Word: casuality
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...probe unexplored fashion territory. "We've reached a point in Japanese society where people don't necessarily look up high for their fashion inspiration," says Takizawa. "In fact, even many older people have started to look to the street for inspiration, and that's making the whole culture more casual?and more creative...
...Takizawa embodies that casual creativity. Born in 1960, Issey Miyake's heir apparent has overseen rarefied collections with names like Pressed, Shade and Smoothed Edges. But even as he was earning accolades from the jet set, Takizawa says he was drawing his truest inspiration from a little swatch of antique denim fashioned during California's Gold Rush. "For people of my generation in Japan, denim represented freedom and individuality," says Takizawa. With more younger buyers crowding his store, Takizawa decided it was time to debut this most plebeian of fabrics on the runway. The loosely tailored jeans that resulted from...
...When I heard last week that Segundo had died, I was saddened and actually quite surprised. Yes, he was 95. And I don't doubt his claim that he had been smoking cigars since 1912. And in the 1980's, many casual music observers thought he was already dead, so completely had the world forgotten him. But now Compay Segundo was clearly on a roll: adored by his people, wealthy beyond reckoning in pesos, and still performing the music he loved...
...about how you look, say fashionista inquisitors Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. "But we're not your best friends. And we will." For instance, those track pants make your rear end look like a watermelon. Your overtight bra makes you look as if you have four breasts. And that casual outfit is "a little bit Mr. Garbage Collector." What Not subjects win a £2,000 ($3,300) shopping spree, with a catch: they have to turn themselves and their closets over to Woodall, Constantine and a battery of hidden cameras for a detailed, unsparing, public dressing down...
...lack of intellectual pretense. No Freudian issues are explored. No reference is made to any philosophical systems, fashionable or not. Angels' director, McG, is one of those pop-culture polymaths, up out of music videos, who can refer to anything, from Dirty Harry to A Star Is Born, with casual aptness. And he knows how to refresh action-movie cliches without undue strain. Give this guy a script to direct instead of a structure to fill in, and he could get really good. Meantime, if you switch all critical faculties to the OFF position, you might have a nice night...