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Trinidad native Grace K. Sinclair ’07 was mightily impressed by the cultural sensitivity shown by the Fly Club’s annual Calypso garden party last week. As a social event, Sinclair gave the party average marks, but as a celebration of West Indian culture, she had only praise: “All those pink seersucker shorts and bony white legs made me feel like I was in a real British colony—it was a really nice touch...
...heart of this 90-minute production. The familiar obstacles of the Greek play are all present. Three hookers in a jail cell serve as the play’s Sirens, an unstable, one-eyed librarian is the Cyclops, and a mushroom tea-bearing tattoo mistress combines Circe and Calypso...
When Christiane Celle, the French owner of a boutique called Calypso on St. Bart's in the French West Indies, migrated north to New York's Nolita neighborhood in 1994, her bright and breezy peasant blouses ushered in a casual new uniform for skinny models, stylists, socialites and starlets. Paired with low-slung jeans and crocheted hip belts, the bohemian look seemed to symbolize liberation from the tyranny of all Gucci or Prada all the time. Soon designers like Tom Ford caught the bohemian bug, and a striking facsimile of the Calypso peasant blouse turned up on Vogue's September...
...didn't hurt that lines like Calypso's were selling for a lot less than designer labels. "Because of the weak economy, people don't want to spend a lot on trend items now," says Nicole Garrett of Habitual. "They want something they can wear for more than one season." Brands like Three Dots and Juicy Couture allowed consumers to assert their individuality discreetly with affordable yet designed products such as jeans and T shirts...
Melissa M. Gniadek ’02 was surprised when she breezed through Boston for a weekend and wasn’t allowed past the velvet rope and burly, out-sourced bouncer that kept non-invites out of the Fly’s annual Calypso party. “I just always think of the Calypso party as a big event everyone goes to when they get back to school,” Gniadek says. “I was never even that close to guys in the Fly, but they would always let us all in...I guess things...