Word: garments
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...half hours after Alexandra M. Hays ’’09 is given 24 dollars and 24 hours to construct an outfit for FM’s fashion challenge, she is poking through the sea of $1.50 a pound clothing the Garment District. Hays is on a mission to find something “black and silky,” which she plans to transform into a dress with a collage of Drew Faust’s face on the back. She collects items haphazardly, but balks when she realizes that the clothes weigh more than 20 pounds...
...color-renovated versions forces viewers to break their own pre-established mold of what is considered usual and unusual in ancient art. Now in color, the sculptures are brought closer to the reality that we encounter everyday, where blue and brown eyes, red lips, flushed cheeks, and colored garments are not only presumed but utterly normal. WHOLE NEW CONTEXTS Adding color to two models of the same sculpture brings to attention details that were lost through the wearing of time. For example, the famous “‘Peplos’ Kore,” (c. 530 B.C.E...
...This is what he has been doing on most weekends since Seinfeld went off the air: traveling to stand-up gigs across the country. No press, no entourage, just a tour manager, a garment bag and an opening act (usually one of Seinfeld's old friends-Mario Joyner, Tom Papa or Mark Schiff). "Doing my act and working on that-that's my job," says Seinfeld. "To actually do your creative thing right in front of an audience and have them judge it right there-that's exciting." His life on the road was chronicled in the 2002 documentary Comedian...
...years, garment unions in the West have hemorrhaged jobs to China, with its cheap, non-unionized workers. After Beijing won the '08 games, the unions banded into an alliance, called Play Fair 2008, to spotlight conditions in plants where the right to organize is denied. The report concluded: "The Olympic games is both a symbolic and practical opportunity to ensure that these global sporting events live up to the ideals enshrined in the Olympic charter and that people who enjoy the games can also know that the souvenirs and garments they wear are produced in factories where basic human dignity...
...just traveled halfway around the world, and that garment bag you've been lugging feels like a Buick on your back. You arrive at your posh hotel, and an overly costumed valet grabs the bag, carries it all of 50 yards to reception and bids you good day. You are expected to cough up a tip. And you might not see your belongings again for another half an hour while the bag makes its way to your room...