

Potteiger, Matthew & Purinton, Jamie (1998), Landscape Narrative: Design Practices for Telling Stories, New York, NY, John Wiley & Sons.

Stewart, Susan (1999) Prologue: From the Museum of Touch in Kwint, Marius, Breward, Christopher, & Aynsley, Jeremy eds., Material Memories: Design and Evocation, Oxford, Berg (1999) pp. 17-36.

Thomas, Dana (2005), What Hubert de Givenchy Can Teach You About Fashion, Harper’s Bazaar (June 2005), pp. 168-171.

Troy, Nancy (2003), Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wollen, Peter, & Bradley, Fiona (1998), Addressing the Century:100 Years of Art and Fashion, London, University of California Press in association with the Hayward Gallery.

Zappia, Corina, (2005), For Once, Kajagoogoo Has Purpose, The Village Voice [Internet] New York: June 20, 2005. Available from: http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0525,zappia,65136,15.html [Accessed June 21, 2005].


Mid-development photo of Marriage Shirt performance produced while studying at Central Saint Martins, 2005 and working at Hussein Chalayan Studio.

Image Source List

Figure 1: Santoro, Alyce (2005) dress made from audio tape [Internet] Available from [Accessed May 20, 2006]. Images of Santoros work are viewable on here website www.alycesantoro.com. In my post this week I used this image instead of the original one I found as stated in my image list.

Figure 2: Hall, Kim (2005) beginning and ending images from Marriage Shirt, burlap, time.

Figure 3: Hall, Kim (2006) paperdolls from Wardrobe Swaps & Shares, coloured pencil on paper.

Figure 4: Chamberlain, Ann (1993) Romper con el Pasado, ceramics [Internet] Available from [Accessed May 20, 2006].

Figure 5: Parker, Elizabeth (1813), V&A object no. T6-1956 [Internet] Available from http://images.vam.ac.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_ixss_=&_ixsr_=mc1&_ixspfx_=full/f&_ixmaxhits_=1&_ixfirst_=1&_ixaction_=summary&_ixsession_=ds1akc1xikm&_ixiMAGE_=pcd852632020782-029 [Accessed May 20, 2006].

Figure 6: Hall, Kim (2006) samples from All Stories Have Endings, silk, cabbage, and latex.

Figure 7: Hall, Kim (2006) detail of cabbage dyed dress from the All Stories Have Endings collection, digitally-printed, cabbage dyed silk.


Appendices here

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