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...time for the Paris couture shows again--a riveting glimpse at clothes few can afford and fewer still would wear. Christian Lacroix said he was "inspired by ethnicity and beautiful things from all over," but neglected to mention in which country one would feel comfortable wearing the above ensemble. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons dispensed entirely with the notion of figure enhancement and inserted padding, above, that only a Quasimodel could love. The designer said her aim was to "create clothes without any reference to anything existing." She's right on target. Meanwhile the big couture houses seem...
What is the sound of one Head talking? Check out David Byrne. Since leaving Talking Heads, the brainiest rock band of the '80s, to go solo, Byrne has found his muse in the unexpected: an album of Latin salsa (1989's Rei Momo) and a mystical orchestral soundscape (last year's The Forest). Now Byrne has transplanted his rock roots into fertile tropical soil. In UH-OH (Luaka Bop), / released last week, jangling electric-guitar riffs alternate with piquant Caribbean rhythms, often in the same song, while Byrne aims his quirky intelligence at sex-change operations, domestic discord and even...
...Rei Terada only received her Ph.D. from Boston University last year. But Terada, who is in the middle of a one-year appointment as lecturer in Afro-Am, has earned the respect of her Harvard colleagues and students with both her scholarship and her teaching skills...
Byrne, the lead singer of the Talking Heads, said his dissatisfaction with the disco music of the 1970s led him to the investigation of "tropicalismo" that culminated in Rei Momo, his new solo album and the compilation albums Beleza Tropical and O Samba...
...fact, when Byrne first started composing for Rei Momo, he would bring music he recorded on his fourtrack to Milton Cardona, a Puerto Rican musician living in New York...