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Post from January, 2012

Jan 06

Dream To Seam – Agatha Ruiz De La Prada

Friday, 6. January 2012 10:29

Dream To Seam – Agatha Ruiz de la Prada from modaCYCLE on Vimeo.

modaCYCLE’s Seth Friedermann sits down with famed Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada for an in-depth interview about how she works. This is the second episode of the Dream To Seam series.

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Jan 06

Visiting MoMA – Notes

Friday, 6. January 2012 10:23

On December 28th, 2011, returning from visiting family in Virginia on an early flight, and having found myself recently intrigued by the collected writings of the artist Paul Gauguin, I was inspired to go to The Museum of Modern Art. These are my notes, scribbled into a miniature Moleskine notebook.

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