Word: provocateur
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...curtsy to the great Mansfield, who has once again proved himself to be Harvard’s most talented—and entertaining—provocateur...
...half of it. Like a building, even a bad one, a fashion photograph is the picture of an age, full of signposts to whatever spirits are at large. You sense that right away in just about any picture by Helmut Newton, photographer of consequence, full-time provocateur, dirty old man. In the 1970s Newton became famous with fashion shots that introduced to the pages of Vogue the black leather of European decadence. (This was before Robert Mapplethorpe showed us that dog collars were as American as Rin Tin Tin.) It was a moment of witchy aftershocks from the '60s, when...
Adjaye's most radical design statements have been made in his houses, a tricky place to play the provocateur, since for most clients home design is the architectural equivalent of comfort food. But he was fortunate in getting his early commissions from those art-school friends, people with spiky tastes and no stomach whatsoever for gingerbread. In the '90s, as they started to find success and money, they turned to Adjaye to give them houses as edgy as they were...
...video Jenny from the Block, and Halle Berry donned a sporty wide-side, low-hip brief in Die Another Day. "The shape is fresh and functional," says Sarah Easley, co-owner of the hip Manhattan clothing store Kirna Zabete, which, along with specialty lingerie shops like Agent Provocateur, is selling a lot of panties. The trend takes its cue from sports, especially surfing--hence the low-sitting bikini-cut look. After all, as Easley points out, "it's just more comfortable to play Frisbee in briefs than in a thong." --By Isabel C. Gonzalez
That the film generally succeeds is a testament to Eminem’s talents as a musician, provocateur and hip-hop thespian. Earlier this year, Britney Spears and Mariah Carey proved remarkably unconvincing in roles as aspiring singers; in comparison to his MTV peers, Eminem’s passable portrayal of a white rapper from Detroit qualifies him as a character actor...