{"id":16259,"date":"2012-09-06T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/?p=16259"},"modified":"2012-09-06T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:29:00","slug":"degen-owning-crafty-like-a-sexy-sexy-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/2012\/09\/06\/degen-owning-crafty-like-a-sexy-sexy-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Degen – Owning “Crafty” Like A Sexy Sexy Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

story by Lisa Radano
\nphotos by Charles Beckwith<\/p>\n

Amid a scattering of tent shaped totems, some reaching for the ceiling of the Industria loft space, Lindsay Degen<\/a>\u2019s androgynous boys and girls bounded about in her colorful knitwear and platform Converse high tops, like a merry band of urban jesters. The elfin RISD and Central St. Martins-trained designer was disarmingly enthusiastic about her collection, which has doubled in size and gender since her last outing. Understandable, given the arduous row-by-row nature of her craft, and the arithmetic skill it takes to create the patterns.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHand knitting takes a long time, so you have to really commit to each piece.\u201d<\/h2>\n

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Degen showed colorful long-john leggings, biker shorts with mismatched pant lengths, figure hugging maxi and mini skirts, bikinis and 1930\u2019s maillots, a crochet balaclava and knitted baseball caps, a cropped hoodie that barely covered the slight bust line of the model, and several tops with revealing circular cut outs, some trimmed in plastic goggle-eye beads.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were going for sexy but not vulgar. More like silly sexy.\u201d<\/h2>\n

Silly perhaps, but laborious \u2013 as everything, including the totems, was hand knit. Even the stap-on platforms she created to embellish many of the Converse high tops, had been touched by her knitting needles, imbuing each piece with a tactile, one of a kind verve, and undeniably optimistic feeling. I asked Ms. Degen if she ever gets tired of hearing the word whimsical<\/em>. She just laughed.<\/p>\n

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Amid a scattering of tent shaped totems, some reaching for the ceiling of the Industria loft space, Lindsay Degen\u2019s androgynous boys and girls bounded about<\/span> in her colorful knitwear and platform Converse high tops, like a merry band of urban jesters. The elfin RISD and Central St. Martins-trained designer was disarmingly enthusiastic about her collection, which has doubled in size and gender since her last outing. Understandable, given the arduous row-by-row nature of her craft, and the arithmetic skill it takes to create the patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,733],"tags":[909,75,764,910],"class_list":["post-16259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-shows-and-events","tag-degen","tag-knitwear","tag-lindsay-degen","tag-spring-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16273,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions\/16273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}