Thursday, October 1, 2009

Every year, I send Mike a short list of trend predictions, based on a mix of bibliomancy (with city subbed for bible) and wishful thinking. Mike sends it to Cary. Cary writes a beautiful e-mail related to her feelings about things on the list.

2009-10
Reggae covers
Knickers
teepees
rain ponchos
ribbons
caves
cut up bandanas
root beer floats
paper mache
flannel shirt dresses
sweater vests
kilt pins (i've been wrong about this many other years)
men wearing dainty silk scarves tied to side


2008
Old-fashioneds [cocktail]
Thin Man movies
Fencing
Little Debbie swiss rolls
Seals [see Oct 06, animal icons]
Mussel shells strung into necklaces and garlands
Hors d’oevres—with extreme layers
Pom-poms
Pony beers [mini-beers]
Foxes [animal icons]
Dickies? [mock-turtleneck thing you put under sweater]
Greek plays
Freud/Karen Horney—book groups, etc
Chuckles candy
Planetariums

13 comments:

ro said...

you didn't happen to go to the trend union presentation on wednesday in the tishman auditorium did you.............?

inkysocks said...

i didn't. what was it?

ro said...

Bi-annual presentation of trends by Li Edelkoort for the design community. Wednesday was for New School students and was presented by Emmanuelle Linard from their NY office. She was talking about Autumn / Winter 2010 / 11. Personally I think Li Edelkoort is a genius and I love her presentations as they encompass all aspects of culture, politics etc. She has a wonderful presence and I find her fascinating and smart! Emmanuelle Linard....not so much but the presentation was good anyway!! Next presentation is Spring / Summer 2011 by Li Edelkoort on December 1st.

inkysocks said...

how does my trend list match up?

ro said...

ah, not too well I'm afraid.......
let's see who gets it right!

inkysocks said...

but you have faith in me, right? can we go on dec 1?

ro said...

I would love to! can you wrangle a free ticket? (I get one from my secret source....!)

inkysocks said...

oh no--i just realized that's the last night of our reading series! i really want to go to this. grrrr.

ro said...

it will be late morning.....

inkysocks said...

yay! yes, let's go. i'll get a ticket somehow.

ro said...

cool!

Erk said...

Thin Man movies was definitely a trend in our 2008 household. xo

inkysocks said...

thank you for some confirmation! phew.