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...Fur-get it. Last week the fashion faithful of New York were out in full force. One could detect a new spring in the step of many a clotheshorse as women rushed through the slush in their Prada heels for front seats at the fall 2000 shows. The Oscar de la Renta show, held in the main tent in Bryant Park, took center stage. De la Renta revealed a cutting edge collection of sable-trimmed vests and miniskirts in suede or leather, ball dresses and snakeskin shirts...
...headlines said. The dailies offered little comment on the fashionistas' studied ignorance of two anti-fur protestors who interrupted the show and were forcibly escorted out by security guards. Nary a false eyelash was batted in the direction of the commotion; the show went on as scheduled. The lack of attention paid to the demonstrators seemed not so much the result of troubled conscience as that of sheer indifference...
...distracting way. God (Dan Berwick '01) is not dressed as an old man with a white beard as one might expect but as a clean-shaven red-robed preacher figure. Act I's storytellers wear all white, and after the fall of man, Eve and Adam don fur vests. Yet in Act II, we find Noah and his children wearing twentieth century rain ponchos. The play is an incomplete anachronism. Ham (Noam Osband '03) wields a gun, while Cain (John Keefe '01) dances around Stonehenge. Cullum's costumes promote a general sense of ambiguity and instead of toying with...
Erica M. Waddell '03 sets her tray on the table, brisk and businesslike in the stormy silver fur of her coat. Runway veteran, recent resident of five states, the new queen of costuming and first-year only by date, she surveys my nappy blues and corduroys. I feel suddenly underdressed...
...friend from high school managed to get me into Starbucks, the very den of The Man. And as I paid for my coffee, I saw it. A cute little teddy bear, all dressed up for Halloween in a black velvet skeleton costume. His acrylic eyes, his fuzzy synthetic fur--it was all too much. I forked over the cash and brought the bear home. What easier way for the Man to gain access to my home, than through the commissioned agent Mr. Bear...