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as of May 19, 2012
Michael is a visual culture hound and compulsively searches the landscapes of art, fashion, advertising and marketing for clues to our individual and collective sense of self. She received a degree in Visual Studies from California College of the Arts and has spent the last ten years doing some combination of curating, writing about art and fashion, and teaching high school students to learn to read the visual language around them; thus blowing many young minds in the process. As a child she had a seemingly boundless curiosity about all things odd, wondrous and multi-layered, and her heroes included Anne Shirley, Ramona Quimby, Annie Lennox circa the Eurythmics (as a result more than one Barbie Doll ended up with short-cropped orange hair and a Dream House closet full of Ken's clothes), and scientists who researched the possibility of multiple dimensions.
Today she can't help but rail against all things fashionably uninspired and much of her wardrobe exists as a direct result of imagining what it might be like to live an unfettered life of bizarrely-earned wealth, eccentricity, and a Victorian sense of unwise adventure. While recognizing that she will never live aboard a fantastic airship with her pet peacock, she can't help but wonder, "what would I wear if I could?" Her writing reflects her constant search for airship fashion and for people who truly embrace fashion as a means of communication and expression.
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