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Visiting San Francisco for the weekend, I joined some friends of mine there to go to the opening party of the Vivienne Westwood exhibit. I spent the entire time inside the show and by the time I got out, it was too late for me to get my free cocktail.

The show is set up in on a chronologically linear path, which is not a particularly creative way to do things, but more pedagogical. I enjoyed that and thought it was not a bad decision on the part of the curator. The lighting was very, very low on the show. I wonder if there is more light in the daytime. It's a shame to dull the colors of her work in bad lighting.

Walking through the show, I felt inspired, saw a lot of little ideas I'd like to use, and then felt a bit depressed knowing that I haven't any time at all to make things these days. Or at least not as many things as I would like. It is a great feeling, though to turn on the designing lights in my brain for a couple hours and give the part of me that uses those ideas a bit of exercise.

The crowd was very mellow and mostly dressed to the hilt. Lots of corsets, of course. If ever there was an opprotunity to haul out the corset, well, this was it. The person with the best get up was wearing a buffalo-head hat. There were a couple drag queens in pastel-colored victorian wigs who were pretty remarkable, also.

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fashion , design , party , vivienne westwood