“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Particularly when one can’t see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don’t feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.”
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Timothy K Opus II Collection Fall 2012
“Living and working within a collective of underground New York City artists, musicians and punk intellectuals, Timothy found a creative drive spurred by his peers and the predecessors to this culture: revolutionary bands, poets, artists, directors and cultural icons that went against the grain in their respective fields to creative a paradigm shift. Driven by this desire to provide a continuous change of perceptions and influence the views of fashion, art and culture ,Timothy began to take in inspiration for his forthcoming collection. A fateful trip to the Guggenheim museum would prove to be the cornerstone of this endeavor, which would continue to evolve over the following year. Timothy visited the 2010 exhibition, “Broken Forms: European Modernism from the Guggenheim Collection”, where he came upon a cubist piece depicting a woman in a dress. He saw a dress depicted in a way he had never seen before, its broken planes, unconventional interaction with the organic form of the body and the use of color instantly sealed the theme for the new collection: a cubist-inspired collection like never before would be the goal and revolutionary fashion based on architecture, invention of new construction techniques and utilization of uncommon materials would be the vehicle. The timothy k team aimed to produce pieces that did not mimic the color blocked “cubist” inspired fashion of old but rather give nod to the grandfathers of architectural fashion design, Charles James and Balenciaga, using the body as a foundation on which to create innovative silhouettes and forms, pushing the envelope of what is considered possible in both design and construction.”
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