Word: satine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crowd at the Grammy Awards last week looked as if it had just flown in from one of the moons of Saturn: glittering, snorting the intergalactic dust. Touches of the high crass mingled with a sort of metaphysical flash. Stevie Wonder, for example, wore a cumulously quilted white satin tuxedo whose upswept lapels formed great angel wings. The costume had the curious effect of making him look like a Puritan headstone...
...this guy," Laurie Anderson is saying, in a flat but mellifluous Midwestern voice, suggesting unexpected hospitality amid cold, wide-open spaces. "And he looked," she continues, "like he might have been a hat-check clerk at an ice rink." She is onstage, a post-punk dream clad in black satin, electric-pink socks the only splash of color. "Which, in fact, he turned out to be." Her hair is short, spiky, capping a high-cheekboned, all-American visage. An organ chord swells in the background. "And I said, 'Oh boy. Right again. Let x equal x.' " Behind...
...looseness of a mohair duster, the easy lines of a woman's blueserge bicycle suit, even a white wool polo coat from Brooks Brothers, all prefigure a less restrictive notion of sophistication. The summer whites of Newport are as dazzling to a contemporary eye as a violet satin costume brocaded in gold and silver, supposedly worn by Sarah Bernhardt...
...focus fixed on clothes. James' designs had spiritual roots in the Belle Epoque, but their bold architecture makes them look right up to the minute-or, in the case of some dresses on display, just ahead of it. In 1937 he designed a quilted evening jacket of white satin that he filled with eider down. Salvador Dali called it the first soft sculpture (Was Claes Oldenburg listening?), and James himself thought his design had inspired the U.S. military when they needed heavy-weather gear. Indeed, James frequently thought that he was being knocked off, especially by the vulgarians...
...Sesame Street Muppets and the music-hall camaraderie of The Muppet Show may not be ready to relinquish pleasure for awe as they enter The Dark Crystal's palatial cavern. And they may not be alone. Miss Piggy would take one look at the place and order pink satin drapes. -By Richard Corliss