Blog Post #60 - Monday Morning Moment

I have just awoken from a dream in which I was diving off a cliff!
So I was reminded of what Kawakubo said about “playing it safe” which I found when I was bopping around London’s V&A museum.

I was hoping to fossick in their archives for something but that box was unavailable, so I rocked into a couple of exhibitions.

The first was of costumes from the early 1700s to present day; paltry compared with the Costume Museum in Bath but still, it drew me to what Kawakubo said of her avant-garde work.

Then I went into a wonderful exhibition called, “Divas.”
They were all there.
Melba, Bernhardt, Babs and Madonna. My favs were Callas’ Vissi D’Arte to die for and Whitney’s “And I………” - yes, that moment which blew the world away.
“Playing it safe” was nowhere near anyone in that canon of Divas.
Mostly, we do what we know. Today will be more of the same I suspect. Tomorrow too.
But every single great creator dived into the unkown as a matter of course and were declared insane for it.
Yes, great game changers were pretty much all nutters!
All hail the derring-do of the brave!

​Love to all and have a fabulous week.
Kxx
Image by José Jiménez Alonso

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