January, 6th, 2019

HO’OPONOPONO NEW YEAR
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“Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship. Yet I see sales departments given control over editorial. I see my own publishers, in a silly panic of ignorance and greed, charging public libraries for an e-book six or seven times more than they charge customers. We just saw a profiteer try to punish a publisher for disobedience, and writers threatened by corporate fatwa. And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this — letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write. Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words. My job is to keep the meaning completely embodied in the work itself, and therefore alive and capable of change. I think that’s how an artist can best speak as a member of a moral community: clearly, yet leaving around her words that area of silence, that empty space, in which other and further truths and perceptions can form in other minds.” The ever humble #UrsulaLeGuin. Story is context. Context is texture. Texture is fashion. Hoping 2019 will be intelligent social networking, and less crazy orneriness; be elevated creativity and less buzz just to make people talk; be true art, less greed. A year ago, #ChristianDiorAD’ 70 years of @Dior’s lavishnesses were celebrated in a grandiose scenography by Nathalie Crinière @MADParis with curators @Olivier_GABET, #ArtsDecoratifs Museums Director and @FlorenceMuller99, Avenir Foundation Curator of Textile Art and Fashion, @DenverArtMuseum. We, indeed, are in a dire need of a neo breed. Couturiers, du rêve.
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#ALESSANDROBERGA | L’ÉDITOR
#PARIS #MODEDIPLOMATIQUE (at Musée des Arts décoratifs)
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