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grateful for this week, for democracy, for the hope of unity, for the nation's youth poet laureate, and for this quote by benjamin franklin that our new first lady jill biden had discreetly sewn inside the bespoke gabriela hearst coat she wore for the inauguration evening celebration: "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember.  Involve me and I learn."  

photos gabriela hearst
@gabrielahearst

 

Friday afternoon moon

at the Inauguration this week, Ms Amanda Gorman, our National Youth Poet Laureate, burst forth as a bright, clear light.  excerpted from her poem, The Hill We Climb:

We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be: a country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free.

We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation, become the future.

Our blunders become their burdens.

But one thing is certain.

If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children's birthright.

So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left.

the high line, looking east on gansevoort

 

so much style

so much to celebrate.

good night for now, America the beautiful!  

kamala harris, jill biden, michelle obama
inauguration day, photo credit nbc news...

amanda gorman, youth poet laureate,
photo credit getty...

 

lovely day

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment..."
Georgia O'Keeffe

on broadway ... 

happy mother's day, stay home style....  xoxo

art in the park

stay home, new york

Riverside Park

uniform

The African Diaspora and the theme of renewal was on the minds of Rosario Dawson and Abrimah Erwiah at Studio 189 who traveled to Ghana earlier this year by invitation of President Nana Akufo-Addo to celebrate Year of Return.    

On the runway, diversity was celebrated through fabric, color, pattern, dance, song and symbolism.

The red white and blue stripes amidst the bold African prints stood out, particularly on the day before the anniversary of the September 11th tragedy.  Vogue later shared in an interview with the designers that this nod was a way of exploring heritage and shared history....  https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2020-ready-to-wear/studio-189

This is the third year for me attending the show, consistently brilliantly theatrical and collectively shared, with costume and ceremony key to conveying the roots of the collection and the profound creative and social impulses propelling this women led initiative. 

studio one eighty nine...