Yesterday P & I saw Sex and the City. The fashion was fabulous (but of course) and the jewelry was inspiring. I was a bit disturbed by some assumptions in Charlotte’s Mexico scene and Miranda’s apartment hunting scene. Those things aside, Sex and the City–the movie was campy, good fun.
Months ago, I wrote about feeling compelled to design oversized jewelry and how the theatre and performance aspect of couture fashion is a significant source of inspiration for me. In the field of fine art jewelry, we often talk about the relationship of jewelry to the body. I suppose my connection is more indirect. It’s a given that jewelry has a relationship with the body because it lies on the body. I’m more interested in how people in general and women in particular connect with their ideas of identity (individual and group) through their choices of adornment. For me, fashion and jewelry are elements of the same equation.
So right now, I’m:
- listening to Felix Laband’s “Sleeping Household” on his Dark Days Exit album
- thinking of a community project (to spruce up the traffic circle near my street)
- thinking of all the small beads that I did well, and would like to do over as very big beads.
