{"id":121876,"date":"2022-10-07T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=121876"},"modified":"2022-10-07T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T07:00:15","slug":"counterculture-design-legend-kaffe-fassett-i-m-that-bizarre-beast-a-man-who-does-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/counterculture-design-legend-kaffe-fassett-i-m-that-bizarre-beast-a-man-who-does-textiles","title":{"rendered":"Counterculture design legend Kaffe Fassett: &#8216;I&#8217;m that bizarre beast &#8211; a man who does textiles&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaffe Fassett with the white cabinet he painted using acrylics and a little glaze to soften it.It took the knitter and textile designer Kaffe Fassett two goes at buying his four-floor Victorian home in north London. In 1971, he got one floor with a &#163;400 deposit but had to wait 20 years before buying the rest. &#8220;When I entered textiles, no one was doing what I was doing with colour. I think a lot of the old hippy girls loved that, but some people thought I was a disgrace to the industry,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It took me a while to actually make any money.&#8221;After a chance meeting with the director John Schlesinger at a party, Fassett handed him a copy of James Leo Herlihy&#8217;s Midnight Cowboy, suggesting he make it into a film. Flicking through, Schlesinger told Fassett it was &#8220;too depressing &#8211; but then before I knew it, Dustin Hoffman had been cast and then they called me into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took the knitter and textile designer Kaffe Fassett two goes at buying his four-floor Victorian home in north London. In 1971, he got one floor with a &#163;400 deposit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,1],"tags":[151,208,19,153,6,484],"class_list":["post-121876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty-fashion","category-news","tag-beauty-fashion","tag-designers-collections","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-lifestyle","tag-paintings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}