I was lucky enough to work for Echo for 10 years. Dot was a mentor to me and embodied what it is and was to be a kind, fair, forward thinking leader. I will always treasure my time there and my collection of wonderful Echo Scarfs!
I think the choice of "scarfs" rather than "scarves" was smart because both the spelling and the pronunciation shade toward the individual item rather than the collective. One might shop for scarves, but one acquires a particular scarf. Each scarf we wear is a statement, and from what you've shown us, each Echo scarf is a work of high artisanship.
Then there's J.R.R. Tolkien's choice of "dwarves" over "dwarfs" in the Rings trilogy, the same considerations pointing to the collective race of beings rather than the anatomical anomaly.
You had me pondering a bunch of -F words early this morning.
Very cool. Pioneering woman. That took me to the Dave Dye site, which is amazing, which took me down the Marissa Berenson rabbit hole. Another fascinating woman, who, as this Guardian article puts it, was the Zelig of the zeitgeist.
Actually, rather than being like Zelig, who was chameleon-like to the extreme, Marissa was extremely cultured, extremely talented, and extremely connected. Her family is a who’s who of famous people and “she was taught to dance by Gene Kelly. Greta Garbo came to her parents’ parties; Salvador Dalí – a friend of her grandmother, the designer Elsa Schiaparelli – wanted to paint her. The legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland pushed her to become a model — Yves Saint Laurent would describe her as ‘the face of the 70s’ — and she was photographed by giants such as David Bailey, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. Andy Warhol photographed her wedding.”
But that’s just a fraction of this fascinating woman who went to India and learned TM with the Beatles and speaks five languages. She lives today in Marrakech, still glamorous and independent.
I was lucky enough to work for Echo for 10 years. Dot was a mentor to me and embodied what it is and was to be a kind, fair, forward thinking leader. I will always treasure my time there and my collection of wonderful Echo Scarfs!
Lucky indeed! Thanks for sharing your story here.
I think the choice of "scarfs" rather than "scarves" was smart because both the spelling and the pronunciation shade toward the individual item rather than the collective. One might shop for scarves, but one acquires a particular scarf. Each scarf we wear is a statement, and from what you've shown us, each Echo scarf is a work of high artisanship.
Then there's J.R.R. Tolkien's choice of "dwarves" over "dwarfs" in the Rings trilogy, the same considerations pointing to the collective race of beings rather than the anatomical anomaly.
You had me pondering a bunch of -F words early this morning.
Very cool. Pioneering woman. That took me to the Dave Dye site, which is amazing, which took me down the Marissa Berenson rabbit hole. Another fascinating woman, who, as this Guardian article puts it, was the Zelig of the zeitgeist.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/30/marisa-berenson-warhol-dali-vogue-cabaret
Actually, rather than being like Zelig, who was chameleon-like to the extreme, Marissa was extremely cultured, extremely talented, and extremely connected. Her family is a who’s who of famous people and “she was taught to dance by Gene Kelly. Greta Garbo came to her parents’ parties; Salvador Dalí – a friend of her grandmother, the designer Elsa Schiaparelli – wanted to paint her. The legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland pushed her to become a model — Yves Saint Laurent would describe her as ‘the face of the 70s’ — and she was photographed by giants such as David Bailey, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. Andy Warhol photographed her wedding.”
But that’s just a fraction of this fascinating woman who went to India and learned TM with the Beatles and speaks five languages. She lives today in Marrakech, still glamorous and independent.