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...clothes that give the exhibit its full zest."The East Village" celebrates invention and the kind of creativity that is uninhibited by the fine points of technique, and it presents, in one humongous Day-Glo capsule, the liveliest fashion scene in the country. Some of the designers' names --including Susan Backus, Keni Valenti and Bayard--may pop up some day soon in more commercial settings. The show as a whole may or may not be a barometer of where street-savvy American fashion is headed, but downtown is the direction to go for spirit, smarts and a little...
Much of 20th century American design seems to have been animated by two competing impulses. One is a kind of mannered childishness, a sometimes arch toymaker's instinct that produced the streamlined gadgetry of late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture of today. The other is a reformist urge. When not fashioning playthings, designers turn grave, producing furniture and other objects that are neo- Puritan, high-minded. The severe geometries of Frank Lloyd Wright's turn- of- the-century interiors and Steven Holl's beautiful side chair (1984), for example...
Here's some crucial Christmas advice, kids: Don't let Mom and Dad sneak off to the toy stores until they've done their homework. It's a jungle out there, full of Thundercats and Sectaurs, Pound Puppies and Glo Worms, GoBots and Transformers--in short, no place for the innocent. What could be more embarrassing than to have the old folks, however well intentioned, come home with the wrong stuff! Remember what happened when you sent them shopping for video games a few years ago, and they returned with an Etch-A-Sketch? What they need is at least...
...been a striking bifurcation between toys that portray war and those that suggest the psychedelic peace symbols of the '60s. In the former catagory we have black and gray Voltrons, Zybots, Immortals of Change, Gobots, Grapplors, and the TV stars Masters of the Universe. The latter group includes the Glo Worm Musical World (remember the Plastic Exploding Inevitable?), Care Bear Cousins, Hugga Bunch Dolls, Pianosaurus, My Little Pony with Pony Wear Clothes and Jewelry, Baby Hugs or Tugs (take your pick, I guess), Rainbow Brite and Co., and finally the Cabbage Patch Dimensional Gift...
...turn back to the girl in the denim jacket, the girl who used to be a Mod but now considers herself a Quaker, the girl who admires Edie Sedgwick and gets turned on by Day-Glo running shoes...