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...same sense of fecund decay as Genji's Heian period?in both eras, society has become complex, gaudy but, finally, ennui-inducing. Now, as then, it is more rewarding to scrutinize the smallest signs of every human interaction rather than engage in the tawdry world outside the concubine's boudoir?or love hotel's rumpus room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Distant Mirror? | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...elegant windows and high-ceilings are the perfect backdrop for the Governor’s opulent mansion. In one particularly playful use of the set in Act II, Cherubino, played by Kathleen A. Stetson ’02, tries to escape imminent capture in the Rosina’s boudoir. Stetson pops open the dining hall window and climbs into the adjacent courtyard to the delighted gasps of the audience...

Author: By Michelle Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Delicious Treat in Dining Hall | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...chapter. Art director Catherine Martin reimagined the famous Montmartre nightclub as something like Pee-wee's Playhouse in Gotham City, stuffed to bursting with bright ideas and dark corners. The inspirations came from everywhere--fashion photography, the technicolor "Paris" of old Hollywood, the Bhagavad Gita. Plus there's a boudoir-in-an-elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Design | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...chapter. Art director Catherine Martin reimagined the famous Montmartre nightclub as something like Pee-wee's Playhouse in Gotham City, stuffed to bursting with bright ideas and dark corners. The inspirations came from everywhere - fashion photography, the technicolor "Paris" of old Hollywood, the Bhagavad Gita. Plus there's a boudoir-in-an-elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...night. They come out during fashion week in Paris. Dior designer JOHN GALLIANO, whose last couture line was inspired by homelessness, this time claimed the correspondence of Sigmund Freud sparked his desire to make clothes that a child might see while looking through the keyhole of his mother's boudoir. (Presumably Mrs. G. was not a T.J. Maxx shopper.) The show was staged as a mock wedding, with cross-bearing mandarins and gorilla women strolling down the runway to a sound track of orgasmic moans. A few were outraged, but most fashion pros merely chuckled. As Freud might have said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 24, 2000 | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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