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I have been doing research on a scarf I want to design and it will be a deco reference or early 20th Century setting, an homage to Golden Age of illustrators though it's quite ambitious and it will be laborious. As I often do I started rummaging through Pinterest and I found this wonderful painting by Joseph Leyendecker which I want to use as a core reference and it's so emotive that the first think I thought was "where as all that glamour gone?" . I really don't like the way celebrities and the ultra rich get around these days though to be fair, if I had that much money maybe I would want to look the same, I will most likely never find out. But we are certainly along way from the period depicted here. If you don't know who Leyendecker is, read the blurb below I generated with my chat. 

It has been a labour of love. I am exhausted. I was up till midnight last night and still working on them into the afternoon today. Let us pray they come out well. Each one is unique, each one has its own personality and reason for being. They include travels to Currango, a conversation at Camp Cove with my furniture friend on minimalism, mine and my friends travels to great ski resorts, the winner of our scarf design competition, a new work by Clementine Chambon, my homage to Hachmang’s cafe speedster, a return to old work with the sirens, a chance afternoon light and I stopped for a photograph in Thredbo with homage to Hiroshige, and, finally, some Sumos in Shiga Kogen.