Last night, I finally saw Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love. The cinematography of Yorick Le Sau is extraordinary. And Tilda Swinton is stunning… Manohla Dargis wrote an interesting review for the New York Times. I love this last paragraph: “The chase ends in a sylvan perch, where Antonio and Emma make love amid a cacophony of bird calls and a flurry of close-ups of luscious flowers being ravaged by insects. It’s a sublimely beautiful interlude and a touch ridiculous, bringing to mind the blooms of a portentous rose bush in D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers that “expanded in an ecstasy,” a prelude to later forest rutting. Here, the flora and fauna constitute an alternative reality far from the villa that has become Emma’s sarcophagus and which will at last inspire at least one bird to take flight. As the working-class seducer, Antonio serves a Lawrentian stud function, though truth be told, he’s the kind of sensitive beefcake (he cooks and fulfills her sexually) familiar to readers of women’s romantic fiction, who, like Emma, enjoy their afternoons wet and wasted.” But then, I have never been afraid of Lawrence. In fact, truth be told, I got into design school because of Lawrence, Marquis de Sade and the Alexandria Quartet from Lawrence Durrell. But then, I digress… I Am Love: A Feast For the Senses

December 29, 2010
Love the movie and your clothing and can’t wait to join you in 2011 for a weekend workshop after seeing you on the Smithsonian Highlight Program on Design. Especially appreciated the fact that it is and American product made by American people.