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...Hong Kong-based designer Ranee Kok Chui Wah added feathers and a long, sassy gold sash to her cheongsams, or traditional Chinese dresses; Malaysia's Beatrice Looi applied the country's batik dyeing method to her beaded and sequined silk organza formal wear; and Korean label Kang Ki Ok Urban Look painted the fiery phoenix, once deemed appropriate only for royalty, on the princess-seamed back of a denim dress. Urban Look design director Kwan Jung Ran says the idea is to show that beauty hides in the least obvious places. "Denim is vintage, casual and popular. We added extravagant...
...instructing his director (Don Hewitt! - everyone was young once) to hook up the first ?live? coast-to-coast broadcast link, between WCBS in New York and KPIX in San Francisco. (Alas, that station now carries ?CBS SM? in less-than-prime 6 a.m. slot. But that?s OK. Old people can time-shift...
Chicago-based rockers OK Go brought a rare commodity to the Middle East last Monday—fun, both mischievous and silly...
...moment when popsters’ ideas of a good time seem dangerously limited to drunkenness (The Strokes), public exposure (Janet) and grevious bodily harm (Jack White), OK Go prefer to make audiences giggle. Their eponymous album, released in late 2002, isn’t particularly gripping—a series of sunny pop songs equally influenced by emo and the retro-chic of bands like The Apples in Stereo. But OK Go, like all bands worth their salt, come into their own when playing live...
...OK Go has made a business of rehabilitating and refurbishing the kitschiest moments in pop music. After a particularly humorless and unnecessary opening band, Raymond, (“The worst crowd ever!” griped Raymond’s bassist), and after fixing some initial sound difficulties that buried frontman Damien Kulash Jr.’s voice in the mix, OK Go delivered an hour of catchy pop songs that were undeniably and infectiously fun. Kulash channeled the campy spirits of Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury and, in a glorious cover of “Hold the Line...