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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Milliner/apparel`costume designer/teacher |
| Location | N.Providence, RI, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | I'm not about to give away my age, but let's just say that I have been a designer since the age of 10. I would not have the skills I possess today were it not for my mothers' historically important DNA!! After researching costume design of the Italian Renaissance for an opera in the summer of 2007 about Michelangelo, I also learned of my grandfathers' connection to the Medicis of Renaissance Italy. The Orsini-Medici Dynasty lasted some 400 years, producing 3 Popes with Orsini blood in their veins! The family tree also reveals a connection to Mary Queen of Scots and James I of Scotland!! The two merged families' great fortune was responsible for the patronization of Michelangelo, DaVinci, Raphael, Titian, Dante, Brunelleschi, and so many more. There is still a medieval castle (Odescalchi) on Lake Bracciano, in Italy, that up until the 1700's, was owned by the Orsini's. It is the very same castle that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were married in! My education at RISD gave me basic design, art history, and apparel design technical training. I am an award winning designer, and was in 2002, recognized by the RI State Council on the Arts and Humanities. |
| Interests | All subjects that effect and contribute inspiration to my art form. I love art, history, antiques, the textile arts, the U.K., Italy, particularly the Renaissance period, theater, classical, Celtic, Loreena McKinnett, and world music. Some of my favorite inspirations for design come from the works of Erte', J.W. Waterhouse, William Morris, and all eras of fashion history. |
| Favorite Movies | A Room With A View, Wings of the Dove, The Secret of Innishman, The Mistress of Spices, Pay It Forward, Remains of the Day, Memoirs of a Geisha, Labyrinth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Choclat, Angela's Ashes, Under the Tuscan Sun, Cinema Paradiso, The Queen, The Bridges of Madison County, Life is Beautiful, Nell, Catch Me If You Can, Castaway, The Return of Martin Guerre(Gerard Depardieu), Annie Hall, The Others(Deborah Kerr), The Heiress (Olivia D'Haviland ), Jane Erye (Zella Clarke), and so many more I can't remember. |
| Favorite Music | Loreena McKinnett, Ottmar Liebert, Hevia, Sting, Cheryl Crowe, Corinne Bailey Rae, KT Tunstall, Dylan, Tom Petty, Joni Mitchell, McCartney/Beatles, Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambaso/Sweet Honey in the Rock, YoYo Ma, Jean Pierre Rampal, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Prokoviev, Mendelsohn, Debussy, Camille SaintSans, Dvorzak, Greig, Eric Satie, Gershwin(s). |
| Favorite Books | Most recently: The Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline Murphy, Magnifico by Miles Unger, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (and everything by him!!), Anam Cara, Eternal Echoes, and Beauty all by John O'Donohue, Angelas' Ashes and 'Tis by Frank McCourt, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, The Burning Season by Chico Mendes, Life and Death in Shanghai by Nyen Cheng, Memoirs of a Geisha, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarrisa Pinkola Estes, The biography of Georgia O'Keefe, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Leyden, The Sweet Potato Queens, The Agony and the Ecstacy. |
Compose the lyrics to a new national anthem that features an animal sound at least once:
Could it be possible that The Wizard of Oz was really about two girls fighting over a pair of shoes?