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Wannabe harlot Gardenia M. Orchardsby ’04 looked soooooo hot in that dress the other night—according to her online diary, which was religiously read by a small but devoted cadre of fans in 20 DeWolfe. Orchardsby’s devotees were crushed when she recently took the site down for unspecified reasons, but appreciated the shoutout on her away message when she complained that she “really wasn’t that interesting, despite the fact that everyone at this school seems to read my journal.” Don?...
...subtle character pieces--and the unsubtle ones, like the bitter man who pretends to crush his enemies' heads between his fingers. Before the media discovered him in the '90s, the Angry White Male had arrived on TV. And as it turned out, he sometimes liked to wear a dress. --By James Poniewozik
...David, one can't help but think of Andy Warhol's Sleep - the 1963 work in which he trained his 16-mm camera on the slumbering form of the poet John Giorno, coupled, perhaps, with the rich hues and dark settings of a Caravaggio. But never mind. You can dress it up any way you please, but David is nothing more than an hour's footage of a really handsome, really famous footballer fast asleep. And that's enough for those of us in Room 41. Our thoughts are full of the beauty of Beckham, and the creamy blue light...
...dress in Lilly’s 2004 collection is described as: “Nassau Blue Macadamia Nut House.” This seemingly odd concoction of descriptors is strangely appropriate for the Lilly look, for the “nut house” is essentially where Lilly Pulitzer as a brand all started. Born into New York society, marrying money and lacking a livelihood, Lilly, then wife of Peter Pulitzer who was grandson of the Pulitzer-Prize-Pulitzer, had a breakdown, spent the requisite New York woman’s time in a mental institution (her friends called...
...opened up a store selling oranges and other citrus fruit. Legend has it that she needed a dress with a colorful pattern that would obscure the juice that got on her clothing (an occupational hazard if I’ve ever heard of one). Rising to the challenge, Pulitzer sewed herself a handful of dresses in bright colors that were new, cute and popular, and requests for them quickly began pouring in from all over Palm Beach. Once Jackie Kennedy, a friend and classmate of Lilly’s at Chapin girls’ school in New York, wore...