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...brief speech by Whitman and Alissa M. Gordon ’06, who worked on the corporation over the summer but left the company shortly after the runway show, the models began streaming out. The crowd became visibly excited when certain pieces emerged, such as the signature dress with flower petals on the straps. But for the most part they behaved politely, only murmuring to friends behind cupped palms. An upbeat techno playlist, which Remele later reprised at his trunk show, obscured their infrequent chatter. Most of the women in the audience were dressed as formally as the models...
...minutes I am wearing: $11 jeans, gold slippers, useless gold belt, childsize velour sweatshirt, and a handmade flower hair pin from the Ashby Flea Market. In 15 years I am wearing: The same $11 jeans and all my own handmade originals...
...stage with few props and very small set, a woman (Marissa Chibas) makes preparations for an unknown event. As she mops the floor, lights candles, and tears flower petals, she talks about her life...
...With its grandiose monuments and rows of orderly apartment blocks, Pyongyang looks impervious to any threat. At a flower exhibition consisting exclusively of a red begonia named after the Dear Leader (the Kimjongilia) and a purple orchid named after his father (the Kimilsungia), North Korean visitors gush about the joy of living in a workers' paradise. "Thanks to the wise guidance of the great leader, life has improved so much," a soldier assures us. That may be true for members of the privileged ? lite, of whom we catch glimpses as they are ferried around town in Mercedeses with tinted...
...Schirn in Frankfurt from Nov. 2 to Feb. 12, and then at Vienna's Kunsthalle Wien from May 5 to Sept. 3. The original organizers (it started life at Tate Liverpool in England) say it's time to rediscover "this forgotten and repressed aesthetic." It's already happening: bizarre flower prints are back in style, and '60s furniture is highly collectible...