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...Tokyo, where fashion is taken as seriously as politics, Junya Watanabe's collections spark more scrutiny than the latest governmental bailout plan. Maybe it's because while the parliament mires the country in the same old, same old, Watanabe and the avant-garde designer pack he runs with--Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo--make Japan, and design aficionados worldwide, try to envision what is to come...
...regularly dragged her young daughter on cosmetics-buying sprees. "She was always mixing up colors because there wasn't anything out there for black skin," says McGrath. After graduating from art school, McGrath began her professional career in the mid-'90s, advancing a minimalist no-makeup look in avant-garde music and fashion publications like i-D and later in mainstream periodicals such as the U.S. and Italian Vogue...
Lynes’ early friendship with Gertrude Stein helped him find a foothold in the Paris avant garde art world even before he took up professional photography...
...Your wife says she wants a Monet print from the Met, but don't you think she might actually be much happier with a Lichtenstein or a Warhol? We think so, too. Even after your visit to the gift shop, there's plenty to see at the Whitney, from avant-garde lawn sculptures to totally incomprehensible oil paintings. Note to party leaders: Please alert Museum staff well ahead of time in the event that John Ashcroft wishes to pay a visit. Staff will require at least a week for ordering and positioning special opaque draping materials...
...production budget is unusually generous, allowing him 60 actors, a choir and a 70-member orchestra. All that manpower has created an unclassifiable theatrical experience. "It's not a drama, or a Peking opera, or modern dance, or Western opera," says Gao. It's all of the above, an avant-garde East-West fusion that tells the story of Huineng, a seventh-century Buddhist monk whose unnerving autonomy mirrors that of the author...