Dear Reader
Billy Collins
Baudelaire considers you his brother,
and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs
as if to make sure you have not closed the book,
and now I am summoning you up again,
attentive ghost, dark silent figure standing
in the doorway of these words.
Pope welcomes you into the glow of his study,
takes down a leather-bound Ovid to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘fashion’
February 16, 2009
various projects
January 17, 2009
Feminist Fashion #3 NWS
Previous posts: 1, 2
February’s Vogue Paris has an editorial featuring models Lara Stone and Travis, photographed by Steven Klein and entitled “Lara Fiction Noire.”
The one clever thing is that there are no guns anywhere in the editorial, this attempt at noir fiction:
In this sub-genre, the protagonist is usually not a detective, but instead either a [...]
July 25, 2008
I like to be well dressed, but…
Women’s Wear Daily reports:
Ports 1961 has struck a deal with NBC Universal to dress four female commentators for NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and USA Network during the Games, which take place Aug. 8 to 24.
So I know that Ports only has a womenswear division, but isn’t it, hmm, weird that only the female commentators are supposed [...]
July 12, 2008
my review of Red Cliff:
Good.
Action scenes are many and some times overly long.
Some of the battle formations are well-loved Chinese tales. They may seem very weird to those not familiar with the stories.
Many historical inaccuracies, as reported by movie critics.
The one historical inaccuracy I noted was that in the film, Zhu Ge Liang is younger than Zhou Yu. But since [...]
May 28, 2008
I love clothes.
Just to make that clear. I love clothes. Usually, as a high school student with a minimum wage job and no allowance, I can’t afford them. I have to save up for a couple months to buy some high-end items, so usually I just go to eBay and buy some scarves or something.
But this coat/jacket:
Has [...]
April 25, 2008
good for Vogue (maybe).
So it’s official. Vogue Italia is having an all-black issue.
Let’s hope they get it right, and not wrong.
I find it interesting that the Vogue UK blurb first calls it an issue that will “feature only non-white models” and then says the issue will be “featuring black models.” Non-white = black?
April 25, 2008
well, I think men’s bodies are most flattering with no clothes on, so they shouldn’t wear anything on the streets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/fashion/24DRESSES.html
The problem with the main argument in that NYTimes article, that men like to look at women in dresses and thus women should wear dresses (oh no! the pant! how horrible! it helps women cross their legs – but where are the ultra-feminine dresses of the pre-second-wave-feminism era?!), is that then women should be making [...]
