Carl Klaus

Foreword
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

— Epictetus

see a woman only in her underwear is infinitely more sensual and sexual than seeing a woman entirely naked.

A designer’s work should be orientated towards this fulfilment.

plain and satin weave, jersey, lawn, muslin, percale, and voile.

The beginning of the Gothic age cannot be dated precisely; it lies sometime in the mid-twelfth century and slowly replaced the Romanesque age.

painter, master builder and writer Giorgio Vasari used the term “gothic” (which means “barbaric”) to describe the new way of building that came to Italy over the Alps.

The imagined body is more meaningful than any real body.