Margaret Atwood has just released I’m Starved for You, a new ebook described as “a tale of love and lust in an Orwellian near future… an entertaining yet harrowing story that lays bare the very real dangers of trading liberty for safety.”

Lavin speaker Margaret Atwood’s sci-fi essay collection In Other Worlds is inspiring some otherworldly fashion from Adrian Wu.

vintageanchor:

“Tonight is the Book Lover’s Ball, an annual fundraiser that brings out the tuxedos and gowns in support of the Toronto Public Library Foundation…The evening will conclude with a fashion show featuring the work of six Toronto designers. Each designer was paired with a book that shares a common thread to the designer’s aesthetic or philosophy…Adrian Wu, who was paired with Margaret Atwood’s science-fiction essay collection, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. It’s a bright idea, considering Wu’s voluminous spring/summer 2012 collection was partly inspired by quantum physics, specifically the double-slit experiment, which deals with the behaviour of light waves and particles…”

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