Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...examine the phenomenon of hit television shows aimed primarily at female viewers. "These shows, whether or not they are smart or sophisticated, at least represent an effort to appeal to the rather large number of women who do not look as though they have been put together by a stylist," says Bellafante. The programs include the new hit series Providence, which has caught on despite mixed reviews and one of the worst time slots in prime-time television, and a trio of original programs on the Lifetime channel. Bellafante, who also edits our Short Takes section, says viewers should expect...
...HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH John Cameron Mitchell, who co-wrote this off-Broadway hit, also plays the "internationally ignored" song stylist who changed sexes to escape East Germany. Part nightclub monologue, part drag musical, the show has a score that outrocks Rent and a script that is by turns funny, outrageous and poignant...
...collections either for the first time or after a long break, and fashion's current chief recipient of slavish admiration, John Galliano, did a whole fur line. (Oddly though, he outfitted his models to look like prostitutes.) In the early '90s when fashion magazines did fur shoots, the stylists asked that their names not be used. This year, every fashion magazine worth its scent strips had fur photos in its October issue, and W even used its contributors' section to champion the stylist of its fur spread. Fur is out of storage...
These are not the sort of disclosures that usually stop presses. But what if the diarist was Anne Frank, the most storied victim of the Holocaust, the precocious prose stylist whose single published work has sold 25 million copies in more than 50 languages and has been required classroom reading for half a century...
Musical genres, like city streets, need names to make things navigable. Artists rage against categorization, but it's a useful tool to define the boundaries of a given phenomenon. Neo-soul is the best name to call the latest emerging genre. Simply defined, neo-soul describes artists--like song-stylist Erykah Badu--who combine a palpable respect for and understanding of the classic soul of the '60s and '70s with a healthy appetite for '90s sonic experimentation and boundary crossing. Neo-soul artists tend to create music that's a good deal more real, a good deal more edgy than...