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...representations of foot-bound Chinese women and lotus shoes. Upstairs are examples of undergarments worn though the years to enable women to fit into the fashions of the day (no big Bridget Jones panties, though) and modern designs that attempt to change the body structure. Think a Comme des Garçons' pillow dress, which for thousands of dollars contrived to make the well-dressed woman look as if she had been mysteriously inflated in all the wrong places...
...exhibition called "2 Women" is devoted to two design icons who, in different eras and on different continents, radically changed the way women dress: Rei Kawakubo, the Japanese woman who founded Comme des Garçons in 1969 and showed it in Paris in 1981, and the legendary Coco Chanel. Kawakubo will be staging five different runway shows around the city over the course of the festival's run. "Rei didn't want something static," said Van Saene, who curated this exhibition. Chanel, who died in 1971, didn't have a choice. She gets an exhibit in the former Royal...
Admittedly, his first moments have been rocky. Firing coach Gar Heard right off the bat certainly shook things up. Still, Heard's only head coaching experience before that was an interim position with Dallas' Mavericks, who performed a miserable 9-44 under his guidance...
Brecht intends the audience to remain conscious of the artificiality of the actions on stage to that it can intellectually process the play's themes, rather than becoming emotionally involved. Sandman fulfills Brecht's challenge by presenting Galy Gar's transformation with consistent theatricality...
...boats of that quality, prices are rising at least 10% annually. At the first-ever auction of antique powerboats, which took place in May in Newport, R.I., a 33-ft. Baby Gar, once owned by Chewing Gum Heir P.K. Wrigley, fetched a bid of $95,000; the current owner, Milton Merle, was asking $140,000 and declined the offer. "It's a one-of-a-kind collectible," declared Merle, a New York marketing consultant who has amassed a fleet of seven vintage runabouts...