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...generation. His extravagant runway shows are legendary; he once transformed Paris' Gare d'Austerlitz into a North African suq and hired an antique steam engine to transport models into the station. He gave an Edwardian garden party at the Bagatelle and re-created a turn-of-the-century gala at the Opera Garnier. But more important, he has changed the way we dress, the very proportions of our clothes, cutting dresses and jackets on the bias--against the grain of the fabric--so that they spiral around the body and give women a sinuous, sexier shape...
This is the Harvard University Art Museums Spring Gala, an event featuring gallery talks, music, food and alcohol. It is open to museum benefactors, ‘Student Friends’ of the art museums and paying guests...
...admits that museum gala nights satiate more than just her aesthetic appetite. “We love art,” she says, “but they also have champagne and strawberries. When we heard about the bubbly, we were like, ‘Oh my god, we’re so there...
...Such dissent fails to dampen the ardor of Schnabel's devotees, or the artist himself. At an opening-night gala, Schnabel complained that "there are so few people interested in art that it's our responsibility to talk it up." He protested that "painting is not Internet friendly. But painting will hold together long after your computers are broken, because of its soul." And he announced, "This is a jungle painting," standing in front of Apathy, an immense 8-m by 6-m work showing a skeletal centaur-like figure leaping across a grease-streaked backdrop...
...says Cyd Wilson, an IN STYLE contributing editor who does the magazine's Golden Globes and Oscar bashes as well as PEOPLE's Screen Actors Guild Awards party. "We started a month earlier to compensate," she says. Yet last Monday she and her staff, still bleary from the Globes gala, were already in crisis mode for the Oscar and SAG parties. Can they get their work done? "We haven't lived through it yet," Wilson says. "Ask me after it's over...