Design and Architecture
Inside the Fashion Asylum; Is the Sun Shining on Solar?
Simon Doonan talks about the connection between madness and fashion. Plus, a look at the future of solar in California; and bantering appliances in Everything Talks.
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenSimon Doonan talks about the connection between madness and fashion. Plus, a look at the future of solar in California; and bantering appliances in Everything Talks.
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3 storiesSolar Decathlon
In the past two weeks 60,000 people went to the Orange County Great Park in Irvine to check out the “Solar Decathlon.” That’s the exhibition of net zero energy houses, designed and built by students for a biannual competition created by the DOE, with the goal of educating people about solar power.
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This is the month for fashion weeks – in New York, now Paris and – somewhat under the radar -- LA. So what better time to consider the world of style with Simon Doonan -- “creative ambassador” for Barneys New York and author of many autobiographical books, starting with “Confessions of a Window Dresser.”
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Everything Talks is a new DnA series where comedy writer Tom Saunders reveals to us what our objects really think. Today we are in the kitchen and sitting on the counter are two appliances. One is the latest coveted item of the juicing community.
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