Spring 2010 Style Guide

Killer Stripes

Josef Hoffmann dress, c. early 20th century.

Agnes Martin in her studio.

Bold Textures

Bronzino, A. Ritratto di Lodovico Capponi, c. 1550-5. oil on poplar panel; 44 7/8 x 33 3/4 in. The Frick Collection, NY.

Dark + Light Looks

both images, Laetitia Casta, Vogue Paris December/January issue, guest edited by Ms. Casta.

España

both paintings, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

Subtle Decadence

Schad, C. Marcella.

Goya y Lucientes. Teresa de Sureda

Red Highlights

Dix, O. The Dancer Anita Berber, 1925.

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Anne Sexton Goes to the Circus, or, Finding form (finding function)

I used to describe it this way;

that if you used form it was like letting a lot of

wild animals out into the arena, but enclosing them in a cage,

and you could let some extraordinary animals out if you had the right cage,

and that cage would be form.

--Anne Sexton, in a 1965 interview with Patricia Marx

And tonight our skins, our bones,

that have survived our fathers,

will meet, delicate in the hold,

fastened together in an intricate

lock. Then one of us will shout,

"My need is more desperate!" and

I will eat you slowly with kisses

even though the killer in you

has gotten out.

--excerpt, "Loving the Killer"

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