Word: reis
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This is not just a window dresser's manual; we come away with wonderful wisdoms for living today's life rightly. Ultimately, this is a book of the lives of people who dare and try and do. From Barney Pressman to Rei Kawabuko (of Comme Des Garcons) to his own grandmother, Doonan barrels through a life of extraordinary somebodies, from whom he rubs off a heady, giddy, and invincible euphoria which is both playfully irreverent as well as healthily capitalistic...
...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...