The world in her skirt......"Stop the world I want to get off"......now!

Self Portrait in La Boudoir Dada.

All day I have been re-counting the passing of the week just gone.Two major catastrophic incidents took place......France lost the "Y" out of the most iconic logo known to them... that of YSL. A so called new Creative Director...I cant recall the name (Lame I think) decided that it was a good idea...name change will certainly put him on a map of his own...but hey... he will still hang on to a part of it to give him cred.....he'll need it.

 The other news I received tonight from Rome ...was that the legendary Italian Cinecitta Studio's in Rome..... is being developed into a resort and fun park for tourist's.
Hail...!
Federico Fellini if you are with the God's of Rome up there.....is it possible you can shoot arrows into the rear ends of those about to concrete by the thousands of kilo's, into the sacred play ground of the worlds most treasured land of exquisite artifice ..........."Maestro feel free to unleash your wrath".

Has the world gone stir crazy.......Im ready to call Richard Branson up to ask him if I can nominate my services as a guinea pig....for his first flight to Mars...or is it La Luna!?.....anywhere but planet earth.

The first ten years of any new century...is always about technology.
This century started off so well.....dont get me wrong!.....I would be the first to say how much I love facebook and youtube and my laptop with the perfectly cut out little apple on the lid......but its taking the personal elements from our old lives into the impersonal land of click click click click....click.

Year in year out....in this new century I have watched my Graduates leave their nest....only to discover their chosen fields of study are not well represented out there in the so called "Global Community".

Career's in the world today are subject to the utmost scrutiny ........a position in fashion or the creative domain is one you have to be deeply philosophical about. A creative approach is not enough to carry you across the threshold of this most unpredictable arena.

To play as an artist in an artist's world you need to be tough...you need to always be outside...in the dark...in the light...up in the air....down in the basement...where ever it pulls you into is where an artist gets his or her chances.An artist who becomes a Fashion Designer...has to be outside most of the time.
Its a world of thinking and re-thinking...often 24 hours a day....because its governed by business.

Andy Warhol said.."The art of Business and the Business of art.....are good."

Looking at the students work at the end of their time......is kind of sad...strangely they have belonged to you....they are in your charge...when they go you speak of the great and passionate days you hope they will have and with that...also comes the wonder of it all.

Their history and their technologies are fast and expedient.....its the one they were given..the one that hopefully transports them to that distant world, where the new order of things fits well for them.....let the fashion gods look down at them from the giddy heights and steer them into their own wonderfully artistic/worldly/meaningful yet alarming treadmills of life.......remember to be philosophical in what ever you do.......that will guide you well in the knowing that you have a fantastic experience ahead of yourself.

World in her skirt by G.Willis.

Oh....that contemplative other geographical walk.....I was going to take.......has  now made me more conscious  of all the emails and attachments I need to attend to....so I guess after I skype my friends in LA and fax an invoice I will be able to check my facebook notifications and prepare the assessment marks....before recharging my mobile phone and ipod ...in time for a 8.00am start......note to self..............must call Richard Branson.....ASAP!

Napoleon's Eye.: The World in my skirt....."Stop this perpetual cra...

Napoleon's Eye.: The World in my skirt....."Stop this perpetual cra...: All day today......I thought about my brother, who passed away at an early age...today would have been his Birthday. I thought how strange ...

The World in my skirt....."Stop this perpetual crazy world".....I want to get off.........now!

All day today......I thought about my brother, who passed away at an early age...today would have been his Birthday.
I thought how strange it would be to have him back.....for him to be transported here and now.
What would I say to him....what would he say to me...what would he look like....would he have aged to his 53 years......or remain young and beautiful.


One thing is certain......he wouldn't like it one bit.


After hearing two lots of really disturbing news in two days......about the changing of the iconic  YSL logo and name.........and the famous and legendary Cinecitta Studio's in Rome about to be developed into a major resort for tourists.....Im ready to call up Richard Branson and ask him if I can nominate myself to be a guinea pig for his first flight to Mars...or is it the moon....!...anywhere than planet earth.

With technology....advanced and super seeding itself, by the second.......it appears to place people in the....we dont need you basket.

Dont get me wrong.....Id be the first to say I love facebook and youtube and laptops with little apples carved in the lids......but all this talk of a wonderful global community stuff...mixed with viewing your loved one, a million miles away sitting in their undies talking about whatever....just does not interest me at all.
I have watched my graduating students leave the nest.....with no jobs to go to and little assurances of a career in their chosen fields of study....Its not the way it should be.

The creative world is tough and an  outside place to walk in....and when you do walk around in it for many years it can one day turn its back on you......leaving you to find something that hardly resembles what you left behind.

Artists are working away at their ideas....ideas that sometimes belong in the world we live in and sometimes in the worlds of their imaginations.........we rely on ourselves to make decisions and to figure out the complexities. Life in the every day is changing at such a rapid rate.....there's no time to contemplate or mull over your next move........I use to find that taking myself for a long geographically unknown walk...somewhere......... was my only way to feel at ease with myself and that soon runs out.

Worried about the so called future...leaves you saying to yourself......one day at a time!
My god!... is that the time.
Iv got to get home!
There's a million things to... do!
Must  recharge my mobile before I send those fifty emails and skype my friends in LA...as well as set the remote for that BBC doco and finish my blog for tomorrows devotee's.....ah!...................................

Portrait by G.Willis.

please say yes Richard Branson...x