FLINGA in Vixen magazine

4 houres of interview the morning after we had a work night with 3 hours of sleep turned out not bad:)

Post war zen

I realize as I'm writing this that this blog has become very personal to me and I was wondering for some time if I should change the title to Third Wave FeminiST instead of Feminism since Im obviously sharing my own personal point of view. After some thinkering I came to the conclusion that nothing is ever objective. Just think about it. All academic research which we base our moral belief systm on are usually written by one author. Not even science is objective since the scientist is the most important tool in the research. Whats great about blogs is that the opinions who are shared under one subject are subjective the - honest form of communication. As well as it gives the readers the opportunity to protest by engaging in a discussion.

So I thought Ide continue this post by telling something personal. Its been a loooong time since my last post. And I had my reasons. Among other things there were for example a war that broke loose in the country where my best friend and partner is making our next collection. Kind of surreal the whole thing. She witnessed people getting killed in front of her own eyes, half the city getting burned down and every time I was on the phone with her the only thing she was worried about was weather the collection would be done in time. Haha. This wonder woman is my hero. We often joke that she basically risked her life for this, I guess now that everything is ok, its a good story. Everything is back to normal over there now, thank God.

The pictures I posted is from a Norwegian fashion magazine called Vixen. There is an interview in it with us, but I havent gotten a hold on the magazine yet. Ill post it when I get it, but for now here is the prieview. The model is Lydia Hirst and the amazing styling is done by Norwegian stylist Storm Robert.

Interesting choice of illustration picture for this text hu? I guess Im just into optimism.

Patti Smith on quitting bad habits

SMITH: I used to drink like 14 cups a day. I was a pretty speedy person, but I never noticed. Then, when I was pregnant, I had to give up coffee. After that, I cut down to five or six cups. Ever since I hit 60, I drink only two. What I do is I get an Americano and a pot of water and I keep diluting it, because it’s not even the coffee, it’s the habit.

BOLLEN: That’s my problem. I really don’t smoke cigarettes that much except when I write. But when I write, I smoke. It’s bad, but I’m scared that if I break the habit, I won’t be able to write.

SMITH: It’s part of your process. It’s what you have to do. I’ll tell you how to break it. You don’t have to. Like, coffee was part of my process. Now, if I want to go to a café and write and drink coffee for two hours, I just order them. I don’t drink them. A lot is just aesthetic. So you light your cigarette and let it sit there and don’t smoke it.

BOLLEN: Do you think that would work?

SMITH: If you attach anything harmful to the creative process, you have to do that. If you learn nothing else from me, this is a really important lesson. I’ve seen a lot of people go down because they attach a substance to their creative process. A lot of it is purely habitual. They don’t need it, but they think they do, so it becomes entrenched. Like, I can’t go without my coffee. I can go without drinking it, but I can’t go without it nearby. It’s the feeling of how cool I feel with my coffee. Because I don’t feel cool with this tea. [Bollen laughs]

You know, there are pictures of me with cigarettes in the ’70s, and everybody thought I smoked. I can’t smoke because I had TB when I was a kid. But I loved the look of smoking—like Bette Davis and Jeanne Moreau. So I would have cigarettes and just light ’em and take a couple puffs, but mostly hold them. Some people said that was hypocritical. But in my world, it wasn’t hypocritical at all. I wasn’t interested in actually smoking them. I just liked holding them to look cool. All right, was it a bad image to show people? I’m happy to let people know I wasn’t really smoking.

source: interview magazine

the New Museum (NY) has feminist roots

Marcia Tucker was the person behind the renowned contemporary art museum - The New museum in NYC. As one of the first female art museum directors, she also influenced several generations of women in the field. Role models for women were scarce when Marcia started, and here was this outspoken feminist who had invented her own museum! Today, more than a third of art museum directors are women, but when Marcia joined the Association of Art Museum Directors Tin 1986, it was a boys' club, and she was an agitator

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Morrisay interviews Artist Linder

MORRISSEY: I think art is a miracle, and I’m so relieved at those rare moments when someone gets it right. But how do you avoid being a copyist? After all, we all work with the same set of words and the same set of materials.

MORRISSEY: Art is also the gluttony of the self-engrossed, isn’t it? Well, it needs to be. But are there not moments, mid-stroke, when you think to yourself, well, perhaps I’m a bit of a nutter? I hope not, of course.

LINDER: Most artists, by rights, should be unemployable and living in Hackney. Many are. But the artist is in many ways the village idiot, recast as a superhero. If you’re looking for me, you’ll find me by the pump. I’m trading stray wisps of straw with the idiot from the next village.

LINDER: The mouth can betray in two ways—by what goes in and what comes out. I am not one of nature’s chatterboxes—but neither do I mumble. As time goes by, I have less and less desire to speak. And the number of people to whom I might address my select and diminishing group of words is likewise dwindling. My internal monologue keeps me busy enough. You once said that you felt as though you had read everything; I sometimes feel as though I have said and heard enough. I cheer the blank page. And central to my own work has always been the fact that women have more than one pair of lips.

LINDER: being the High Priest of the Contrary

LINDER: I try to tell people very slowly and precisely exactly what I think and feel about my work, and they look at me as though I’ve got flies crawling over my eyelids.

LINDER: I’ll probably be 70 before my full cleavage is revealed to the world. Do you remember I always used to wear V-necks back to front? As a young woman in the ’70s, I longed for a flat chest—to be braless, liberated, and secure in just a vest. Inevitably, I used to attend feminist meetings in south Manchester wearing a 36C cup and too much lipstick. A woman’s right to choose.

LINDER: I have never been much of one for “colorful characters.” I think that all too often “eccentric” is just another word for “veteran bore.” Kingsley Amis once called Stevie Smith “dotty” on television. It was hard not to agree, but she was dotty, in a brilliant kind of way. Perhaps the answer to this lies in the fact that a great deal of talent is required to turn eccentricity into charm. But how quickly that charm can curdle and turn back into a kind of sour milk of the personality. . . . It’s the razor-blade high wire that genius walks.

Source: Interview magazine

Poem in motion

Beautiful video from Dior homme by Nowness. Check it out here

Yin Yang as a metaphore for equality and balance

The Yin/Yang symbol is one of the oldest and best-known life symbols in the world, but few understand its full meaning. It represents one of the most fundamental and profound theories of ancient Taoist philosophy. At its heart are the two poles of existence, which are opposite but complementary. The light, white Yang moving up blends into the dark, black Yin moving down. Yin and Yang are dependent opposing forces that flow in a natural cycle, always seeking balance. Though they are opposing, they are not in opposition to one another. As part of the Tao, they are merely two aspects of a single reality. Each contains the seed of the other, which is why we see a black spot of Yin in the white Yang and vice versa. They do not merely replace each other but actually become each other through the constant flow of the universe.

Grace Jones

Today I did a shoot that was inspired by Grace jones. Pretty big shoes to fill, but it was fun. I had rasta braided hair, and a badass attitude haha. They featured clothes from Acne and my own Flinga and plenty other scandinavian designs (Ill post pics after its published). Photographer was Einar Elton and Stylist was the amazing Maya Vik - bassist from Monte.
Check her out here