SHARING WITH ME

Ah the years are rushing by again. Remember these two chapters? « Locks and Love » http://discovmaggsie.blogspot.com/2012/03/locks-and-love.html then « Ah Sweet Love » http://discovmaggsie.blogspot.com/2012/03/ah-sweet-love.html In 2012, the bridge that was touched the most was the Pont Des Arts. Soon every possible bridge in the centre of Paris was being « destroyed » by the weight of the locks. Once they became rusty due to the rain or elements it became even worse. Perhaps it was a sweet tradition to sign a lock, put it onto the railing and then thrown the key away. Being somewhat cynical about love, I’ve often wondered what happens when the couple « falls out of love ». The lock could hardly of been recuperated. It’s a tradition that came from Rome and yet when I went onto Wiki, I found this….. « The history of love padlocks dates back at least 100 years to a melancholic Serbian tale of World War I, with an attribution for the br...

I was still working when Jean-Paul Gaultier( 1952-) launched his first perfume. A bottle of a women’s bust tightly fit into a corset. Madonna? Then to go even further, he used a tin box for the outer packaging rather than a refined cardboard box. I guess the profession just didn’t know which way to look. His fashion was well over the top but now perfumes…..then came the male perfume and all the eccentricities that move in this world. That all happened as I seem to remember in 1991 but I could be out by a couple of years, months or days. It doesn’t matter. This man was going to rock the industry…..and he did. He is perhaps one of the most important fashion designers of recent decades but the question is, is he a fashion designer or an artist? Paco Rabanne, plastic and metal dress: 1969 He’s a self taught man and took refuge when growing up in his grandmother’s beauty salon. He loved designing, he loved costumes so it’s not surprising that before long he was working i...