Category: Education

July 2, 2013 / Vickie Lester

A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN – GOT INTO THE ROYAL ACADEMY

…to study fashion design with his icons. ROCK ON

June 26, 2013 / Vickie Lester

THIS IS HOW I FEEL – HAPPY AND DESOLATE

Some combo…happy and desolate. A certain young man is in Europe, poised for a two day exam that will set the course for his next four years. Exciting, wonderful, challenging. Here at home it is very quiet, very still. None of that distinctive loping footfall that denotes an impatience with…

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May 29, 2013 / Vickie Lester

RICK OWENS IS A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON SOMEBODY (SOMEBODIES) I LOVE

May 22, 2013 / Vickie Lester

In Conversation | Bruce Weber and Kathleen Turner on Becoming Mentors – NYTimes.com

TURNER: Another thing I want to do, and I hope I do, is to pass on a kind of ethics, you know, a professional ethics: Don’t be late. Your job is to be physically able to do this, the role that you have taken on. Don’t keep people waiting. Treat…

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May 22, 2013 / Vickie Lester

In Conversation | Bruce Weber and Kathleen Turner on Becoming Mentors – NYTimes.com

How did you approach working with your students? WEBER: I decided not to just take photographers. I wanted filmmakers, because I’m a filmmaker myself, but also painters or writers. It seemed like a lot of the people were also writers. And I learned so much about looking at things in…

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