EGYPT

In the summer of 2008, 10 friends and I took a trip to Egypt and traveled up the Nile River. While I was there I kept a sketchbook - and in it, I gathered and drew images that visually encompassed the trip for me. Below are some of the pages.





These are some clothing sketches and textile prints that were inspired by the images contained in my sketchbook from Egypt.

WATCH ME I'M REALLY GOOD

Like I said . . . watch me, I'm really good.

AMERICAN INDIANS

THEDA BARA AND SOME

IRINA

I have a lot of favorites, but Irina Ionesco is really it for me as her pictures capture the imagery that I find most beautiful. Her parents were supposedly circus performers and gypsies from Romania. Irina lived there for most of her childhood until they moved to Paris. She was a painter before she discovered photography and took quite a few controversial pictures of her young daughter - one of which I posted above.

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I do not know who the woman is in the first picture, but I do know that her lipstick job is primo. The rest of the pictures are of a lady by the name of Renee Perle who is one of my heros, as far as fashion goes anyway.

AISHA