User:Karen Moller

Karen Moller grew up in a small town in the mountains of Western Canada. After graduating from art school in Calgary she hitchhiked to San Francisco with a copy of Jack Kerouac's, On the Road under her arm. In 1959, that city was in the first wave of beatnik activities with Ferlinghetti holding court in his book store, City Lights. From San Francisco, she moved on to New York and Paris, where she met avant-garde artists like Yves Klein and John Cage. In London, she partied with the Beatles, Pink Floyd and the odd balls that shaped swinging London. She started her own hippie boutique on a shoestring (Twiggy modeled her clothes) and established the first textile design studio in London, which became highly successful within the design world. Later in 1985, she started the consulting and styling office, Trend Union, and became trend forecaster to the world's top designers.It was named by Time Magazine as "One of the world's foremost Fashion Futurists".

Her memoir,Technicolor Dreamin', covers the exciting developments in fashion, art, poetry, lifestyle and political attitudes of the 1960's as well as in depth information about fashion influences, textile design, fashion forecasting, and the people in those industries. Artist in training, she lived out the hottest moments in the 1960s, among them, the barricades in Paris in May 1968. Her brother, Paul Moller, invented the flying Skycar which will shortly pass the airworthy tests to become a normal form of computer guided personal transport. This memoir has now been published by Bahia in Spain and will be available From March 2014. Her new novel Forbidden Games is a passionate love story between a lonely girl, Julie and her half-brother, Tor, set first in the wilds of the Canadian mountains, then in the European world of fashion and the arts. Her father brings home his son by a former and now deceased lover, and an erotic relationship develops between the two young people, but is kept at arm’s length by the boy’s guilt-laden, Catholic upbringing. Their exhibitionistic and voyeuristic games are broken off when they go to university. Tor marries a sophisticated demi-mondaine ten years older than him, and struggles to continue his poetry studies while supporting his clever but frivolous wife who manipulates him though his masochistic desires. Julie wins a scholarship in Paris and goes to work for one of France’s famous couture houses, quickly becoming a rising star. Tor joins her in the Paris rooming house, the rundown Beat Hotel, inhabited by beatniks, Burroughs and Gregory Corso and the small time artist-criminals who inhabit that marginal world. The ambiguous and tortured nature of their passionate love-affair soon becomes overwhelming. Forbidden Games will also be available in March 2014