Project Runway

So i'm watching pject rway (as per usual) and i was just so moved by something completely tiny and meaningless and as with all things that move me i decided someone else needed to know!

so on said episode, the designers are prompted to design clothes for children, a project runway first, and one of the designers has an interesting idea. she merely said "when i was young, my sister was in a play etc etc and i was always so jealous of this outfit that she got to wear so i'm going to make THAT." obviously not that profound of an idea, but i found it so beautiful to imagine that every designer or every artist creates something that other people can love and appreciate from something they once loved or appreciated.

i can't describe why this is so meaningful to me, maybe it's the fact that so many of my memories of childhood, or even life in general, are centered around brief moments, fleeting scents or images, or outfits, even, like the white linen dress my mother wore when she picked me up from the airport after i'd been in iceland one summer, or the velvet peach skirt she made for me to wear to my fifth grade graduation. these stick in my mind like prickly thorns and if i was talented in any way i would recreate them and infuse them with the beauty they give to me, but of course i can't.

i love thinking that art or design is so exquisitely personal that we are honored to view it. of course this pretty much eliminates modern or abstract art, which inherently is something new, different, shocking, unknown, but these are just the ramblings of a silly lady watching tv on her computer. i will never stop loving project runway, and i will never stop believing that clothes are more important than we think.