Word: checkerboards
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...thigh-high boot effect without the boot. With a vision of luxury first, sexy space-cadet second, Karl in Paris beat Karl in Milan. Black and white In Milan, Dolce & Gabbana used Op-Art patterns on skin-tight dresses. But the look worked better in Paris, where the checkerboard pattern on McQueen's suits showed off the well-cut tailoring on which he's made his name. Military How many ways can designers approach officer chic? Plenty. At Gucci in Milan, the military trench coat was sexy - with a high collar, corseted waist and satin finish. In Paris, Branquinho...
Kussell, now a graduate, showed a single, small portrait whose subdued colors and soft rendering emanated innocence and freshness. David Ording, of the Fogg Museum’s Mongan Center, contributed a checkerboard of pencil thumbnail drawings of everyday objects seemingly inspired by Chardin’s “The Smoker’s Case,” which is depicted in the upper right corner...
...cinch for Tracy. The school authorities declare that our heroine's hairdo is a "hair-don't" and exile her to the special ed class. She and Link Larkin, her "common-law boyfriend," are ostracized from their keen teen group. Her best friend, Penny Pingleton, is denounced as a "checkerboard chick" for dating a black student. True to its early-60s milieu, the film climaxes in demonstrations, violent disputes, jail time for the civil-rights marchers. And (this is a fantasy, folks) they danced happily ever after...
...cardboard, so creatures underneath can peek out the windows. Slip it off and you see the inner jacket that forms the small, four and half by six-inch box. It unfurls completely into a bright pink, blue and yellow abstraction on one side and a black and white checkerboard on the other. Like a present, you unwrap it with excitement until, unexpectedly, the contents come pouring into your lap - twelve individual "mini" comix, each with their own color cover, and each by a different artist...
...second exhibit, a collection of ink drawings by Marlene Dumas, a South African living in Amsterdam, explores the interplay between historical notions of feminine beauty, photography and art. The drawings—displayed checkerboard style in an almost dizzying array—mix traditional and contemporary figures of female beauty with androgynous faces based on photographs from a book depicting insanity. The line between the beautiful and the grotesque is blurred not only by androgyny, but also by the side-by-side placement of figures as disparate as round, curvaceous Ruben-esque women and today’s waifish models...