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Though originally conceived as a direct portrayal of Asian-American experience—the first show being partly set in San Francisco’s Chinatown??Identities has developed a different relationship with this community in the past two years. Another creative director Jane Chun ’12, a Crimson magazine comper, says she partly used fashion to respond to the current social, political, and economic climate. “Why do women want to dress this way? Why are certain trends occurring? These greater questions extend from fashion to a much larger stage. Yes, fashion...
...Harvard students come from families with median incomes in the six figures, according to the admissions office, which contrasts to $27,133—and a 27.1 percent poverty level—in Roxbury—where MHASP operates. And Chinatown??where Harvard students can volunteer to work with the elderly, teenagers, and children as part of programs run by the Chinatown committee—has a median income of $14,829 and poverty level of 37 percent...
What they did was divide the show into four segments, each representing different parts of the Asian-American identity: “Inspirations,” which featured standard runway fashion, “East Meets West,” “Chinatown?? and the “Golden Ghetto,” which focused on the San Franciso Bay Area Asian-American community...
...concerned less with the videos themselves than with the situation in which they were presented.As Lambert-Beatty put it, “It’s not like Netflix.”Their goal was to interact with the community around them—New York’s Chinatown??by presenting high art material in a format that most people were familiar with. Therefore, they modeled their “social sculpture” on the neighborhood video rental store, and the work of art was that people could walk in, check out a video for free...
Classics often have the stigma of being good for you, but not really enjoyable. “Chinatown?? retains a very fierce bite...