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The umbrellas I want to carry
Written by Daniel P Dykes
"Sigmund Freud contends that aggressiveness is a fundamental human instinct whose inhibition is a necessary obligation of social life. These umbrellas combine a symbol of gentlemanly refinement--the full-sized, black umbrella--with an element from more manly sword-bearing times. The umbrellas offer brief psychological respite from the dictates of social amiability."
I tuned out somewhere around 'Freud' and just started to really want these umbrellas in all their refined nafness. Alas they're just art: Umbrellas for the Civil but Discontent Man is designed by Bruce and Stephanie Tharp of Materious.
If/When (better be when!) they go into production I have dibs on the broad sword and officers sword. The rest of you can fight it out over the samurai sword.
Written: 26th March 2009 at 18.43
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Written by Daniel P Dykes.
Traditionalist and futurist are two of the labels applied to Daniel, but he sees the two as being in perfect balance. With a keen eye on the future and his finger on the pulse he helps keep fashionisers everywhere ahead in the fashion stakes as Fashionising.com's lead fashion trend analyst. Believing that the late-2000s credit crisis will be ultimately good for fashion, Daniel sees a future for fashion where grounded in traditional values; where luxury fashion again comes to represent quality production as opposed to being solely label driven.
Currently based in Melbourne, Daniel is Fashionising.com's Editor in Chief and Chairman.