Tag: education

Friends

April 8, 2017 by Vickie Lester

I have a friend I met when we were nine. This picture of Mary Pickford reminds me of her, the solid gaze, the bold spirit, and the curls. She’s the only person I’ve ever known whose hair fell into perfect ringlets. Recently, she called out of the blue and we were chattering instantly as if almost thirty years hadn’t passed since we last talked, but merely a couple of hours. I was worried about some health issue, she instantly set […]

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A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN – GOT INTO THE ROYAL ACADEMY

July 2, 2013 by Vickie Lester

…to study fashion design with his icons. ROCK ON

Categories: Art, Blogging, Children, Culture, Design, Education, fashion, Parenting, Photography, Travel, Truth & Rumors • Tags: arts, education, fashion, Raf Simons, royal academy, style

THIS IS HOW I FEEL – HAPPY AND DESOLATE

June 26, 2013 by Vickie Lester

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 time and space. No rattling of cabinets and dishes and the bank vault thud of the refrigerator door at odd hours in the dark. No, “Hey, look at this! That […]

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A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN…

June 23, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Has completed his portfolio and is packing his “off to Europe” bag to sit for an entrance exam at a school of design… I will be quiet here on blog-world for the next couple of days. Best wishes, my friends! Vickie

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

May 22, 2013 by Vickie Lester

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 people with respect. Whatever aspect of the work they’re doing, you, you know, an actor is the last person who gets to do their job. You need everybody else before […]

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

May 22, 2013 by Vickie Lester

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 the world through books, you know I grew up in a small town — TURNER: Oh, absolutely. via In Conversation | Bruce Weber and Kathleen Turner on Becoming Mentors – […]

LETTERS FROM FRIENDS

March 27, 2013 by Vickie Lester

My friend responds to my post (FRIENDS | BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD) about growing up together: So you remember Jilly the Gerbil’s funeral! That was one of the first stories I told my kids about us too! I think we dressed up in our Sunday dress-up best because I distinctly remember dragging my dress through the dirt, and your hat…very appropriately two sizes too big! As the bereaved surviving relative I said a few solemn words at the grave site, you “quoted” […]

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