It’s been a good weekend. Yesterday, I tried out a new style of yoga: yin yoga. It incorporates elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine with the aurvedic core of yoga, and targets fascia and connective tissue instead of muscles. Afterward, I hung out with my parents as we sunbathed in their driveway. The yard may have been covered with snow, and people may have been walking by wearing puffer hats and beanies, but dangit—the sun was out.


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Starting with studying classical Greek statues, she became obsessed with the soft flattery of clothes that “moved like water.” From there, she made her great step forward by cutting fabric on the bias (previously used only for collars) and, by doing so, created a completely new shape, which could be called free-form geometric. In her own words, it was ”to free fabric from the constraints that other cuts imposed on it.” She had found her road and, for the rest of her design life, she tackled the whole question of dress with an almost scientific rigour.

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