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a Timeless Collection & Presentation Look-Book No. 4 by American Manufacturing

MODE IN FANTA

FAIRY TALES DO EXIST.. IF WE WANTED THEM TO

WE are coming to a time when attachment to everything WE know is no longer relevant. A time when WE question everything -- our language, culture, even our own bodies -- a time for letting go, going deeper, being more connected and, a time when WE lift the veil and see the truth of anything…

Only the llusion of Fashion is Necessary

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CONTENTS

1. Fashion Plates 2. Fairytales Do Exist! 3. Our InterConnectedness 4. Techno FrenzY 5. Fantasy Park 6. Communications 7. A Fashion Comapany is Reborn 8. Only Nature Works 9. Buildings and Homes 10. It Takes a Green Village 11. Glamour and the Grassroots 12. Conclusion

Fashion Plates in-Defense of the WE’LDERNEss

classic collection & presentation of American Manufacturing Look-Book no. 4

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Imagine you were to create your own world, how would it look? The ansWEr would simply be…It would Look just like planet earth because there is no comparison... WE’ve got the oceans and waves. WE’ve got the rivers. WE can go swimming in the lakes. WE’ve got mountains, deserts, animals, plants -- and its all so functional and works perfectly and amazingly WE are so blessed WE get to waddle and crawl and jump for joy on this virgin beautiful blue marvel that is rolling in the heavens and the universe. WE are extraterrestrial travelling in most stylish space ship. If WE stood back and look at the bigger picture it is easy to see. Yes! WE are living in the most magical kingdom that could ever exist and it’s called planet earth. Bam! II. The Space WE Create

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Paradise is not only defined by her outward appearance or correlating physical shape and characteristics. It is defined by the space WE create-- the space generated by selfless love and compassion. It is Something we strive to for. If WE lived in the most beautiful and picture perfect place but are selfish, competitive, and greedy, it is not paradise. Inversely, if WE invested in a deeper and more integral relationship and realized our true connection to one another and the world, WE could be living in a dump and it would still living in a place of beauty and well being. Nature is regenerative. Our relationships with each other is critical on how WE treat each other, the world, and nature. As soon as WE cease seeing each other based on poWEr structures that keep us pitted against one another, the sooner WE will free ourselves from influence of poWEr and build a better world based on equality, love, and respect for one another. This is the space WE create.

pose in life. Positive emotions, a variety of plants and a reappraisal of one’s essence and purpose in life -- all these are capable not only of counteracting disease but also of significantly enhancing one’s physical and mental or emotional state *there are several main causes underlying the disease of the human psyche and flesh, namely: harmful feelings, emotions, and the artificial dietary regime, a lack of short-term and long-term goals, and misapprehension of one’s essence and purpose in life. Positive emotions, a variety of plants and a reappraisal of one’s essence and purpose in life -- all these are capable not only of counteracting disease but also of significantly enhancing one’s physical and mental or emotional state

~ Towards An Idea ~ One of the gravest mistakes of // religion // is to reverse the program and preoccupy people by training them to leave the earth (after-life) instead of recognizing we probably created this world ourselves for ourselves. To create paradise on earth is to correct our relationships patterns with one another and bring about a brotherhood of man. Thus, help each other raise our consciousness to a higher level -- with nature as our guide and teacher. When WE look beyond man-made languages, cultures, and habits and begin to put our separations and divisions aside and see what WE have in common instead of focusing on our difference, WE begin to realize that as people begin to be more trusting and less doubting and more loving and less indifferent, all of the old attributes or old ways, the negative ways, those things are going be put aside and eventually disappear -If WE are going to see the wisdom in coming together to envision a better world, without hunger or environmental injustice ~ while that world is barreling down to us -- it is reaching out to us, as WE reach out to it -- the more of us that begin to envision and share this vision of a better world, the sooner it will come.

The personal maturing process that WE must undergo makes us aware that the outer layer is only an instrument. The important thing is to develop the inner capacity. The external doesn’t affect the inner self unless, the inner calls it out. It is hoped that the inner side and outers side develops simultaneously and the more WE expand outside, the deeper WE have to develop those inner capacities to match it. If it’s not inside, the outside becomes instable. And a crisis ensues. In fashion, A “fashion-crises” is when there are too many clothes but no ideas to support it... So all WE have are empty vessels crowding a space. We’ve all seen zombie or vampire movies? Because they are bodies without organs, they consume the living tissue of others in order to stay alive. This is a very serious thing. WE got to understand it: The more WE expand outside, the more WE have to go deep inside. If the outer and inner is not matched in capacity, it leads to an implosion, dysfunction and collapse.

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~ The Shared Experience ~ When WE know our innermost visions and desires, WE gain possession of a higher undertaking… The ancient often depicted man’s growth and development as a giant stairway on which he would climb, beginning with ignorance and ascending to the heights of illumination or wisdom. One of the first rungs of that ladder is called LOVE …and the higher you go up the ‘ladder’ the farther you will see. Since LOVE enlightens us, it effectively triumphs over ignorance and the darkest elements of human nature. It diminishes our capacity to hate, prevents us from becoming selfish and wicked, and dispels damaging emotions such as pride, jealousy, or envy. It also inspires us to follow common goals, values, and principles that unify humanity through shared experience. The “highest” LOVE that WE can imagine can only be known through the joint effort of people from all around the world. The images created by these peoples bright contemplations and actions will merge into a single, clear, fulfilled image of conscious awareness. The simultaneity of bright thoughts will intensify each person’s ability many times more. The more people there are who envision it, the closer WE come, the brighter the image, and the higher WE get, the more WE will see, the more beautiful our fashion will be (beauty is relative).

~ reversing the images ~ Images have a poWErful influence on the way WE see the world. And until WE change the images that influence us nothing will change. But it’s not the images themselves that need to be changed. It’s the nature of the images that need to change. That is, WE need to reverse the order of the images: turn them inside out, upside down or left to right. Do whatever so that images follow life rather than life following images. Letting go of our present ideas (images in our head) if it means challenging our culture, fashion and language, and even the foods WE eat that keep our vision impaired//locking us into customs, habits, and routine. For now, tradition and culture are exteranl realities that prevent us from evolving. It’s imperative that WE are letting go of our present attachments so that a new one can emerge. ~Learning from the living not just from books or magazines but from personal experience, living and bringing consciousness down, from the mind into the body. When you realize society and systems are only tools, instruments for us to utilize and are not permanent fixtures. What WE need to be talking about doing is implementing the next step in fashion evolution, trying to get on a higher or more advanced level. Tapping into a higher consciousness and leaping to other world of fantasies, dreams and visions. The more beautiful our fashion will be.

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Ultimately WE are working together, WE are sharing, WE are committed to one another, WE are brothers and sisters and lovers. I’m gonna grow some cabbage, you growing carrots. That’s aWEsome... It’s time to join the natural world and become a part of its expression (instead of fighting aginst it). Elevating the souls purpose is by knowing and understanding the process and by expressing it and living it. It is obvious that the purpose of life is to come together to experience unity and brotherhood. Being separate and learning to overcome separateness is what WE are alredy doing.

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I believe that the old ways are coming back again. The cultural experience that people had long ago. The group experience it is happening right now. WE have been trying to create that group experience through different means. The youth culture movements all strive to create that experience. And continues to reinvent itself.

WEre getting more intelligent. WE have more tools at our dis~ communications posal. WE have~more skills. WE have more knowledge. WE have more friends... e was a one-way thing. It WEnt from kings to WErs, Fashion to an audience. Avant-garde artsilence by engaging the audience in a converut artist trying to break the “artist-audience” reew. It has been going on for sometime already. o of their established ideas. Its still where the audience listens. There is no time when the audience” and becomes part of the thing.

WE can create. WE are creative. WE are creativity. A place that encourages our generosity. A place where WE can learn to give. If WE found a place somewhere tucked away, in the mountains, WE are not going to try and profit from each other. If you and I, and ten of our friends got together, WE’re gonna try something different. What is money? Money is a promise made betWEEn people. WE dont need a third party to negotiate that for US. A money-less society (direct economy) is a by-product of love betWEEn people.

~ man’s Law ~ the anti-thesis The ordinary man has to put in a certain amount of extraordinary energy to pull him out of a system that isn’t designed to assist him. So then, in order for anyone to get ahead, you are going to do it in that kind of energy pattern. In an energy pattern of control… restriction… The only way that you can pull yourself out is by having a force of will that is stronger than the force of will that is trying to control you. And you have to pull from inside an energy a bit like WEll, imagine you are swimming along in a swimming pool and you’re down at the bottom of the pool and you are holding your breath and a swamp thing, grabs you by the ankle. How much would you want to swim to the surface? You know, how much effort would you need to put into getting out and getting a breath of air. But of course, that’s a bunch of hoo-ey. You dont need to be a superman to survive. You only have to look at nature. You can look at a cherry tree or an apricot tree and it has more apricots on it than you can ever eat. It has that splendid abundance naturally. If man designed an apricot tree. It would have two itty bitty apricots on the top where its hard to reach. And it would be a little stale and you would have to have permission to climb and get a certificate for it when you got it. And a third of the apricot would belong to someone else. So eventually you would wind up with just a pit and a little bit of apricot. And that’s how the system created by man is rigged.

~ b/c everyone wants to rule the world ~ The best way to describe mans world is to recognize that WE live in a paradigm of poWEr which is concentrated on the top like in the shape of a pyramid. That is because everyone is trying to get to the top. And in order to do so, WE have to climb over someone using them as leverage. From an early age WE are taught to compete, get ahead, everyone out for themselves, there’s not enough for everyone, fight or die. WE have been living in this paradigm of power for so long that WE believe it is who WE are and accept that its perfectly natural and normal. A good example of someone on the top of the pyramid paradigm in fashion is Vogue, Louis Vuitton, or Zara, Forever21, UniQlo, H&M... They are absolutely at the top. The very truth is that WE don’t love them because they make beautiful things. WE love them because they are on top so that all can see. So what WE think is beautiful or in ‘good taste’ is more of a certificate of ownership or nod of approval to a fashion ‘dictatorship’.

Actually, no one is really in control of the fashion paradigm. You cannot blame the people at the top of the paradigm for creating it. The paradigm is a process, idea, or philosophy. The people at the top of the paradigm are merely reflecting the desires and ideology of the para-

digm. We are all responsible.

* The ToWEr of Babel is a depiction of people focus on self-interest and poWEr. Which has almost always been misinterpreted to be an actual toWEr? There is a common “shared” interest of selfishness and greed. Each building their own castle and walls. Each generations outdoing the previous until they are so walled-in and isolated they have created their own language and customs. And lacking communications, they become suspicious and fearful of other. Today’s scholars totally miss the point, and are still trying to prove that an actual toWEr of Babel exists ((⊙ ‿ ⊙)!) rather than see them as lessons, intened to warn us, WE can learn from.

~ the boogie man is a story we told to keep our kids in line ~ and reaffirm the narrative WE are often told stories about the boogie man.. that the world is full of monsters and evil people. If life starts this way, it begins to inform other aspects of life. It crowds and influences the way WE think. It creates a world view affecting how WE build our homes and cities, how WE deal with strangers and how WE think about the universe and aliens or just people different than ourselves. Almost Everything in the world -as now- reinforces this kind of mainstream thought and behavior. So then the boogie man becomes a world view and the adopted reality. And those who desire control over others rig the consensus machine to keep the boogie man in power. Fortunately, more and more people see through this unveiling. Connecting with like-minded people makes it possible. Indeed connecting with other people, overcoming differences, communicating and working together to create new processes is the way out. To break free from the boogie man paradigm, and replace the current narrative, whom has and incredible poWEr and magnetism over us, WE must function with an even greater power. The power of a WE. Which is love, compassion, brotherly love. And direct our thoughts and actions towards making this a reality. This what is possible with fashion.

But for now, Money takes away the poWEr of community and contributes to an impoverished mindset. By making money primary, WE become independent of one another (no need for one another). Giving more relevance to a third party far away to give meaning and expression to our relationships. Rather than creating meaning by oursleves, WE get our authority from a third party. It is having no faith in people, no faith in community. It is because WE have alloWEd it, Money defines our world, not people. The same Money is killing the earth, polluting our water, destroying the soils and clearing forest. Can we break free from the money habit and imagine a different kind of house, different kinds of clothes or purpose that does not reflect on money? The money WE use today was not created by us nor does it belong to us. It was created in a different time with different people and needs. Even if WE have essentially changed, the same patterns of behaviors’ and thoughts that created money influence us, displacing our real hopes and dreams. -if

the world was artificial, how can we expect a natural outcome?

~ the importance of communications ~ It used to be that dialogue was a oneway street. It WEnt from kings to people, Pope to folloWErs, Fashion to audience. Avant-garde artists tried to break this silence by engaging the audience in a conversation. The thing about artist trying to break the “artist-audience” relationship is nothing new. It has been going on for sometime already. But, people don’t let go of their established ideas. Its still where the artists speaks and the audience listens. There is no time when the audience stops being “audience” and becomes part of the thing.

If people were to engage in a conversation, it would form some kind of action -- where groups of people are speaking like Native Americans or Aboriginals, rather then individuals. Where there is no I, only WE ~ together there is not an obstacle to solving our environmental crises or create something WE \

want. The purpose of communication is to bring people together. It is predicated on WE are separated and communication allows us to overcome our differences to break the barrier of separation and bring us closer together. The kind of communication evident in social networking technologies, in our desire to communicate and interact, to share information, and work together remains latent potential which is hidden. People tend to dismiss those ideas about “coming together”. It sometimes feels sad after a conversation, when two people leave one another still divided. WE can’t ever seem to tear down the walls of separation. I mean, “I have my idea and, you have yours, the end.” The common misconception about communications is that it’s about self-expression and individuality. WE define our own separate realities apart from one another. So that everyone is completely alone in developing their own meaning. Thereby, creating a language of separateness and reinforcing the illusion of our difference. ~ social and environmental injustice is a direct result of our being separate from one another. and communication hopes to bring it back.

~ beatuiful communications ~ Magic is not about mysterious potions and incantations hocus po-

cus. Magic happens when two people meet and fall in love and, they create a language of their own. That’s why WE sometimes like things of the past. Or WEird and mysterious things. there is no master and its existence is somewhat magical. Magic is a kind of language whose purpose is to communicate in a concise way through the language of symbols. When I give magic, whether it be by using the palm of my hands to heal or a magical gesture, it awakens the soul and communicates directly to your heart. What makes it magical is that there is a connection to that part of their mind which is activated instantaneously. A kind of lovers only understanding. And the more lovers agree, the more poWErful the magic. Magic only works when WE are in agreement. In this sense, magic is a tool. It no longer works when that \\ tool is broken \\ and the magic of the language is gone. For so long the media defined what that has meant for us. And the magic of the media captivated our imaginations. But we will break the magic of the media and create our own language.

The Quality is not de ned by its physical characteristics alone. Quality is de ned by the ability to bring people together. The closer and more integral communications, the better the quality. It has to be close enough so that people are able to make contact on a daily basis, it has to be close enough for the development of some kind of action, or direct points of gathering, like a place where WE know each other and can therefore create new situations, if I write and someone reads it, there is no dialogue, there is only monologue . In conversation you are able to make points and change your point of view -- what is meant by collective creation (A Fashion-Event for Fashion Week 1992). Quality is defined by the ability to bring people together. The closer and more integral it is, the better the quality. It has to be close enough so that people are able to make contact on a daily basis, it has to be close enough for the development of some kind of action, or direct points of gathering, like a place where WE know each other and can therefore create new situations, if I write and someone reads it, there is no dialogue, there is only monologue . In conversation you are able to make points and change your point of view -- what is meant by collective creation (A Fashion-Event for Fashion Week 1992).

In the old world, WE inhabited pre-existing or prefabricated cities. In the new world WE create new ones.

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~ a universal departure ~ When WE realize our true nature, WE might think that it is impossible to reimagine the world in our current cities where there is a tendency to be attracted aesthetically and emotionally to those things that undermine us. Our current cities are an impediment rather than something that supports new thoughts and behaviors. To free ourselves, we need to remove ourselves from the current range of house and cities. In order to transform our world, we need to transform how we engage with one another and our world and that starts with creating new homes and villages that reflect our values. and aesthetic creativity.

~transition towns We listen to our hearts and come togethher to form intential or transitional communties or we risk losing our freedoms by doing things separtely, potentially at odds or unintentionally. unintentinally means haphazardly, thoughtless, while as sleep, potentially at odds, separation. which leads to everyone looking outforthemselves, a subterfuge. (from the old adage: divide&conquer) on the other hand, intentially is predicated on communications and overcoming differences. intentionally is mutual aid, cooperation, working things out in common. Letting go of previous wrong ideas and forming new ideas, clothing, homes, self through the new shift in perspective. the space we create, a creation of a new space, a place we built together, a city of our own creations. Dream city. ---WE no longer need the constraints of a preexisting cities, town, culture, or an industry to cramp our style. WE can be independent. WE have the creativity and expertise. WE can built the a village of our own dreams. Boring buildings, boring art and fashion, poor aesthetics are a thing of the past. WE can create aesthetically beautiful self styled homes that match our maturity and natural understanding. Complete new towns of our own ‘free-will’ and look sexy and having fun while doing it. the new aesthetics based on cooperation and working together and assistance of our fellow earthlings will discern a new level of artistic and aesthetic creativity. a languag of our own.

~ mode in fantasy ~ Finding a place or a situation that allows us to live according to our own values (instead of adopting to the values of what’s around us) isn’t about discovering someplace that already exists. It has to be created by the very same values which WE desire (not a hindsight). The values themselves by which a place comes to existence is the place WE are searching for. Does not exist unless WE bring it to life. Our own participation in the making of the place is the actual practice of those values which WE are seeking (basis). It cannot exist without us or without our participation. The place WE seek cannot exist unless WE create it. When such a place exists it becomes a reflection of those values by which it comes to exist for. If WE want the world to reflect the values WE seek, WE have to create it. The world is built on the values which WE have defined for it. By reevaluating those values for ourselves, WE will inevitably want to mirror it. By redefining our values WE eventually change the world. This means ever ything will change as a natural expression of our changing values. By holding on to old values, WE are unable to cre ate change. But when WE let go of those values, ever ything will change. Change happens when we adapt new values.

~ call to the wild ~ What if all most fashionable geniuses...the artists, the scientists, the smartest most creative people in the world decided to get together and actually change it? Where can they do such a thing? They would need a place free from politics, bureaucracy, distractions, greed. A secret place where they could build whatever they WEre crazy enough to imagine and to test the boundaries of their creativity.

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*the old role of cities as places that you go to in order to experience hard-to-find culture is over (now everywhere and anywhere).

~ a living magazine ~ to disrupt the current range, WE document our day-to-day life, a Living diary or magazine. A real place that you go to, not just a fantasy in the pages of a fashion magazine -- but the actual breathing, human, conceptual idea, “the dream” erected or manifested. WE don’t just say “another world is possible.” WE are another world. --- from a space of lack competition and everyone our for his own to a space of compassion and working together guided by the principles forces of ‘play’ (see A Fashion-Event For Fashion Week 1992). Putting words and ideas in to action and practice. Not just talking about it, but actually doing it. ~~~ WE don’t sell dreams. WE live it. It’s a place that you can actually go to. Bring your cameras and post them 365 days a year, its real. You will do this because it is a normal, everyday occurrence -------WE don’t need to hire photographers or take ads in Fashion Magazines. Our set happens 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year. And our models are real people, living out their own fantasies and dreams. Not models WE hire to impose our ideas. You can come to an actual place anytime you like and meet people who don’t sell you anything, they live it! And if you like, you can participate and become a part of its cultural activities and production. You can WEar fantasy clothes, live in a fantasy home, eat fantasy fruit or vegetables, or anything else and discover for yourself, by the horses nose, what is fact or fiction?

Fairy-tales do exist! (if you want them to)

War is Over! (if WE want it) & WE are not the only ones

VI: a fashion company is reborn

~ important fashion work ~ Fashion belongs in the public domain where it can have a bigger impact on society. If it belongs to institutions, individuals or money, it does noth to benefit the public domain. When fashion is public domain, it is in direct alignment with peoples values and interest. But When institutions owns public space, the purpose is to serve the elite, status, WEalth, and poWEr. How institutions gained poWEr is because it reflected the old story of the self. The one that said WE are individuals separate from one another. And everything outside is hostile towards us. The institution is a reflection of the old story of the self. But a new story about the self is emerging. The one that says WE are connected. That earth, nature, people and everything around us is a part of us. Even though this new story is becoming more and more evident, institutions still own the fashion networks: the factories, magazines, and visual space and language. While the Gucci & LV of the world, no longer resonate with us, they control the human story by controlling the messages. They tell us, WE are greedy, selfish, crave poWEr, and sex. The fallacy is that they make beautiful things. The truth is WE accept them because they are in poWEr. By challenging conventional beauty: WE completely overturn the established principles of fashion and society by emancipating ourselves from institutionalized poWEr & hierarchy. Not giving way to status, poWEr, WEalth...Because there is no way WE are going to make the world a better place if… I’m better than you, I’m richer than you, I’m smarter than you, I’m better looking, etc.

~ exposing the seams ~ When WE peel back the layers of fashion it reveals worlds WE thought impossible. A much more extraordinary fashion than the eye can see. Long before recorded history, there WEre advanced civilizations that exceeds our own -- creating maps of stars, advanced time, and technology todays science are only beginning to understand what the ancient knew long ago. The discovery of ancient civilizations is hidden from public eye because it contradicts the ‘official’ version of history (that man is relatively new to the earth and WE evolved from monkeys). WE don’t like to re-look at history because it triggers every social convention and puts into question who WE really are and what are our origins. Archaeologists who dare to question it are beginning to uncover evidence that ancient people WEre much more advanced then WE thought. They had a profound connection to nature and spirit, lived harmoniously and in the most fantastical dream escapes where trees are sizes of mountains and free energy machines existed. A time pre-money (gifting economy, contributionism). There were long periods of peace and prosperity, and no wars.

...and a great flood came and washed it all away...

So much evidence has been destroyed whether these claims are fact or fiction can not be known. However, all WE can know is there are as many versions of history as there are versions of fashion. And exploring “new” fashion is about experiencing different paths and points of views and subsequently better ways of doing and seeing things

~ fashion & history are synonymous ~ Fashion & history are synonymous. If you don’t like our current version of history, or you disagree with it, it is impossible to like contemporary fashion. That is why there is a deep level of interest in fashion. And since everyone is heavily invested in the clothes they WEar (nothing worse then mistaken identity), design becomes a critical form

of self-defense…WE designers are always trying to change fashion. But regardless of how original or exciting the clothes may be, the problem is what is being signified remains the same. Fashion isn’t able to change history because there is no inherent meaning in clothes except the values placed on them by people: “Black” does not means black and “white” does not mean white unless people give them appropriate meaning. Furthermore, there no such thing as ‘good or bad taste’. Good or bad is relative. It is good if it reflects societal values. And it is bad if it does not. By wearing contemporary fashion, it signals our consent. (whats the purpose of making new fashion but to challenge the status quo?)

~ fashion w/o representation ~ -the mistaken identity - perilous fashion In the early 90s, young designers WEre getting a lot of media attention. The old watchdogs of fashion relaxed their guard for a moment and young designers slipped through the front doors and onto covers of magazines. And ladies from the upper side WEre taking notice… What ensued was a crisis in the luxury goods sector which prompted a secret boardroom meeting of fashion elites. Asserting, “with the Grunge and Decon thing, no one is buying makeup or perfumes. and If we dont do something about it, we’ll all be out of business!” And so, a clever idea was devised to hire an upcoming “young designers” to head the dying house of couture. Overnight

the fashion script was rewritten, and The big fashion was back in business! Everyone knows that the big fashion houses have been bankrupt for more than 25 years. Yet they continue to dominate and control the market by buying out profitable young designer [giving us the illusion of choice] and exporting luxury goods to developing countries, who are overly eager to show off new money. Although “young designers” are a permanent fixture of international design today, nothing special is happening because the almighty fashion logic reigns supreme over them and ultimately the consciousness of billions of people in the world.

~NOTE~ Although the fashion elite are undeniably influential, the world has certain expectations of them. So maybe fashion was created by people who WEren’t actually in fashion. Peoples illusion of fashion WEre being materialized. And it’s a false assumption that the elites are in control! The real owners of fashion are consumers. The real push for change must come from them. WE can’t change fashion until people do. > it is not individual. It is systematic.

~ nothing new in young design ~ Youth culture has always been about creating an independent thing (ie independent fashion). It has less to do with beauty or finding appropriate self-expression. WE all have something in common: The street vendor, punk, hippie, or new age movement. WE measure each other by the level of participation and strengthening and building the community. The logic would be, “why would I want to give away our poWEr to those who don’t give a damn about me?” Rather than give it away to people WE don’t like, WE give it to people WE do like (and who support and have similar values and principles). People instinctually want to buy young designers for this reason. New aesthetics is about empoWEring community by redirecting what would normally gravitate towards the general economy (aesthetic w/o acgtion or program) and keep it within a manageable framework. WE adopt new aesthetic values that suit our aesthetic needs which best serves our community and are often zealous when one of our own succeeds. Power to the people!. HoWEver, the problem with young designers is they mimic the same structural patterns and behaviors as the big, more established fashion houses (only on a smaller scale). There are literally thousands of young fashion designers, magazines and WEbsite clamoring for the same visual space often succumbing to economic and social pressures rather than create their own thing. Those who WEar “nonconformist” or “weird” fashion are often regarded as outcasts, are our true heroes of fashion. They allow us to break free from mono-culture (status quo) and explore new frontiers.

~ fashion insider perspective ~ The whole thing about Decon fashion was that it was supposed to lift the veil on fashion by exposing the “seams” showing us whats beneath -- a kind of “off you” to fashion. But instead of seeing it that way, WE were mesmerized by the technique and mistook them as new aesthetic forms. When in fact it was only a commentary view on the same old storyline. In the end, fashion wins not us.

~ fashion outsider perspective ~ It doesn’t matter what you WEar, a t-shirt and jeans are made in the same way as a red carpet gown. The only difference is that one will admit they are a fashion victim while the other thinks they arnt. Who is fooling who? The t-shirt and jeans you are WEaring is owned by the same company as the red carpet gown. They are controlled by the same mechanism that makes them go in and out of fashion.

~ I or We ~ So many clothes(I) exists, that it gives us the illusion of fashion(WE). The more clothes there are, the more real“WE”seem. And the more real it is, the more WE want to belong. So that wanting becomes a ‘desire’. And since desire can never be vanquished, WE inadvertently give in to it. All over the world, people are giving up their regional fashion by replacing them with a generic look and feel (disguised as “modern”). Unless you are white, skinny, and pubescent you are not in fashion. WE are literally being told what is beautiful. As the world adopts what’s coming out of New York, Paris, or London fashion, local indigenous fashion is silently disrobing. WEstern standards of beauty is conformist, reductionist, scientific, logical. Although styles appear different on the surface whether classical conservatism, street WEar, rock, hip-hop, jazz, modernism,

urban decay, etc., they are inherently the same, the same fashion magazines publish them, and the distribution is the same. WE may not be able to see it unless WE use ethnic fashion for comparison. For example, in Native American fashion, there is no “I” there is only “WE”. The poWEr of Native fashion is that it cannot be separated from its people. All ethnic fashion in the world are essentially similar in comparison to WEstern fashion in this regard. Ethnic fashion is about nature, community, brotherhood, togetherness, identity with a group of people… That is something that is categorically nonexistent in WEstern fashion. If WE really want to create something with a fresh perspective, fashion must be changed from “I” to a ‘WE’.

~ reterritorializing the realm ~ If WE are going rescue fashion from extinction, WE gotta create our own damn thing. Not being able to make our own clothes disempoWErs us. Choosing manufactured goods over local artisans separates us from one another and complicates meaning. (Young designers Often restort to making fashion really extreme or weird/arbitrary). Note: Since, <50% of our visual landscape is occupied by fashion imagery, dismissing it effectively numbs down our ability to communicate. Meaningless information clutter our communication landscape with meaningless information that speaks and tells us who we are in our-stead. ~Should fashion be the dominion of billions of people who unwittingly hand poWEr over to institutions to define our fashion? Do WE really need or want someone from 7th ave. cooped in an office with no fresh air or natural light to dictate what WE should WEar

or how to think? By taking fashion into our own hands, WE take control of what our clothes mean. Zombie designers and their devotees will try to copy OUR fashion but they can’t copy our reasons. If they do, they will become part of our story :-)).

~ context is everything ~ There is no such thing as inherent beauty! Beauty is a projection. A man-made social construct. what WE see as beautiful is designed to arrest our attention (ooh la la!) and stop us from thinking.

A consistent letting go of the old and replacing with the new should tell us beauty does not come from genes. It varies betWEEn cultures and location and changes from time to time. Anything can be considered beautiful, it just depends on who or whats in fashion. The science delusion (part of whats in-fashion), tells us everything is fixed and permanent. That beauty is defined by science. How is that possible? If you marry a pretty wife and she is a bitch that face will soon become ugly to you. The world hardly gives us a reason to wear “beautiful” fashion. What WE see as beautiful is merely an illusion or mirage. If the world is ugly, then we must wear ugly clothes to reflect the truth of whats going on. Hence, our fashion is ugly. The only option if we like beautiful clothes is to create our own fantasy world. Instead of trying to find meaning in forms, WE find meaning in context. The context is more important than the clothes.

WITHOUT A COHESIVE CONTEXT BY WHICH TO RELATE EVERYTHING IS FOUNDLESS AND INFERIOR

~ stopping time ~ When the Zapatistas rebelled against the Mexican government, who came out to greet them? Vogue did. Vogue didn’t come out to report on clothing. Vogue, along with Harpers Bazaar and Vanity Fair came out to report on a story. Some would say, it was Vogue and Vanity Fair who saved them from disbanding. That’s because the Mexican army didn’t want to have a fashion affair be spoiled by blood. The story is what captivated us, the story was first, preceding and prior, the art and fashion folloWEd. Yet, WE are often discouraged from telling stories just by the speed of things, stories do not have time to develop. As soon as something is introduced, WE are off to the next thing. When you are only concerned with surfaces, The smoother the surface the more aerodynamic the trajectory. WE are caught in the illusion of time and things are appearing to be moving faster as faster. But WE haven’t gone anywhere. Stories are not linear, stories are about a time. As in “once upon a time” or “time of my life”. time has depth, time has warmth, time is healing, it is memorable, it has meaning. That is why WE like costumes so much. It’s because it’s backwards in time. It goes against the ticking of the clock. It stops time.

Did you know that birds originally mimic the sound of the earth? When there was no human noise pollution, the birds heard the sounds of the earth and mimicked it. Now they mimic each other and lost their ability to hear subtle sounds from the earth. The earth may have changed its sound frequencies but because human noise pollution drowns it out and the birds are unaware of the subtle changes in the earth frequencies. The same way the birds are separated from the source of their singing, humans are separated from nature. WE mimic each other and follow the laws of man, separated from nature. Being disconnected from nature causes temporary insanity. To restore our sanity WE need to connect back with nature. WE need to listen to the earth and hear with our hearts and hands. Let go of who WE think WE are and listen to nature. Be like a child, open.

only nature works

~ nature is a mirror ~ Nature is not a place you go to. Nature is within. The nature inside is reflected outwards. Whats inside is out. They are mirrors of one another. But when WE let the external guide us, WE become a by product rather than creator. So that the external controls us, the external becomes more important and WE exist for it and lose ourselves. But if WE stood again (as in meditation, connecting with nature), the natural forces in us come out. And the more WE stand still the more WE are able to control the forces outside, instead of it controlling us. So that what WE create comes from the nature within, from what’s inside. The majority of US are very good at manipulating what’s outside. By suppressing or inner intuition, WE are inversing the natural order of things. And everything thing following this kind of behavior: religion, philosophy, technology, art, music, fashion. The mirror is reversed and WE follow mans logic rather than the nature within.

~ healing is revealing ~ So many of us are living with negative emotions floating in their head it has a great impact on the over all energy and consciousness of the planet. This energy feeds negative emotions bringing down everything. Everybody is under so much pressure to succeed, to fight, to get ahead, to provide for others, it suppresses who WE truly are. And what do people do to each other when they are unaware of themselves? They hurt each other only to hurt themselves. So the world

is full of hate, anger, and mistrust. And that leads to an enormous amount of guilt and stress and things are just not functioning a WEll. WE are closed off to the free flow of creative energy inside ourselves. The process of healing becomes very important; once WE realized WE are in need of healing it becomes a very serious undertaking. Some of us are not even aware that WE need healing and are conditioned to living in a toxic environment hidden from our own self knowledge and understanding. Holding onto a false image of the self can lead to disaster. In a state of disarray, it can be difficult to tell what is complimentary and what is not. In order to regain the knowledge of who WE are, WE need some serious healing. Healing is revealing. Healing reveals the truth within. When the truth is blocked, you do not have access to nature within you. When that is blocked, its usually due to a definition of yourself that blocks it. You forget who you are replacing Love with fear, mistrust, and anger. Healing allows you to let go of those negative definitions and open up to the possibility of the cosmos (limitless potential). Years of anger & pain caused us to put on an outer layer – disconnecting from our selves, nature or spirit. WE often serve the outer layer thinking it is our true selves. But you cannot consider yourself healthy unless you let go of the falsified outer layer and you open yourself and allow yourself to know your inner child. Reconnecting with nature is the first step towards our healing. Changing our culture, art, music, architecture and fashion to be more in alignment with nature is a natural expression of that connection.

~ the feeling me ~ The authentic me is the feeling me, the sensitive-me, the one that would share and help others. And the person WE see everyday trying to survive was the fake competitive me. An image that was forced upon me against my will. WE all suffer from conformity, mind control disease. It’s how society and families legislate over us to keep us in their mental prisons. It’s fine not to fit, it’s fine to seek the society of others who also don’t fit. It’s fine to travel away and leave it all behind you and embark on a great journey of self discovery and a Voyage to find the freedom of the real you.

~ free-will ~ Free-will does not mean do what ever the hell you damn WEll please. Free-will means, totally for free, like volunteering to build a house for a friend or loved one for free. Just like nature gives us freely, WE are also able to give freely. Free-will proposes a complete contrast to money because unlike money, free-will does not require permission from a third party. It is its own minister. Because free-will, unlike money, is self governing and self responsible. When you build a house by free-will, it raises the energy level of the house, radiating the life force of the community. And if all houses in the world WEre built by free-will, it would generate new and ever increasing possibilities for creativity.

In contrast, If a house was built by money then what determines it is just that. Money is what poWEred the dream to build the house and employ its workers. Money built the house – not hammer and nails. “Wow that house must have cost a lot of money!” And if all the houses in the world WEre built by money, then that is how the world is defined. So that every subsequent houses is built that way. Once a house is built it forever remains to represent how its built and there will never be enough houses for everyone if built by money. But, There is more than enough Free- will. Because free-will is like free-energy. Everyone has access to it. Since free-will is freely available there would be an explosion of abundance rather than scarcity because everyone has love and love is for everyone!

ow, lets re-imagine a totally different kind of house built by artists instead of money. If a house was built by artists, then what it comes to represent is art. And If all the houses in the world was built by art, it becomes an idea by which houses are built. One living example of how houses could be built by art -- allows for all subsequent houses to be inspired using the same idea. “Look over there that house was built by art and so can I or WE!” In this way, art becomes more of a “language” rather than a fixed currency. And if alloWEd, it would create absolute abundance.

Part VIII: Starting Over ~ When a farmer becomes an artist ~ When a farmer plants and grows a seed and nurtures it to fruition….And when the fruit of his free labor is shared amongst people and grows in their hearts ~ by the way it inspires them to make art, music, and dWEllings set upon those same fertile soil. Thus by planting a seed just as a painter, musician, or fashion designer paint on canvas, the farmer becomes an artist! The farmer who becomes an artist doesn’t actually plant a tree. He plants an idea. The tree is merely a reflection on the idea. The tree does not reflect the artist to be exact because he himself is only a tool reflecting an idea grander than himself or the tree ~ all the people living past, present, and future ‘form’ the energy that flows through the hands of the artist farmer that plants and grows a tree. Thus, the farmer who becomes an artist does not plant a tree alone, he plants the collective consciousness of the people of the world. Perhaps, he is planting the collective consciousness of the universe (life). If WE connected ourselves with a simple desire to feed the world and direct our love and attention towards the things that WE grow, it would naturally imbue this quality. Life starts with a seed. One seed generates an infinite number of new seeds. Each seed contains the genetic information and blueprints to create a brand new world. When WE grow food, fabric, materials for building, as a function of the infinite source of creativity, WE are in essence allowing the information contained in the seed to inhabit our world multiply

and become abundant.

~ absolute abundance ~ When everyone on the planet is contributing to the total output of creativity this is “absolute abundance”. Absolute abundance is not individual, it is a sum expression of our collective inheritance. When WE discover our inherent connections, it results in connecting with other people who also connect with theirs. The sum total of our shared inheritance is absolute abundance. Its OK to define abundance as having a big house, a nice car, or fancy clothes. But the absolute definition of abundance is about group expression and group abundance (the sum is much greater then it’s parts). ~Life as presented by nature is totally life affirming and abundant. Just look at the abundance of nature and it should tell us that life is not supposed to be about lack or suffering. It should be abundant! The trees, the fruits, the colors, everything in nature is blossoming, expanding, growing, there is a great outpouring of... Abundance!

Do you believe that WE can feed all the people of the world? That is not the real question. The question is, will WE be alloWEd to feed all the people in the world? If WE continue to conform to the idea that everything is finite and there is only enough for some and not for others it will never be enough. but, if you let go of the limiting thought factory, and think in terms of absolute abundance, WE can absolutely feed everyone abundantly. When everyone is contributing, big or small, to the total content and energy of the earth project then it will be able to feed everyone and then project that abundance beyond the earth and out into the stars and the entire universe! This is total and complete abundance. The more WE can project good energy as a total outpouring of our collective efforts on earth, the more abundance WE will have. It just requires us to let go of the limiting ways of thinking that society has taught us and create new.

~ new people ~ The new people are our hope. The ones who follow the divine spark within themselves -as opposed to reproducing cultural archetypes -and push society in a new direction. Although it may not appear WE are going anywhere in the beginning, when you first plant a seed, it may seem like a long way before it becomes a tree. Being able to see the future instead of what is now, planning and creating, WE can do everything WE are doing now, but in the greater context of a gardener. The new people are gardeners.

The next step in evolution is something that is not visible. Connecting to the higher consciousness, making yourself ready as a channel to receive, and act. Without it you can go into meditation --- but right now, meditation is in action. WE need a way for applied spirituality.

~ soil is life ~ The soil beneath our feet is the starting point for every deed, thought or action. What WE put in the soil by our thoughts and actions, grows and nourishes all aspects of life. If agriculture is regulated to the loWEst part of our imagination, what are WE actually harvesting? Food grown with lowly intentions grows lowly foods. But if WE grow food with good intentions, that food carries forward good intentions. Good food (includes houses and other commodities) is natures way to teach and guide. And it’s our way to listen and learn and respond. While bad food disconnects us from nature and makes us sick and diseased (cut off ). In order to get the best transmission from nature, WE need to have the best nourishment possible. The best foods cannot be imported from the pristine forest (unless that’s the trees special purpose). If it was grown far away in the Amazon hidden from sight, this cannot be considered a super-food because WE aren’t able to witness and partake in the miracle of the seed being born, experience it’s growth and nurtures it through from beginning to complete the cycle by exchanging energy with it. In order to connect with nature, WE need to be part of the creation process. In this sense, organic food is not the “goal” because

corporations (doing our “doing” and “thinking” for us) can do that too. Instead, Organic food must be a ‘by-product’ of our love and commitment to one another. If you put seeds in your mouth and then plant them where you stand bare feet, the plant will have the genetic information to grow exact antibodies that match your specific body and condition (Anastasia, Ringing Cedars Series). By touching the soil with your hands and feet you are expressing your love and affection for mother earth. And she responds affectionately, immediately gets excited, and project rays of healing.

xi: buildings by erecting buildings and houses based on love, it is giving to the future a premise of love. it becomes a testament reminding us of new ways and possibilities. new worlds, new consciousness. The houses and spaces WE live are important If WE live in unsustainable houses, WE can never provide enough homes for everyone. If WE want to change the basis of society, then WE need houses that accompany those ideals. Low cost, environmentally sound, aesthetically beautiful, comfortable, intelligent, anyone can agree they are beautiful. A house retains its own information. (see free will) ~ technology ~ WE have always had all the technology that WE need to live really beautifully on the planet WE are on, WE are just not using it that way. Its waiting for us to choose it. When WE envision what could be, when WE envision a more beautiful world, it includes all the technology that are just waiting on the wings like permaculture, like holistic medicine, clean energy technologies, and social technologies as WEll, like direct democracy. The solutions have been around for decades now. but WE don’t choose to elect them because WE have this idea that the world outside is separate from us and WE need to create technology to control it.

Free Energy means free for everyone. Not free for some and profit for others. If there is a profit being made, it is no lon-

ger free energy. That is why free energy is impossible unless WE change our society. It cannot be a scientific discovery in of itself, through that kind of mind. If WE want free energy. WE have to want it from a social & spiritual POV. Not from an economic one. There must be a spiritual and social renaissance before WE can discover free energy. And if there WEre such a thing as Angels of Free Energy, they would certainly keep it hidden from society and not allow Free Energy to happen until WE as a society have evolve and become free. Because it takes free society to create free energy. It would certainly not be made available until WE are all free. Because if free energy exist today, in our current society, it would be used against us not help the people. Free Energy cannot coexist in a selfish and greedy society.

x: It Takes a Village Green The whole fantasy park thing revolves around a school for green children. The curriculum is to participate in building fantasy park by learning all the skills in a non tradtional practical hands on kind of way. They will learn design, art, music, building, materials, permaculture, meditation, cooking, leadership skills, observance of nature, technology, communications. Either directly or through show and tell from other students or whomever interest them. At the end of the program they will be equipped with the necessary skills, passion, ideological framework, and contacts necessary to create green communities anywhere in the world. It’s based on the concept that it takes a village to educate a child. Everyone who becomes a part of fantasy park share their skills as part of the development of a new way of living is being created. WE instill self learning, choice, practical hands on skills, preparing children to become leaders in a green world. Training our kids to go out and make the world green place. skills: Leadership Communication / connections natural philosophy Language Craft & Design Music Green energy Yoga & Mediation or tai chi art etc. children are the future The school will be subsidized by branding our name and selling stuff from high fashion, art, music, writing, crafts, jeWElry, etc.

xi: made by people re: what if gov was actually made by the people? WEll, at least fashion can be and since fashion is one pillar of the program WE can hijack this one..

~ a billion (un)served ~ How does fashion reconcile with a billion hungry people? Our current fashion system is built around poWEr, WEalth, status and exclusion. Rather than building a consensus on love and equality, it is replaced with self-interest and greed. Where is the fashion created by brotherly love and compassion? By cooperating instead of competing, old patterns of thoughts and behaviors diminish allowing people to overcome separatedness and get together to work out our differences. The more committed WE are in coming together and improving relations, the more WE are empoWEred to redefine the world and reflect on those interests. So that ordinary hard working people can embody the values and principles they value most ~~ as a direct expression of their deliberate effort and hard work. Fashion becomes an arbitration, rather than an aberration, defining real hopes and dreams that serve people not exclude them. In this sense, wearing rags is optimistic (decon, grunge) in that it tells the story of an emerging community. The rags is not meant to be an aesthetic form in of itself but a statement of relationships. A point of departure, which ideally would evolve to reflect relationship complexity. A lack of quality relationships results in design that becomes weird and alienating. Inorder to reflect the real state of affairs, “Fashion must reach a point of exciting depression.”

~ a world made by people ~ When fashion reflects a principle idea that designer and user are one, working together as a community, fashion becomes a language made by people. Like a crowd erupting in a unanimous uproar or when two people meet and fall in love, they create a language of their own, unique to the situation. By replacing fashion madebypeople WE don’t know with fashion madebypeople WE do know (and like and they like us too;-), Fashion becomes a by-product of the process and not its end goal. By redefining fashion as process, WE change the world by changing the process. ~ (jokingly) Best design will be shown during new york fashion WEEk to what promises to be a big fashion heresy. Instead of one designer showing design(s) on the runway, a multi plethora of rainbow-colored people of all walks of life come together ‘as one’ :-) :-) :-). ~++++~ Not all rules need be formed lingually. however, there must be rules, in some broad sense, that communities agree upon ahead which gives it music and melody and herein a dream or language is made or exists to reflect upon it.

CONCLUSION: Who says glamour and the grassroots cant co-exist? -- In ethnic communities all around the world, and even in the most remote places where modern fashion has not replaced, glamour dates back thousands of years: silver and colored beaded jeWEls, an explosion of exciting patterns and styles, intricate embroidery taking not days but months to produce ! All the while connected with one another in nature, growing fabrics, and making their own unique off the grid templates which inspires the most celebrated designers today. WE don’t just want to win a battle on moral grounds and principles alone ~ using hemp or grunge as a moral banner. Nature is much more colorful and daring. So why can’t the grassroots be glamorous?! Glamorize the grassroots!

The End

FAIRY TALES DO EXIST! IF WE WANT IT

Epilogue Let us gather to dance and sing. Be among the rivers and trees. Where daft eyes not see. A secret place where girls and boys who like girls and boys ~ in who have aspects of both girl and boys in them meet and mingle. A ‘gathering place’ drawn upon tens of millions of years of experience. This is a place of universal celebration and joy. Where full imagination peak and fairy prince and princess speak. A place beyond the walls of the city, a wilderness where time stood still and the clocks lost electricity: A functioning of different dimensions converge, nature spirits, fairies, and fairy goddesses. Frogs and other creatures from the woods, too! They all come out like characters in a Disney movie. Be-cause FAIRY-TALES do exist! (If WE want them too.) When WE’re filled with song and joy. Even the trees, they aren’t moving at all ~ they are communicating too, their roots burrowing through the ground, dancing in unison to the rhythm of our feet. WE are pounding the music into their blessed ears; carrying the message of in our hearts. Our intentions are in the roots and underground and flows with the river downstream. It spreads throughout the womb of the earth~ through the network of communications below... Connecting to people around the

world. WE generate a sound so pure and dear that even people in paris, new york, and london will hear the beat if they walk barefoot too!!!! This is the place where people find a surprising number of rhythms; even inventing new ones. It doesn’t matter, good or bad. Songs that WEre old become new again. The dream of everyone around the world becoming one. A ceremony of clothes; WE got together in so many ways, and have found the same traveler’s heart and song. Seeing them again and again. It’s time to get together in a totally new way, an infinite variety is available to us! At first, WE come alone. But when WE open our eyes WE see everyone beside us in the pouring rain. WE are all collected by the sWEat that lodges from our bodies and the tears that roll to the ground, stammering beneath our feet. Even when the beat has gone (silence), WE find continuity, and an awkward moment is gone. The music never dies...AT first disjointed, then WE became one.

PoWEr to the people, WE’ve got a drum!

*natural derived sound may at-first seem awkward because WE arent accustomed to them. They are disguised as totally new until WE are used to them once again.

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