In Technicolor Dreaminʼ Karen Moller has given us a personal and critical history of the counter-culture, from beatnik San Francisco and New York to hippie Paris and London, to Fluxus, to the feminist and fashion revolutions, to the aftermath of it all. This is a delightful memoir by an artist and designer who has seen it all and done it all and who took good notes and thought hard about what it all meant, all along the way.

Her memoir gives us a personal and critical history of the artist’s counterculture, from beatnik San Francisco and New York, to hippie Paris and London, to feminist and fashion revolutions and the aftermath of it all. She lived out the hottest moments in the 60’s, including the barricades in Paris. The freshness of voice and delighted wonder that permeate the illuminating, often hilarious personal anecdotes is both irresistible and touching.

In Technicolor Dreamin' Karen Moller has given us a highly personal and critical history of the counter culture, from beatnik San Francisco and New York, to hippie Paris and Swinging London, to Fluxus and the feminist revolution, to dazzling success in the fashion and the aftermath of it all. The freshness of the voice and delighted wonder that permeate the illuminating, often hilarious personal anecdotes is both irresistible and touching. This is a delightful memoir by an artist and designer who has seen it all and done it all and who took good notes and thought hard about what it meant, all along the way.

An exhilarating first-person gallop through more than thirty Summers of Love, plenty of insider hanging out and anecdotes with artists like Yves Klein painting wiomen blue, not to mention Corso, Burroughs and Warhol. Over the course of three decades, Karen met pretty much every hip personality that defined the times

I really enjoyed this book which has showed me along the sixties. Karen Moller has pushed me into these years and has reminded me of many situations and feelings I had already forgotten. A very interesting and generous view on art, design, literature and life.
Her starting point was -after a happy childhood- California under the spell of Kerouac's On The Road. She does not change her lifestyle and continues on the move: New York, Paris, London -Canada and family in the background-she lives under the overwhelming power of the artistic world of the 60's. Ginsberg, Daniel Spoerri, Duchamp, Hundertwasser, appear along its pages. Bookshops -City Lights in Northern Beach, Paris' Shakespeare and Co or the Librairie Anglaise where poetry readings used to take place, together with other haunting places like the Chelsea hotel or the Beat Hotel offer a wonderful trip that starts in the 50s and reaches today's reader. It is also a book for somebody who is interested in fashion and fabric design with these issues participating in general artistic trends. Highly recommendable.!!!

If you're interested in the private lives of people who make the fashion world, how they started and how they got to the top, you might want to pick up a copy of Karen Moller's memoir, Technicolor Dreamin' in her own fashion .
In her fresh and engaging voice, award-winning fashion designer and consultant Moller takes us on a trip through time, from the moment she was a rebel, restless, idealistic teen in rural Canada and decided to leave home and hitchhike to pursue her dreams, to witnessing and experiencing the counter-culture revolution of the 60s and 70s, to San Francisco, New York, London and Paris and working with such celebrities as Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, and The Beatles, to the creation of her successful fashion consulting firm, Trend Union, in 1985.
The memoir starts in present time with Moller having a conversation with her young niece Adele, who wants to postpone her university education in order to travel and see the world. Moller advises her to read a copy of Kerouac's On the Road, a book that she read back in the 50s and that had an immense influence on her outlook on life. The book offered young Moller courage in her pursue of creative freedom and encouraged her to hitchhiked her way to San Francisco.
"Kerouac had seemed like some kind of God, a sort of prophet sent to liberate us from the conformist middle class lives we were being programmed to live," writes Moller.
Moller talks about her childhood, dealing with a mother who had no time for a girl and a father who was irrational, self centered and insensitive. Moller's dreams and creativity made her different in the eyes of her family. "I became a family joke," she writes.
It wasn't easy. She had to work herself through school and at times had little food to eat. But she persevered, and her talent and persistence eventually took her from San Francisco to New York to London, during which time she met and worked with many famous people. At the time, London was in the midst of a cultural revolution. The anti-war movement was at full swing and the city was alive with avant-garde art galleries and art centers. It was here that Moller started designing and printing her colorful textiles. She later moved to Paris, where she opened Trend Union.
Full of interesting anecdotes, the memoir is well written and offers an exciting and colorful glimpse into the world of fashion during the hippie revolution. Moller has a light and lively writing style that makes the reading experience engaging. The book is inspirational and proves that dreams can come true if we focus on what we love, work hard, don't give up, and reach for the stars.

Karen Moller's memoir Technicolor Dreamin'In Her Own Fashion was published in 2017. Chasing the Stars and Hoping to Shag the Moon is a critical follow up on those magical years that in many ways paved the way for the next generations. With her lifelong friend Cy, also a mad book-reading freak, and how books not only helped them find a way to live but how those years of economic abundance allowed them to develop their individual talents.
If this is a book about books-it is far from bookish! While the passionate dialogue of these kindred spirits ranges across the literary and art world, tantalizing footsteps of their own are traceable across these pages. Indeed the boundaries between real life and the life of fiction are often blurred and unless you read closely you may not know which landscape you are currently strolling in with them. The point is that here is a true dialogue of two graphically brilliant souls, not just a compilation of congenial exchanges but a true confrontation of minds. This rich delving into the past half century will be nostalgic and enlivening for those who lived through those years and inspirational and fascinating for those who didn't!