Igniting my affections

are these handsome knits from Swedish designer Sandra Backlund from her FW '09/'10 collection. A harmonic wave along the median between complexity and simplicity, her pieces are compelling and completely wearable. They also manage to look utterly comfortable! I can imagine........ Awesome how she worked with the dredges of the tight-fitting body con trend and injected renewed life, volume, and softness into it. Digging those amorphous bumps like the styrofoam packing. Mmmm... Sweet! Tingly! My goosebumps are coming out. And jolts of frissons are shooting through my veins! Aggh!!!

But seriously, I really, really marvel at how she has the skill. With knits you have to work with a more difficult form of technology than the sewing machine, well, obviously the knitting machine. How input into computer without computer fail :( ? Everyone should go watch Space Odyssey, it is poetic, has gorillas and an evil computer called HAL. *Shudder* It shows why mankind will not be replaced by chips and metal. If there ever comes a scheme where they wanna plant a microchip in you for security purposes for example for identification, think twice!

I also like how the photographs are taken. There is a mood of fragility because it's so stark, you are able to see so clearly the beauty in the symmetry. Take care in looking, not to break that. Human versus Machine, HUMAN forms symbiotic relationship with machine, owns machine. HUMAN WIN!!! Again, pictures say thousands of words. FEAST YOUR EYES ON THEM NOW!!!


P.S. Hi Knitting Machine, can I call you KM? I can't wait to meet you when I go to design school, hopefully, we'll have a frightfully good time with you not attacking me with your needly things and have such nice bebes such as these!

-Miss C.