I wrote about Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi, my favourite Finnish designer and Issey Miyake's fashion mom, for Apartamento magazine #7, 2011.
"If you don't ask yourself, you'll never get the answer."
Never boring and never bored, Vuokko's always had her own questions. She has, for example, used batteries in clothes to keep them warm, as long as 50 years ago, and blocked holes in printing machines with chewing gum in order to enable larger patterns in her fabrics for the early Marimekko collections. 'Design Mom' piece discusses the establishment of this "Vuokko way of thinking", and how nothing has ever stopped her since.
See also: 'Symbolic Space' in Apartamento #8, 2011, 'The Mushroom Theory' in #6, 2010 and 'Home for Abstract Content' in #5, 2010. Portrait: Kaarle Hurtig.
