more…Goodbye Gilmore Girls, goodbye Connecticut…

Last show promo…

Looking back it was a funny coincidence that we left Connecticut to start our new life in the UK, in the summer of 2006 as Rory was leaving Connecticut to start her new life as a journalist. And as I watched that last episode I was a little choked up remembering our life in the United States.

Malu has run Hazelnut studio for five years, but the idea started way back in the late 1990s when she was studying communications for a year at Harvard and I was working for the British government in New York promoting UK fashion.

The UK leads the world in textile design with over 100 active studios on the road marketing their designs around the world. In the last 20 years the surface design industry has grown rapidly, as manufacturers closed in-house design studios finding it more cost-effective to buy designs from freelance studios, who are better able to concentrate on keeping up with the new and emerging trends.

This is because the fashion and the consumer goods industry now moves so quickly, constantly churning out new collections, with manufacturers and designers often required to make eight deliveries a year. Unlike years ago when there were just spring and fall collections.

Consequently, it became more efficient for manufacturers just to buy in the designs, as it is hard enough for them to try to stay on top of their market, knowing what the emerging trends are.

Meanwhile, back to the Gilmore Girls. I think the reason we enjoyed them so much is because we are the visual of version of easy listening music. Giving an idealised romantic looking vision of small town living in the USA. Which honestly was so unrealistic because when we lived in Litchfield County the ground was snow-covered from October until April.

For almost 5 months, during that year, whenever I looked out of any of the window around the house, all I ever saw was a field of white, with the occasional animal footprints and tracks dotting the surface of the snow.

The saddest moment:



The last scene:



Best Scenes ever…