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Thea Porter, the fairy godmother of boho-chic, changed fashion from the 1960's, bestowing an iconic register for orthodoxical bohemian rhapsody & suture. Something in the Middle Eastern aesthetic state & opulence of her language & ritual reminds us of free-spirited charm & originality, even seeking to destroy originality & redeem it with a nomadic sense of wanderlust. For this reason Thea Porter represents exoticism & nomadic temptation as a formal infatuation for years to come.  

The physiological aspects of her original silhouettes become clear if we follow her flowing, romantic shapes, billowing sleeves, & sweeping skirts, providing a narrative form with which we can organize an undifferentiated series of drives into distinct images & statements. This power reached its apotheosis in a superabundant force of silk, chiffon, velvet, brocade, intricate embellishments, & vibrant prints; but it also manifested itself in the classical desire to treat the self as a work of art in jewel tones, earthy hues, vibrant prints, bold patterns, intricate paisleys, & geometric motifs. 

The British artist, fashion designer & retailer found aesthetic expression in the primal force & narcotic rhythms of her flowing maxi dresses, caftans, tunics, & tailored jackets with fringed trims, tassel accents, ornate buttons, intricate embroidery, delicate lace insets, & hand-finished beadwork, which intoxicate the wearer into a ‘complete forgetting of the self’.

Sundazed exalts the capacity of fashion to concentrate formless nature into distinct images. Habitual concepts by which we structure our daily lives (such as time, space, causality & identity) as illusions or narrative fictions we impose upon the chaotic nature of experience.

Because what we know as ‘real’ is produced by this type of narrative illusion. Thea Porter followed that dream & visual art which offers a powerful second-order version of the illusion, which needs no recourse to transcendent ideas & trends.

Because what we know as ‘real’ is produced by this type of narrative illusion.

Thea Porter: Time, Space, Causality & Bohemian Rhapsody

The CEO spends her afternoons running between my office & the conference room of a woman-owned startup aka Sundazed & Outside Society aka a smoke-filled room  where the plans for the party have already been made.

I know that we could depend on her to make sure that everything runs like clockwork, as there aren't too many people  just sitting around doing nothing at our office. One could say that she really shook it up & made things run a lot better.

But if she puts me in an office without a window, I'll scream bloody murder, so I have to see the boss for brief periods of consideration of office picnics to talk more about my architectural plans of scaling the playhouse to the main office.

On the subject of office politics, I always try to tell both the clerical workers & the management that Sundazed & Outside Society will take over the Vintage market. Luxury fashion consumers will stock up the wardrobe with rare european vintage this year. Why else would I be staying in the office so late every night?

Meanwhile, I spend my afternoons out of office, running from door to door, telling people what's happening. I'm always in a hurry (with the urge to escape from everything) so I try rush all our orders through the shipping department.

Things are very tense at work. But of course I still will have to see the boss about getting permission to go. "Leaving the office early, the heavy workload snowed me under. Did we sign off on the Profoto studio equipment  yet?" She doesn't say anything, then she must not mind if I go. Silence gives consent.

I like to call it ‘The Daily Resignation’ so that my job won’t ‘Break My Soul’. 

Spring & Resort 2024  (or 1984) designers implore us to get away from everything & anything in organza, fluid charmeuse & gabardine, artisanal-crafted crochets, & voluminous styling gifts in a spectrum of gothic summer sunset hues, christening hard resort wear for those considering a temporary (or even permanent) vacation ...

Our new female CEO really rules the roost. Who rules the roost at your house? 

Academia was trending on the Spring 2024 (& Spring 1984) runways.

It’s an aesthetic motif that improvises on an old theme, perhaps because it invites self-reflection & meditation on happy thoughts.

Academia invites reflection on the joys of being smart & entering into intellectual competitions, of matching wits with one's partner (perhaps with an honorary degree) &  running circles around her with one's clever repartee.

Academia invites reflection on the dramas of growing up & handling or coping with one’s burdens, of enduring one’s difficulties & surviving by being clever with twists that bring the dramas  back to life.

 Academia invites reflection on thinking one should go far & do better, getting brilliant results primarily by working hard & living by one's wits with intricate strategies that helps one get out of trouble.

Academia invites reflection on the way dress codes shape one's self-perception, lending a great deal of color to the slide show of one's own permanent vacation.

Academia invites reflection on having it in oneself, by being a genius with special inborn powers & remembering that genius is ten percent inspiration & ninety percent perspiration.

Academia also provides inspiration for how to be clever & creative within the restraints of formal dressing while working on one's novel while the inspiration lasts.

A look back to school days doesn't  strain for effect so much. The author of one's own drama knew what they were doing, & it’s in the lines already.

On this front, Miu Miu’s disheveled subversion of prep-school uniforms was definitely conspicuous, as was Marni’s café society nonconformists or Chanel’s provocative secretaries. 

Punk   riffs on school girl short skirts from Copova Lowena were easily grasped, an initiative much obliged to Andreas Kronthaler's Vivienne Westwood.

JW Anderson bestowed a claymation narrative of an out-of-dresscode ensemble, while Dries Van Noten liberates the conventional rugby shirt, persuading us that it’s okay to do a bit of peacocking.

Designers are going back to school, the party’s over! 

Sundazed & Outside Society was founded in 2023 to explore rare & exotic vintage, share in its study, & help pioneer its development in cyberspace. 

Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of our work, the technologists & market makers of S.O.S. represent a rapidly growing & evolving organization dressed in fancy clothes,  & a thought & conversation-leader within our field working to identify & engage with the opportunities of the internet that reaches beyond our  base to the rest of the world. 

We need something to perk up the vintage market & make it more lively. Here, let us refresh you with a cool glass of lemonade while you shop our rich & diverse curriculum of obscur designers gone a long time ago but not too late for the refreshments. After juice & cookies, we all go back into the laboratory for more hours of research.

To be exactly right, the S.O.S.  holds attitudes & ideas that were popular & important in the past, & yet still relevant & in line with modern trends. 

Pastels are no new 'spring trend', so fortunately we have a teacher from the old school ...

 Tis' is the season of blossoming flowers, baby birds, & budding leaves poetically lending itself to shades of lilac, eggshell, & fern.

Spring 2024 (or Spring 1984) saw a refreshed & revitalized focus on using these classic seasonal colors in proper context that only certain people understand.

Not loyal to only a baby blue or a pale orange, 'real' designers know how to investigate with color interaction, materiality & texture.

We know that the existence of a cloud is ephemeral, just as we would say  today that Prada, for example, uses pastel tones across sheer, diaphanous fabrics to create an ephemeral distortion of the body’s boundaries. 

Meanwhile, Maison Margiela creates order out of a chaotic sensory bombardment  as it cunningly deploys the pastel palette in its chaotically composed rewriting of restrictive feminine dress forms. 

Zimmermann sees pastels in a more classically feminine & romantic glorification, while Collina Strada permits a full treatment of 'grunge princess' in her Spring 2024 show that began as an exploration of AI & neural net technologies ...

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