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Technicolor Dreamin
When I read On the Road in 1959 in my third year of art school in Canada, my cowboy heroes transformed into Kerouac’s mythical duo zigzagging their way across America. They recast the American myth, “Go west, young man; freedom is waiting for you”, to “Go, young woman and forge a new identity”. That book set me on my travels to San Francisco, the beatnik heartland in search of that mysterious brotherhood of creative spirits working in a forbidden underground.
In Her Own Fashion
Have you ever wondered how it must have felt–I mean to have touched, smelled, sensed the impressionist implosions in the mind–to have lived and taken part in the last cultural revolution of the Twentieth century? I mean of course the Swinging Sixties and Seventies, particularly in London, the heart of hippie fashion, poetry, pop music, sexual and feminist movements–then this memoir of a highly successful fashion designer and consultant will interest you.