Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

DANIEL WAKAHISA REPORTS FROM JAIL

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Soon or later I knew I was going to get caught tagging WODE all over the place...

Actually, nothing this exciting has yet happened. I was invited to a women's penitentiary here in Brazil as part of a government project aiming to provide prisoners with honest carrier opportunities through professional training. Not that I consider fashion a particularly honest field of work, but I guess at least it's legal.

So without hesitation I agreed to spend my last days here in Brazil locked up with a few thousand ladies—sharing sewing techniques I learned in Italy and at London College of Fashion. I wish they would allow me to take photos, but unfortunately it's strictly forbidden. Most of these ladies were condemned for drug related crimes, although there are a few murderesses in class. If you were to meet them, you wouldn't believe they'd be capable of the felonies they openly admit to have committed—they are so sweet. In fact this has been the most pleasant, disciplined, and well mannered group of students that I have ever come across.

Behind bars I have found the shadiest view on fashion—but also the brightest. A privilege I felt obliged to report concluding—for the time being—my exploits in Brazil.

Later,

Daniel

Summer Study in Rome Theatre, Film and Dance deadline extended for

Dear Shaded Viewers,

My host for the You Wear it Well screening at Cornell Universtiy was Byron Suber who has also created a dance study program in Rome that was very successful last summer. The deadline has just been extended. If you are interested in enrolling for next summer, please contact Byron directly pbs6@cornell.edu for more information.

http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ss/courses/off/dance.php

Back in NYC in the 80's Byron used to come to my shows and I would enjoy his performances. He has quite an impressive CV that spans about 10 pages.

Later,

Diane