^ Which one? I'd like to read that one as well.
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Is Copying Really a Part of the Creative Process?
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I believe it was the New Yorker one. He also told me that, but I never put it on record.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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It's funny that now, in the middle of a discussion on copying, I should be offered an internship where I'd be copying kid's clothes for patterns... go figure.
Read the article...I definitely see how making patterns copying designer clothing would be educational. Again, the problem is the legality and the ethics. Sure, you could make one-off muslins for your own edification, but not many people have that sort of self-discipline. A job where you're being *paid* to do it certainly adds motivation...
Originally posted by JoniFSo admiration toward a designer's integrity is not determined by how he or she has adhered to his or her principles, but by how little sacrifices in principles he or she has made.
And yes, I suppose in a way I'm looking for my own justifications before embarking on this ethically-fuzzy journey...Originally posted by Yohji Yamamoto, on his second Paris showFrom the next collection it became a war. I didn't want a war but too much attack made me fight.' And you are a good fighter, I say, referring to his black belt in karate. 'I am,' he nods.
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