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  • Geoffrey B. Small
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2007
    • 618

    Last edited by Geoffrey B. Small; 09-10-2014, 04:16 PM.

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    • Geoffrey B. Small
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2007
      • 618

      Haiti earthquake help

      Dear SZ'ers,

      Just like to take a quick moment to post-up a choice of links to send a few bucks or more to help the earthquake rescue and recovery efforts in Haiti. Every little bit helps and the need is definitely urgent as I'm sure you all know...



      • AmeriCares: https://secure.americares.org/site/D...campaign=Haiti

      • Doctors Without Borders: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=86019&id=1...53-r8DsWRx&t=1

      • Oxfam America: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85998&id=1...53-r8DsWRx&t=2

      • Yéle Haiti: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=86026&id=1...53-r8DsWRx&t=3


      Thanks for your consideration and help. If you have already done something, please pass this along to others...

      Best wishes,

      Geoffrey

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      • DRRRK
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2009
        • 1195

        Very good idea to post something here. I think we all can afford to spend a small amount of our income on a donation.

        For german members: http://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/index.php

        For european members:https://www.helpdirect.org/

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        • Fade to Black
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2008
          • 5340

          Right on Geoff...

          another site taking donations: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/

          There's some great stuff posted in this thread, I look forward to sitting down and giving it a good read. Thanks Mr. Small.
          www.matthewhk.net

          let me show you a few thangs

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          • MaxM
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2009
            • 380

            Originally posted by ledger
            By the way Geoffrey I forgot to say that I really do like the image on the invitation.
            Is it the actual invitation or just some kind of announcement?

            Or did he send you one?
            .

            WTB : http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...ad.php?t=16112

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            • delphine
              Member
              • Sep 2009
              • 82

              Originally posted by MaxM View Post
              Is it the actual invitation or just some kind of announcement?

              Or did he send you one?
              I was wondering the same thing. It seems very private and exclusive, and yet it's posted here so..

              Mr. Small, is this just an announcement letting us know you'll be showing in Paris? Or are folks in this forum invited to come view your collection? I'm assuming the former as it states that it's by appointment only.

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              • MaxM
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2009
                • 380

                Could someone please set matters straight?
                .

                WTB : http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...ad.php?t=16112

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                • hobo
                  Senior Member
                  • Jul 2009
                  • 301

                  I think that Geoffrey was just posting the invite for your information and to keep you informed as to how the industry works. Unfortunately, it is not possible to open the showroom to the general public (even SZers). Designers, press and buyers all have to be very protective of their work and therefore the showroom is a very protected place. Having said that, the SZers will be represented at many of the showrooms, including Geoffrey's, by Faust, Lowery, Fuuma, DHC, and of course the old hobo, so fear not, I'm sure that you'll get regular updates.

                  Incidentally, I was thinking of starting a photo blog for you guys to get a little behind the scenes action. If anyone is interested, let me know.
                  "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." — Oscar Wilde

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                  • MaxM
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2009
                    • 380

                    Thank you for the clarification hobo

                    Originally posted by hobo View Post
                    Incidentally, I was thinking of starting a photo blog for you guys to get a little behind the scenes action. If anyone is interested, let me know.
                    Well i wouldn't mind at all
                    .

                    WTB : http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...ad.php?t=16112

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                    • sshum88
                      Senior Member
                      • Dec 2007
                      • 531

                      M, would be interested to see this. Will need some text for context. Great if you have the time.

                      Originally posted by hobo View Post
                      Incidentally, I was thinking of starting a photo blog for you guys to get a little behind the scenes action. If anyone is interested, let me know.
                      Originally posted by eat me
                      If you can't see the work past the fucking taped seams , cold dye wash or raw hems - perhaps you shouldn't really be looking at all.

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                      • Geoffrey B. Small
                        Senior Member
                        • Nov 2007
                        • 618

                        Madness and loneliness of an independent designer 1/3

                        Dear friends on SZ,

                        Thanks to everyone for your very kind posts, PM's, and email responses and comments to the 1st fabric story installment (). I am working on the next one, but right now need to deal with the always impossible January schedule of SS2010 production work obligations and creation our new AW2010-11 men's collection which must be completed and in Paris in less than 2 days. Suddenly thought it might be interesting to share on SZ a few of the quick weird thoughts that flash through the mind, an inside look into the madness in the mind of what some of us go through each time we must give birth to a new collection that will be shown in Paris...




                        The Madness and loneliness
                        of an independent designer


                        "Work is done,
                        and then forgotten,
                        and so
                        it lasts forever"
                        -Lao-Tsu

                        Wow..
                        the beautiful images
                        and posts
                        that have appeared
                        recently
                        on the Yohji thread
                        at SZ,
                        the melancholy
                        of looking again
                        at the great work
                        done by one
                        of the great masters
                        and groups
                        of our time,

                        and how fragile
                        it can become
                        once one has lost
                        his independence...

                        The painful
                        fact that he
                        is not alone
                        in his fate--

                        indeed
                        an entire generation
                        has already,
                        or

                        is on its way

                        to the same
                        destiny



                        Now I
                        must face
                        the great void
                        alone
                        once again,

                        the blank abyss
                        of trying
                        to find
                        what
                        to do
                        with
                        the next collection.

                        And how to earn
                        the next six months
                        of work,
                        survival,
                        and a place in the arena

                        The stress,
                        time pressure,
                        lack of resources,
                        insecurity
                        and
                        total fear
                        that one must face
                        and combat with
                        each time
                        to be able
                        to enter
                        and merit
                        a place
                        in the world's most competitive designer arena.

                        Paris

                        The appreciation and gratitude
                        to still have a chance to do so--
                        as an independent.

                        To hold out,
                        and remain
                        a person
                        "owned"
                        by no one.

                        No "producers."
                        no "backers"
                        no "agents"
                        no "licensees"
                        no "distributors"
                        no trade show "organizers"
                        no "King" retailer
                        to tell me what to do,
                        to dilute,
                        interfere,
                        get in the way,
                        or as in so many cases--
                        take over
                        our ability
                        to do exactly
                        what our vision,
                        minds,
                        hearts
                        and hands
                        can and will
                        achieve,

                        God willing.

                        No need
                        to take part
                        and be a victim
                        anymore
                        of the "system"
                        that has eaten up
                        and ruined
                        an endless string
                        of the great
                        and not-so great.

                        The industrial machine
                        that uses
                        the designer
                        as pawn.

                        Just God above,
                        my family whom I love,
                        and the best clients in the world
                        to answer to, nothing else...

                        and commitment
                        to work our hearts out
                        and give them
                        everything we have
                        inside us
                        and beyond.

                        But,
                        every new season
                        is the toughest one
                        we have ever dealt with.

                        Every new collection
                        the most challenging.

                        And this time is no different.

                        Especially when
                        you are a real
                        independent.

                        The laws
                        of Paris collection work
                        remain firm.
                        We are in a race
                        to the very end,
                        the grinding-work
                        of ideas
                        and more importantly,
                        their execution
                        with only
                        our minds,
                        bodies,
                        hands,
                        time
                        and energy
                        to carry us there
                        willingly.

                        We must always
                        remind ourselves
                        of the painful truth
                        "that the last thing in the world
                        that most people need
                        is another fashion designer,
                        and his or her new collection."

                        True.

                        We are not doctors
                        saving people
                        from immediate pain
                        or death,
                        or even a plumber
                        fixing a toilet
                        which does not work.
                        The needs we fill
                        are generally viewed
                        as a more latent sort.


                        So we must constantly
                        answer the question,
                        "what are you doing
                        and proposing
                        that is so special,
                        that merits
                        your very existence?"

                        Answer the question.

                        Back to reality.







                        Back to work.







                        More decisions.
                        More work.
                        Don't get lost though.
                        Keep your head above it.
                        Look at it.
                        Use your eyes
                        above all else.
                        Remember,
                        it's a visual medium
                        we're in.
                        It has to look good.
                        Like it.
                        Don't like it.
                        Decide.
                        Then get it done.
                        Sketch.
                        Draft.
                        Cut.
                        Stitch.
                        Stitch more.
                        Dye.
                        Wash.
                        Look.
                        Finish.
                        Decide.
                        Good.
                        Bad.
                        Great.
                        Make it better
                        or move on.
                        Next one.
                        Hurry.
                        Find the groove.
                        Gotta find the groove.
                        Where is the road
                        taking us to?
                        Keep digging.
                        Find the groove.
                        Damn,
                        it's 5 in the morning already,
                        another day
                        gone.
                        Gotta sleep
                        at least a few hours...
                        where is that groove?
                        Man, my body
                        hurts,
                        tired.
                        Don't get sick.
                        Or you're out.
                        The madness of the whole thing.
                        No wonder they gave up,
                        quit,
                        sold-out,
                        closed,
                        gave in,
                        signed,
                        whatever
                        you want
                        to call it-
                        every last one of them...

                        hope they are all ok
                        and getting more rest
                        than me today,
                        and maybe
                        made themselves
                        a pot of money.

                        But that's their story,
                        not mine.
                        In New Hampshire as they say,
                        "live free or die."

                        That's me
                        for today...
                        Last edited by Geoffrey B. Small; 01-06-2011, 10:58 AM.

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                        • Geoffrey B. Small
                          Senior Member
                          • Nov 2007
                          • 618

                          Madness and loneliness of an independent designer 2/3

                          Keep digging.
                          Where is that groove?
                          The groove is
                          where the freedom is.
                          Find the groove and you find the freedom.
                          Freedom is truth.
                          Truth is beauty.
                          Find the beauty
                          and find the freedom.
                          At least for one more season...
                          keep digging.
                          Find the groove,
                          I think I can see it...

                          It's like
                          stepping out
                          into the void
                          you see...

                          hoping to get to the other side
                          and find the daylight and the path of
                          solid soil and ground and trees
                          But there are no guarantees.
                          Perhaps, this time you will fall
                          like Prometheus
                          reaching for the sun

                          Vic Chestnutt

                          you just took your life
                          and I just heard about you....

                          "and so all you observers
                          in your scrutiny,

don't count my scars
                          like tree rings

my jigsaw disposition,
                          its piecemeal properties,

are either smoked,
                          or honey cured,

by the panic pure."

                          Vic Chestnutt
                          (deceased) Christmas Day 2009


                          Yeah,
                          panic pure
                          I hear you.
                          RIP
                          for real

                          wake up

                          Stay at it, man
                          Don't give up now
                          It ain't over 'till its over
                          Remember
                          you gotta get it out
                          get it out
                          while you got the chance
                          the message
                          Tell 'em
                          the story
                          they don't know
                          they gotta know
                          what happened
                          to those people
                          all of 'em
                          Louis Slotkin
                          Mayak,
                          Chelyabinsk
                          Lake Karachay,
                          Prypiat,
                          Hanford
                          Trinity
                          Hiroshima,
                          Atoll de Mururoa,
                          Nagasaki,
                          Savananah
                          Chernobyl,
                          Tricastin,
                          La Hague
                          Windscale
                          Sellafield
                          Three Mile Island
                          Davis-Besse
                          Semipalatinsk
                          Ozyorsk
                          Chelyabinsk-65
                          Chelyabinsk-40
                          The Rutherford building in Manchester
                          depleted uranium casings
                          H-bombs
                          aboard B52's,
                          and B47's
                          crashing
                          accidentally
                          dropping
                          bombs
                          over Spain
                          over Greenland
                          over North Carolina
                          accidentally dropping
                          nuclear bombs!
                          that were never recovered
                          they're out there
                          nuclear
                          submarines sinking
                          satellites crashing
                          Scorpion
                          Thresher
                          Baltic
                          Northeast Canada
                          Norway
                          explosions in nuclear factories
                          everywhere
                          Oakridge
                          China
                          The Urals
                          West Gorky
                          Hanford
                          Baltic Sea


                          all the near misses
                          so many of them

                          lucky

                          and all the victims
                          not so lucky
                          all those poor people
                          how they died
                          on those fateful days
                          of warning
                          millions
                          how they died
                          fission
                          radiation
                          leukemia
                          cancer
                          skin dripping off their bones
                          turning to green jelly
                          eaten alive
                          by atomic energy
                          by neutrons
                          smashing into dna
                          cells gone beserk
                          death
                          in 15 days
                          or cancer
                          in 15 years
                          or 20
                          or 25
                          but it's coming
                          you've taken your hit
                          irradiated
                          marked for death
                          choose your killer
                          plutonium
                          uranium
                          strontium
                          cobalt
                          iodine
                          caesium
                          irridium
                          beryllium
                          depleted uranium
                          americium
                          neptunium
                          tritium
                          thorium
                          pollonium
                          krypton
                          xenon
                          products
                          of nuclear fission
                          exploded into the atmosphere
                          burned into the air
                          used in the bullets
                          dumped into the oceans
                          leaked into the rivers
                          the lakes
                          the ground
                          the soil
                          the fish
                          the produce
                          the meat
                          the food
                          we eat
                          it's everywhere
                          you can't see it
                          you can't smell it
                          it just goes right through you
                          it's in your body
                          and it kills you.
                          he's got cancer
                          she's got cancer
                          you've got cancer
                          i've got cancer
                          they've got cancer
                          it's the latest trend
                          a worldwide epidemic
                          we've all got cancer
                          and guess where
                          it's coming from


                          439 of them
                          around the world
                          104 in America
                          59 in France
                          15 in England
                          17 in Germany
                          51 in Japan


                          and now

                          they want to build more

                          300 of them
                          in the next ten years
                          the first will "fire up"

                          in 2012
                          yeah, that's right 2012

                          in Finland

                          then Flamanville
                          10 to 15 of them
                          in Italy
                          one right where I live
                          5 kilometers from Venice
                          what about the food?
                          what about the kids?
                          what about the floods?
                          what about the earthquakes?
                          what about the volcanoes?
                          what about the view?
                          what about the water?
                          what about the fabrics?
                          gotta be dreaming
                          but no
                          they are dead serious
                          and bringing soldiers too
                          just like their brand name suv's,
                          sunglasses and jeans
                          now they think need their
                          nuclear energy too
                          great...
                          take the most beautiful country in the world
                          and ruin it for eternity
                          in a decade
                          but whoa
                          that's not the end of it
                          80 more in India
                          and oh my god,
                          100 in China...
                          what about the floods?
                          what about the earthquakes?
                          what about the milk?
                          and lead in the Barbie's?
                          now these guys are going to handle plutonium....
                          and then
                          two or three
                          each
                          in another 60
                          developing and 3rd world nations...
                          Syria
                          Jordan
                          Egypt
                          the United Arab Emirates
                          Pakistan
                          Indonesia
                          Malaysia
                          Argentina
                          Turkey
                          Vietnam
                          Albania
                          Iran
                          North Korea
                          you name it
                          they'll all have one.


                          Each one
                          an atom bomb
                          exploding
                          "under control"
                          24 hours a day
                          just one
                          human error
                          or earthquake
                          or
                          terrorist act
                          away
                          from another
                          Mayak,
                          Chernobyl
                          or worse,
                          capable of
                          3-5 megatons
                          able to kill millions
                          and render
                          entire continents
                          uninhabitable
                          to humans
                          for 250,000
                          years.

                          Each one
                          taking,
                          using,
                          sending back,
                          plutonium fuel and waste shipments
                          all over the planet
                          by truck,
                          train,
                          boat
                          and ferry.

                          You may
                          be passing one
                          in your car on the freeway right now.


                          God help us.

                          God help me

                          Every collection
                          may be the last one

                          the last chance to stay in the arena,
                          To have a voice.


                          God help me
                          tell the story

                          of the people










                          of Chernobyl,
                          of Mayak,
                          of Hiroshima,
                          and more

                          The children
                          the families
                          the mothers
                          the fathers
                          the liquidators
                          the hibakusha
                          all of them


                          Don't let their
                          sacrifice be
                          covered up

                          Don't let their
                          pain have been
                          in vain

                          Get off your a_ses
                          Unplug the TV
                          viral the message
                          spread it
                          the truth
                          get 'em into the voting booth
                          now
                          before it's too late
                          before there are none
                          forever

                          Let 'em know
                          that madness
                          awaits them


                          nuclear renaissance
                          begins in 2010


                          and it's coming
                          to where you live.


                          Wherever you are.


                          Panic pure
                          for sure



                          Hey,

                          wake up

                          it's only fashion...


                          you're just
                          a designer


                          shut up and make your frocks

                          who needs
                          another one
                          of you anyway?


                          Live free or die.


                          just joking.



                          in haste,

                          Geoffrey
                          Last edited by Geoffrey B. Small; 01-06-2011, 11:00 AM.

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                          • Geoffrey B. Small
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2007
                            • 618

                            Madness and loneliness of an independent designer 3/3

                            Post script

                            ps. apologies to anyone for the brevity and haphazardnous of the above. Any reference to names and objects is purely for fictitional purposes of the stressed out and delirious author and does not refer to any actual existing, living or dead individuals or persons or corporations or countries. With respect to all humanity ...




                            A little girl's doll photographed still laying on a field in the city of Pripyat, 23 years after the explosion of Chernobyl, where 45,000 men, women and children were evacuated suddenly in buses after being told they would need to leave their homes temporarily for a few days on April 29, 1986 as a burning cloud of deadly levels of radioactive nuclear waste rained down over thousands of kilometres of territory around them. No one has ever returned to live there. The abandoned city today is a testament to the safety and real risks of nuclear energy, if you remain more than several hours in the city and anywhere within a vast distance in its countryside, you will still receive a lethal dose of radiation that will kill you within weeks. Yet so few have been informed. And now it is being rammed through as a clean energy solution to global warming. Right. Do we really need 740 of these by 2020?

                            Related links:

                            Paul Fusco's story
                            (magnum photos)
                            http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl
                            YouTube version
                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HLkD...eature=related

                            The true battle of Chernobyl uncensored
                            http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...1427276447319#

                            Italian version (versione italiano):
                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEG7dSd8tv0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2
                            Etiempolibresite%2Ecom%2Fforum%2Flofiversion%2Find ex%2Ephp%3Ft5619%2
                            Ehtml&feature=player_embedded#t=86

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                            • huckleberry
                              Senior Member
                              • Jul 2009
                              • 361

                              Always love your posts, this did remind me of this video



                              I am undecided on nuclear power, I see the necessity in our current situation in regards to resources and global warming however the detrimental effects of waste and high risk are quite overwelming.My very simple conclusion on it is that for now it is so depended upon that it seems hard to stop it, however it is clear that it is only a temporary solution.

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                              • Faust
                                kitsch killer
                                • Sep 2006
                                • 37852

                                I had a pleasure of meeting Geoffrey in Paris. I was utterly blown away by two things:

                                1) The quality of the materials, from finest overdyed cashmeres to washed Italian silks for the linings, and construction quality.
                                2) His honest and gentle character.

                                Very happy to have you here and a personal thanks from me.
                                Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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