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During the sixties, Karen Moller was a highly successful designer, first in my her boutique—Twiggy modeled her clothes—and sales of her hip outfits to Carnaby Street and Kings Road and later in Paris and across America when boutiques within department stores became fashionable. The lack of young hippie print designs on the market led to designing her own prints and in 1969, she established the first textile design studio in London. That was the beginning of world-wide success, and to winning awards and international recognition. She sold designs to all the noted fashion icons, Yves Saint Laurent, Ungaro, Perry Ellis, just to name a few. In 1985 in Paris, she started Trend Union with seven other specialists in their field, a design consulting and forecasting firm that broke the fashion barriers. TIME magazine named Trend Union as “One of the world's most influential fashion futurists.” In her third year of art school in Canada, inspired by Kerouac’s On the Road, She took off hitchhiking to San Francisco where she met Ferlinghetti, and many beatnik poets. In Paris In the 60’s, as an artist in training, she participated in Poetry and Art Events, becoming friendly with artists and musicians, John Cage, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, Beuys’ and the Fluxus artists and Visual Poets. In London she partied with the Pop world of the Pink Floyd, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. The newspaper, IT, (International Times) was published in the premises of Indica bookstore, (Miles, Asher- brother of Paul McCartney’s girlfriend and Dunbar art critic). Their Indica Gallery showed Yoko Ono’s work and that was where Yoko met John Lennon. With her Maoist friend Adreinne she sold designs to Paris boutiques, and lived out the precarious moments on the 1968 Paris barricades. Her first memoir Technicolor Dreamin’, was published ten years ago in Canada and later in America as In Her Own Fashion and has be-come a reference source for people interested in Sixties art and fashion, many of its passages and anecdotes are quoted in various publications, and it is cited in the recent film of the Beat Hotel in Paris. It has now been published in Spain by Bahia publishers. The memoir covers in depth information about the 1960’s Beats, hippies, art and music, textile design and fashion forecasting as well as her participation in the ecological, sexual and feminist revolutions that changed not only the way we dress but the way we think. It is a first-person gallop through San Francisco, New York, Paris and London, with plenty of insider hanging-out and anecdotes with artists and fash-ion people she met along the way. All the other books on the sixties are about particular subjects, e.g. music, art, fashion, politics etc. while this memoir is unique because of Karen's closeness to the events as witness and participant in the political protests and the arts, pop music and ex-perimental poetry, fashion and feminism and the liberalization of society. It was all closely linked and the leading lights bouncing off each increased the 1960's creativity. The sixties are today what the 1920’s—30’s were to the previous generation.