Word: sunsets
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...into New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art with a vitality and dignity well beyond that of most exhibitions of clothing. All is ravishment: a child's coat made of silver fabric embroidered with gold thread; a woman's costume of veil, tunic and pajamas that plays with sunset shades of gold and violet. Fashion and society are the prevailing standards that squeeze museum costume shows tight, but "Costumes of Royal India" celebrates an ongoing tradition--of craft, of coloration, of symbolic dress and functional wear. Diana Vreeland, who in her years as a fashion doyen coined a neat...
...their nature, most museum costume shows are retrospectives, evocations of some bygone era or long-spent style. "Royal India" may be the longest shadow of the imperial sunset, but the techniques this show celebrates--like tie-dying, brocading, hand embroidering and intricate weaving--are still practiced. The exhibit, which opens to the public on Dec. 20, contains some 150 separate costumes, but as Indian Curator Martand Singh points out, "there is not a piece of textile here that is not produced today." The costumes come from 16 former royal families, and a few had to be returned for use during...
From the days of Prohibition, West Hollywood's famous Sunset Strip lay beyond the grasp of the Los Angeles police department, and it sheltered illicit casinos and speakeasy bars, patronized by gangsters and movie stars. During the '60s West Hollywood attracted hippies, druggies and rock-music clubs such as the Troubador and Whisky a GoGo. A decade later West Hollywood welcomed a migration of Russian Jews fleeing Soviet oppression and an influx of homosexuals weary of perceived harassment by the LAPD...
...taste. One of President Reagan's favorite restaurants, Chasen's, is a local landmark to snobbery. An inordinate number of other acclaimed eateries --Spago, Trumps, Morton's, Scandia, the Ivy--also flourish. So do a fistful of opulent hotels, including Le Bel Age (a classy favorite of businessmen), the Sunset Marquis (occasional host to Bruce Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper) and Le Mondrian (boasting a $1 million rainbow paint job, nightly jazz and some of the best panoramic views in town...
...Sails In The Sunset (Columbia Records) by Midnight Oil: Midnight Oil plays. Australian political power pop virtually neglected by American radio. Hence, few will understand references to Down Under phenoms like "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" and "Kosciusko." It doesn't matter, though. Doubling as a lawyer, lead singer Peter Garret shouts and screams about the problems of Australian land settlement and aboriginal rights to a beat so fierce it could have John Lydon running for cover. I'm no big fan of Australian music, but this album made me want to forsake Budweiser for Fosters...