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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Multicolored Checked Cotton Dress By Pauline Trigère

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multicolored dress with extended long sleeves by pauline trigere photo by gail worley
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Pauline Trigère (1908 –  2002) was a Franco-American couturière. She was most famous in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, and designed novelties such as the jumpsuit, the sleeveless coat, the reversible cape and the embroidered sheer bodice. She reinvented ready-to-wear fashion, matching form to function with bold prints and architectural silhouettes to create a distinctly modern female aesthetic.
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Eye On Design: Bacon and Egg Sneakers By Converse

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The iconic breakfast pairing of Bacon and Eggs is set against a checkered tablecloth pattern, giving these Converse sneakers (1980s) a playful surrealist style. Kitschy sneakers such as these permit the wearer to advertise a favorite food on their footwear.
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Pink Thing of The Day: Pink Octopus Bestie Bottle

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Story and Photo By Gail Worley

Are you perhaps on the hunt for a fun and functional water bottle for your child? If so, check out this eye-catching new water bottle designed just for kids! The Bestie Bottle by Asobu is an adorable stainless steel kids’ water bottle featuring a decorative wrap on the bottle and an animal-shaped soft head on the lid! Oh, the cuteness.
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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Bill Blass, Pink and White Silk Shantung Ensemble

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bill bias pink gingham ensemble photo by gail worley
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Bill Blass (1922 – 2001) began his career as a designer f in the 1960s before establishing his own label in 1970. His early preference for bold stripes, checks, and plaids in allover patterns carried through his career in the 1990s. The varied scale of soft Pink and White Gingham silk shantung in this ensemble from the latter period adds dimension to its asymmetrical shape. The color and pattern combined with the apron-like silhouette present an idyllic image of motherhood.

Photographed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Exhibit In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.

bill bias pink gingham ensemble photo by gail worley

Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Juan Gris, Still Life with Checked Tablecloth

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Still Life with Checked Table Cloth
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Juan Gris (1887 – 1927), a master of disguised images, presents a table brimming with coffee cups, stemmed wineglasses, a large white-footed fruit compote (see from the side and from above) containing thickly painted grapes, a bottle of red wine, a bottle of Bass extra stout ale with its distinctive red diamond logo, a newspaper, and a guitar. Yet, Still Life with Checked Tablecloth (1915) has another equally compelling identity: a Bull’s head. The coffee cup at lower center doubles as the animal’s snout, black-and-white concentric circle at left is a “bull’s eye,” the bottle of ale is an ear, and the sinuous edge of the guitar is the horn. The letters “EAU” on the wine label, which ostensibly stand for “bEAUjolais” can just as easily represent “taurEAU” (Bull).

Photographed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC