Technicolor Dreamin' In Her Own Fashion
Series: no
Publisher: Olympia Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; spa
Format: paper back
Number of pages: 316
Copyright date: copyright 2017 Karen Moller
Other titles: sonando en tecnicolor (spanish0
Table of contents: title: In my third year of art school in Canada, inspired by Kerouac's On the Road, I took off hitchhiking to San Francisco where having met some of the beatnik poets I lost my enthusiasm to join the brotherhood. In New York and Paris, as an artist in training, I attended art classes, hung out at the Beat Hotel, and participated in Poetry and Art Events. I participated in the 1960s protests (ecological, sexual feminist and political protests in London and in 1968 on the Paris barricades), which not only helped liberalize our society but changed the way we think and the way we dress. In London I became a highly successful designer, first with my own boutique and then with sales to Carnaby Street and Kings Road, and throughout the world. In 1969, I established the first textile design studio in London and after winning awards and gaining international recognition, I moved my studio to Paris. In 1976 I created Trend Union, named by TIME magazine as ‘One of the world's most influential fashion futurists'. In 2007 I wrote my memoir—a personal and critical history of the 1960’s and 70’s counterculture—Technicolor Dreamin’ was published in Canada, later reedited as In Her Own Fashion in the U.S.A., then translated in Spain in 2014 as Sonando en Tecnicolor, and in England in 2017 updated as Technicolor Dreamin’ In her Own Fashion.