{"id":10179,"date":"2015-04-26T13:16:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/?p=10179"},"modified":"2016-09-09T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:16:30","slug":"viviennes-diary-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/2015\/04\/26\/viviennes-diary-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivienne’s Diary – March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now that we understand that Monopoly Capitalism is the cause and effect of our environmental and financial problems, I decided to address the fact that many people don’t know what capitalism is – including people of the left that I call Left-over <\/em>Marxists. <\/i>I have been putting together a piece on this.\u00a0link<\/span><\/a><\/span>. I read the Communist Manifesto<\/em> and the chapters on Marx in Freedom and Organization<\/em> by Bertrand Russell.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tue 3\u00a0Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>I have arranged to visit Julian the first Tuesday of every month. I would like to see him more often but I know he\u2019s busy. Ben takes him lovely Japanese food \u2013 vegetarian, organic \u2013 a couple of times a week made by Tomoka. I know it\u2019s good because he drops a little of the same to me for my lunch at work.<\/p>\n

Julian thinks it\u2019s good that I and Climate Revolution are supporting the Green Party. He says the public debate is far more important than the election. It immediately clicked, yes, what about the Social Media? Opposition to being governed by these main parties is growing like a tidal wave, so its good, Julian says, if the Green Party, being part of that opposition \u00a0can take the debate into Parliament. Julian is excited about all those SNPs. I say, if only they can tip the balance away from disaster.<\/p>\n

So what can people in England do? Vote Green and also add your power to the power of the Social Media which has access to true facts, form true opinions and smother the lies. Go on demonstrations. Start by stopping fracking. Inform yourself, talk to people.<\/p>\n

We, especially Cynthia, have been working with NGO partners to organize our demonstration “Time to Act”<\/em>.\u00a0We designed the poster for the London March and a T-shirt\u00a0for the Gold Label in Paris. At the same time as the march our models are walking the catwalk and I will be sending a video message from Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jerry Hall looking her most beautifull on our square T-shirts<\/p><\/div>\n

Wed 4\u00a0Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>On Eurostar (the Tories have just sold it off in one of their corrupt bargain sales to the monopolies) to Paris to prepare our Gold Label show.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Alexander Fury<\/span>\u00a0from the Independent asked Andreas and me how we worked together. I include the answers here<\/span><\/a> as he only used some snips.\u00a0The Independent interview<\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/i>This will give you some idea of what Andreas and I have been doing over the last weeks – how we build the collection.<\/p>\n

In the Paris showroom we meet Sabina who is working on the casting. She is a terrific stylist (never satisfied until she\u2019s tried everything); Helping with the show, we\u2019ll be able to leave a lot to her. The clothes are nearly all arrived which will make a total difference. When the clothes arrive late we\u2019re working all night before the show. That won\u2019t happen this time.<\/p>\n

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Sat 7\u00a0Mar: <\/strong>Catwalk music: Die Hartjungs<\/span>\u00a0live. This collection is something else! Unisex: The same size suit (Savile Row tailoring \u2013 from Huddersfield) fits a woman \u2013 bolero with shoulder pads buttoned inside \u2013, fits a man (model size) \u2013 sleeves and pants too short. (Cool!); the exact same dress fits woman\/man. They look like queens\/kings. I liked the make-up idea: frowns. Paz and Marcus were Bride and Groom.<\/p>\n

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Leebo, Vivienne Swiss model 16 named after me, Andreas<\/p><\/div>\n

Gwendoline Christie did our show and after we went straight on and did our shoot with her and Leebo and with Juergen Teller for our advertising campaign. Done! Everybody satisfied.<\/p>\n

At dinner I wanted to talk to my friends especially Pas and Marcus but they were so polite and considerate \u2013 they left me in passionate conversation with Gwendoline. We were talking about Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

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Gaelle Malandrone<\/p><\/div>\n

Mon 9\u00a0Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>My young French friend Gaelle who used to be our fitting model is now an actress and I met her and her actress friend, Marie to discuss an idea I have \u2013 a 2 woman show \u2013 to be called \u201cCulture for Beginners\u201d<\/em>. When they start to get it together I will tell you how it is supposed to work. I mention it now just because I love Gaelle, and Marie whom I just met is a powerful, intelligent force.<\/p>\n

Tue 10\u00a0Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>I had the pleasure of meeting one or two more friends and beside that we began an important discussion regarding Q v Q<\/span><\/a><\/span> with our people working in Asia. We need to continue before one director goes back to Japan. This will be on Friday in England. Therefore we will have to cut short the little break we had planned, whilst in France.<\/p>\n

Gare de Lyon. It\u2019s so romantic for me, travelling down through France. My English education is so connected with its history and culture. We are going to Perpignan close to the border with Spain, in Carcassonne at the foothills of the Pyrenees. As we near our destination the train stops more often. The names. From Nimes we come to Montpelier. We are by the sea with etanges <\/i>and flamingos along the coast. Narbonne. Tizer meets us in a hire car. We are staying in her mother\u2019s little house in Padern. \u2013 Out of the way. No shops \u2013 when a van of produce arrives each week a loudspeaker from the Marie <\/i>announce the opportunity to stock up.<\/p>\n

We just loved it. The house so rudimentary, collecting kindling and wood from the side of the little road which wound up the steep hillside to the\u00a0Ch\u00e2teau of Padern. Tizer cooked and put us a hot-water-bottle in bed.<\/p>\n

Wed 11\u00a0Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>The weather was glorious blue. We only had one full day and we went to Peyreperteuse. This is the most dramatic of the castles built on and embedded within the outcrops of limestone which rise up crowning the hills. The castles run along the French-Spanish border.<\/p>\n

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From the approach road it is difficult to see where the rock stops and the castle starts<\/p><\/div>\n

I have never seen this kind of limestone terrain before. They are in the foothills of the snow covered mountains in the distance \u2013 covered in evergreen shrubby trees \u2013 which could be one of so many different kinds of oak. Rivers crashing and winding, deep pools where you can dive and swim. These are the cascades\u00a0 where in summer many gather, staying on the rocks all day \u2013 to picnic and talk. Tizer has been coming here with her family every summer. Hippies live here. Organic markets with fantastic wine. The crops you see are vines and almond trees in blossom amongst the landscape.<\/p>\n

Anne, Tizer\u2019s neighbour tells us the Romans were here – ancient tribes always stay near water. They mined, tin \u2013 I can\u2019t remember what else. How did hunter-gatherers before that survive? I\u2019ve never thought of this before. They must have known so much that we don\u2019t know. It was the novelty to me of this old landscape that made me think of it. How did they survive\u00a0anywhere<\/span>? Here there are wild boars and in a section of a stream we saw dozens of big frogs just floating or mating.<\/p>\n

Thur 12\u00a0Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>On our way to the airport we passed a sign leading to a Neanderthal cave. We couldn’t go. No time. The Neanderthals were here for 200,000 years before homo sapiens came to Europe 45,000 years ago and within 5,000 years of that event they were gone. The theory is that we were cleverer at getting our food. Recently dogs\u2019 bones dating from 30,000 years ago were found. They were like wolves but with shorter snouts suggesting that our ancestors tamed and bred dogs from wolves – \u00a0If we had hunted with dogs (hairy mammoths!) that would have been lethal.<\/p>\n

An interesting article in National Geographic (Jan. 2015) found that art forms of primitive people lasted in one place for a time then stopped and were never repeated.<\/p>\n

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Wed 18\u00a0Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>Amnesty came to interview me for a film about activists. I remembered Rachel Corrie, a young woman 23 who travelled to Palestine to join a group trying to stop Israeli seizure of Arab land. She wrote a diary for this experience and this was turned into a play which I saw. She began, \u201cMy name is Rachel Corre\u201d. She was in Palestine only 2 or 3 weeks. She stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer which kept coming and killed her.\u00a0Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Fri 20\u00a0Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>Andreas is in Italy and so I gave his ticket to my son Joe. The Barbican, pianist\u00a0 Evegny Kissin: he first played a Beethoven sonata. Dramatic and so fast you could only just keep up with him. Beethoven is self-consciously clever, he sounds like he\u2019s showing off and he seems to hammer the point by repeating himself. It conjured up a picture of charming Victorian ladies in crinolines self-consciously appreciating the countryside. Next Prokofiev. This is great. I wished I could hear it again. Either I didn\u2019t concentrate enough or I did not let myself go enough. I don\u2019t know. Except I did know it had the integrity of great art. After the interval came Chopin and this carried me away. It was like Kissin owned the music and gave it to you, communicated it to you. I was now completely opened up. Next Liszt, and ravished with pleasure we travelled on with Kissin into eternity.<\/p>\n

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Evegny Kissin<\/p><\/div>\n

Saturday 21\u00a0Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>Attended the Green Party meeting and I’m going to tell you all about my experience working with them in my April Diary.<\/p>\n

Wed 25\u00a0Mar:<\/strong> \u00a0Mark, the artist cab-driver called for me and he interviewed me in his cab – video<\/span><\/a><\/span>. He\u2019s really engaged with what is happening in the world and is desperate like me to expose the criminal political- financial structure that kills us. When we said goodbye \u2013 Gosh!- he gave me the sweetest smile.<\/p>\n

Thu 26\u00a0<\/span>Mar:\u00a0<\/strong>An evening event in St Margaret Pattens church in Eastcheap next to the Monument. Our host is Jenny Tiramani. She together with my friend Santina Levey are dedicated to their work. They are costume historians, researchers, curators and they develop, promote and publish the work of Janet Arnold. Janet Arnold, to whom I am grateful as I discovered historical cuts from the diagrams in her books. Santina is a leading expert on lace and Jenny was costume designer at The Globe<\/em>. They founded their own school, The School of Historical Dress<\/em>. This occasion was a book launch produced by the school. Footwear<\/i> by Alan and Vanessa Hopkins.. I talked to Vanessa and Alan who had done the photographs and the lay-out. The lay-out is different than any books published today. Alan said, \u201cWhen you employ a designer you pay for white spaces.\u201d There are none. But the real difference is the love he put into it. <\/i>The school hopes to find a house \u2013 open to the public for their archive of historical clothes. And Andreas and I say to anyone interested in fashion to support the school; it is so important and depends on public subscription.<\/p>\n

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Drinking wine, listening to speeches from people with such knowledge and passion in this treasure of Wren\u2019s church architecture is typical of Jenny. Everything she touches is exquisite and the best. At the end she asked me if I had anything to say. \u2013 I just thanked her. Andreas jumped in to say this book is the best shoe book ever.
\nJenny didn’t want to sell the book on Amazon so the Amazon site says the book isn’t available but it’s available here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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