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...Pokemon characters and trolling for candy this week. On the gridiron, costumes won’t fool fans any longer. It’s already Week 7, the time of year when squads’ true characters are revealed, when the metaphorical face paint peels off and the metaphorical papier mache comes unstuck. In the thick of the Ivy League schedule, the contenders separate themselves from the pretenders, cute as they may be in their fake furry tails and big glasses with rubber noses attached...
Like sought-after handbags, every so often the design world has a buzzed-about It item of its own, and never are those goods more desirable than when there's an intersection with the fashion world. Hence the increasing levels of excitement surrounding Farfelus Farfadets, a charming collection of papier-mâché sculptures that French couple Anne Freisz and Laurant Poumarat have been designing since 1996. Displaying the handmade works of art, which are available at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City and mostly take the form of animals but also the odd musical instrument, has become a rite...
...Notably, two characters appeared intermittently in giant, papier-mâché eyeball costumes. The eyeballs here constituted a larger-than-life visual anomaly in a play where everything else seems comfortably life-sized...
...average age was 19. What that must have done to the brain of a young kid. And then going home--but not normally, like most kids. The government put them out on this war-bond drive. They came back to a million people at Times Square and climbing these papier-mâché mountains, all this Hollywood kind of stuff. In fact, we're talking about the propaganda machine. The propaganda machine is our subject matter...
...their faces. You could put anybody on those papier-mâché mountains and say, "These are the guys who raised the flag." Who was to know...