User:Karen J Moller/sandbox

Karen Moller became famous as one of Swinging London’s key fashion designers. In the seventies she established a world-wide reputation for her textile designs. Karen was a witness and participant in the 1960s political, ecological protests, and feminist revolutions that liberalised society and changed not only the way we dress but the way we think. 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 beatnik poets. From there to New York and Paris, as an artist in training, she attended art classes, hung out at the Beat Hotel and participated in Poetry and Art Events, becoming friendly with artists Alain Arias-Misson, Robin Page, Robert Filliou, Max Neuhaus, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams and many others. In London she became a highly successful designer, first in her own boutique – Twiggy modeled her clothes – with sales to Carnaby Street and Kings Road, Paris’ boutiques and across America. She partied with the Pop world of Pink Floyd, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and frequented Indica Bookstore. With her Maoist friend Adrienne, she helped man the 1968 Paris barricades. In 1969, she established the first textile design studio in London. In 1976 after winning awards and gaining international recognition, she moved back to Paris. In 1985, with Li Edelkoort she created Trend Union, a design consulting and forecasting firm that became world famous for predicting the trends for famous fashion houses. TIME magazine named Trend Union as ‘One of the world's most influential fashion futurists’. www.karenmoller.com Throughout her career changes she collected thousands of vintage textile swatches which she now sells to top designers worldwide. The collection ranges from the 1800’s to the 1970’s and includes prints, velvets, jacquards and woven fabrics for women, men’s and children’s wear as well as a large selection of furnishing fabrics and household textiles.www.vintagetextileskarenmoller.com

Her memoir Technicolor Dreamin’ in her own fashion has been published in Canada, US, Spain and England. On on 17th May 2019 she gave a reading of her re-edited edition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3XF She is the sister of Paul Moller who invented the Skycar a vertical takeoff flying car which as yet has not gone into production although the freedom motors engine for the Skycap will shortly begin production.