I’m off to the Yukon in a few short days to hole myself up in a cabin and knit the bulk of the next larry. collection, and attempting to stuff my brain with as much as I can before I surrender to the wilderness about Whitehorse.  Japan Fashion Week just went down and, fantastically far out hair-do’s aside, there were lots of interesting design elements that registered on my radar:

I love this boy-scout scarf by Trove.

Intensely hot braided/knit scarf by In-Process by Hall/Ohara.  It looks to be of varying widths, and for a split second could almost be mistaken for a very long hybrid of hair/yarn wrapped around her body.

Kamishima Chinami neck adornments.  And see what I mean about the hair?  I think I had at least one Barbie that ended up similarly coiffed after a botched haircut resulting from my imaginative experiments as a pre-teen hair stylist.

Somarta.  Thrills with frills.

Gut’s Dynamite Cabarets.  The hardware is a little country-western, which I don’t like all too much aesthetically but still have some latent appreciation for.  And the fringe, oohhhh the fringe (positive inflection on the ‘oohhhh’).  I know it’s like 3 seasons old but who the f cares.

Entoptic.  I feel like I’ve done a gazillion sketches and visualizations of this type of loose weave, and began to experiment with this in the ‘Art of Giving‘ pieces I made for the Grace-Gallery charity show using re-purposed textiles from Our Social Fabric back in December 2009, but this is a brilliant execution of the type of look I am going for in my next endeavours with weaving.