in dawson street opposite the mansion house, a pretty white doll's house with blue facing and a cast-iron porch, something yet dollier has appeared, the anna livia boutique. kay petersen of anna livia...cannily timed her first showing for "bloomsday eve" of this year. ...thirty-nine models, all "with joycean titles" and some, such as "molly bloom", intended as "direct interpretations of joyce's characters" - there was never a dull garment... "all you joycean scholars," said the commentator, "will appreciate for example "finnegan": kay petersen calls it her igloo outfit." and martello, the "stylised idea" of which should be as right for joyceans as for fashion people. and "proteus" (with reversible cape.) and sylvia silence: do you see the way it links?

from louis macneice.