Word: fashionability
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Student models strutted down the runway in front of a sold-out crowd in Annenberg Hall Saturday night during the third annual Identities Fashion Show, sponsored by the Asian American Association. The models showed off clothes that explored the interplay between fashion and cultural identity, with a focus on the Asian American experience. Three themed acts—Demure Danger, Asian Americana, and Street Culture—exhibited mixes of Eastern and Western styles. Designers from Harvard College, the Parsons School of Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology showcased their work in two “Student Design?...
...former chief dance critic at the New York Times; former New York City Ballet dancer Toni Bentley; and current Boston Ballet director Mikko Nissinen, as well as Harvard faculty and visiting professors of history, music, and drama from colleges around the globe. Lecture topics range from “Fashion for Russia” to “Balanchine and Massine” and “Igor Stravinsky.” In addition, an exhibition, “Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909-1929: Twenty Years that Changed the World of Art,” has been...
...Thermals find themselves on the long road through self-parody. It’s difficult, at first, to listen to a band squander the potential of a record like “Machine” on such a middling follow-up. But then again maybe, in appropriately punk fashion, they only had one great record in them anyway.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...have a bottom-up approach to the narrative where the public can create its own journey and share it with others,” Umar continues. “So you can see the museum from the point of view of an 11-year-old or a fashion designer or a tennis player.”A TEAM EFFORTAs MuseTrek culls the public’s diverse insights about art, individuals elsewhere are exploring how the process of artistic creation is affected by a collective. David L. Rice ’10 is working on a web-based project...
Heag Mobilo, a public-transportation company in Darmstadt, financed its purchases of new street cars through a similar arrangement. The city of Stuttgart leased and rented back its drinking-water system. Bottrop, a city in the Ruhr industrial region, financed a sewage-treatment plant in the same fashion, and Ulm, a southern German city, did such a deal to pay for construction of a refuse incinerator...