memoir of a fashion/textile designer, fashion forecaster who created Trend Union
Do you want to be a successful designer. textile designer or fashion consultant? Then you may want to read this memoir. Or perhaps you wondered what it was like to have taken part in the last cultural revolution of the Twentieth century, the Swinging Sixties, the heart of hippie fashion, poetry, pop music, sexual and feminist movements—then Karen Moller’s memoir will interest you. It is a first-person gallop through beatnik and hippie, San Francisco, New York, Paris and London in the 1960s and 70s, with plenty of insider hanging-out and anecdotes with Sixties icons as she progresses from art student to top fashion/textile designer. TIME magazine named Karen’s Paris styling office, Trend Union, “one of the World's Most Influential Fashion Futurists.”
Technicolour Dreamin’ In Her Own Fashion
Written by Karen Moller
Published by Olympia Publishers
31/05/2018 - £10.99 – Paperback
ISBN:978-1-84897-987-1
Categories:Autobiography / 20thCentury History
"In Technicolour Dreamin', Karen Moller has given us a personal and critical history of the counter-culture, from beatnik San Francisco and New York, to hippie Paris and London, to Fluxus, to the feminist and fashion revolutions, to the aftermath of it all. This is a delightful memoir by an artist and designer who has seen it all and done it all and who took good notes and thought hard about what it meant, all along the way."William Niederkorn - composer, playwright, NY journalist
"An exhilarating first-person gallop through more than thirty Summers of Love, plenty of insider hanging out and anecdotes with artists like Yves Klein painting women blue, not to mention Corso, Burroughs and Warhol. Over the course of three decades, Karen met pretty much every hip personality that defined the times."Paris Blog by Matthew Rose
"Karen captures the spirit of the sixties when dressing up wasn't called fashion and creativity ruled... Her book brought back so many memories of the sixties that I couldn't put it down."Peter Golding - Fashion Wiz of the 1960s