Word: kitsched
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...always as pleasant as a picture postcard. The streets are tidy and orderly, the citizens patriotic and the children sing in perfect harmony. From the plastic flowers in the hotels to the plastic music of the Arirang mass-gymastics-and-propaganda fest we were expected to attend, sugar-coated kitsch appeared to have run amok...
...ever couture sneaker collection; to design them, it has selected New Delhi's most outlandish couturier, 33-year-old Manish Arora. Retailing at up to $500 a pair in India (and considerably more in New York City), Reebok's Fish Fry range reflects the explosive use of color and kitsch for which Arora is fast becoming known. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet...
...first-ever couture sneaker collection; to design them, it has selected New Delhi's most outlandish couturier, 33-year-old Manish Arora. Retailing at up to $500 a pair in India (and considerably more in New York), Reebok's Fish Fry range reflects the explosive use of color and kitsch for which Arora is fast becoming known. The most intricate of his 12 designs uses embossed suede, rhinestones and crystals. With only a few hundred of each model available, they are already this season's must-have. Arora says Reebok chose him partly because India is so au courant...
...that resembles a colorful digestive tract designed to be crawled around in. The Fool, a three-person design team employed by the Beatles, created the poster A Is for Apple (1967), with its warped landscape, stars, parrots and smiling Native American. It demonstrates how designers of psychedelia recycled old kitsch: Art Nouveau squiggles, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Victorian advertisements and early Hollywood movies. Thanks to the invention of DayGlo in the late '40s, artists turned this ragbag into something hallucinatory. This was the art that teenagers peeled off hoardings to hang in their bedrooms...
...that resembles a colorful digestive tract designed to be crawled around in. The Fool, a three-person design team employed by the Beatles, created the poster A Is for Apple (1967), with its warped landscape, stars, parrots and smiling Native American. It demonstrates how designers of psychedelia recycled old kitsch: Art Nouveau squiggles, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Victorian advertisements and early Hollywood movies. Thanks to the invention of DayGlo in the late '40s, artists turned this ragbag into something hallucinatory. This was the art that teenagers peeled off hoardings to hang in their bedrooms. In New Aleph Sanctury...