Word: avante
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...designers look to the past - to the work of people like Saint Laurent - for inspiration. This season particularly, the fall 2004 runways were filled with recycled references as designers delved into archives, swiping the styles of the 1950s and 1960s and tweaking them with just a touch of the avant garde. Rising-star designers like Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga and the supremely talented Junya Watanabe, a protégé of Rei Kawakubo, both mixed the past with the present - showing shrunken jackets over full, tulip-shaped skirts, or, in Watanabe's case, pumping up the strictly tailored...
Today Mitchell could be dressing the part of the professor as avant-hipster, in a chic pale blue sweater, cocoa blazer and thin-rimmed glasses with a quirky pointed bridge. Mitchell’s two classes at Harvard this semester, VES 173x, “American Film Criticism” and Afro-American Studies 183, “The African American Experience in Film 1930-1970,” drew substantial crowds. The former, originally capped at 50, was changed to open enrollment, and109 undergraduates are currently taking the course. Students in the class, while enduring some organizational hurdles...
...carnivalesque party record that playfully combines the dazzling record scratching (of his DJ, Abilities) with his own lyrical acrobatics. The sharp meditations, smooth sampling and trippy beats are signs of a polished emergent star aiming for mainstream visibility. But his allegiances to an avant-garde vision are also clear: “I don’t care if you just broke up with your boyfriend/ I ain’t trying to go where every other rapper’s been,” he raps, typically self-conscious and indifferent...
...heads who haven’t heard his music know the apocryphal tale of how he once turned down a diamond-encrusted record deal from P. Diddy himself. If his music has become more accessible, he says, it’s not at the expense of his perpetual avant garde aspirations. “I always want to be on the cutting edge of something. If not on the cutting edge of a sub-culture or genre, because you can’t really choose that, I want to be on the cutting edge of my own psyche...
...world of Japanese architecture, Sejima is like Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons--an avant-garde talent with a keen business sense. Her firm's awards include an Architectural Institute of Japan prize and the Arnold W. Brunner prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has been invited to teach at Tokyo's Keio University and has won a string of high-profile projects, including the design of a new home for New York City's New Museum of Contemporary...