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...Every designer has to look somewhere for inspiration, and this season the sources of ideas are as varied as the designers themselves. Michael Kors showed a sleek collection of slightly 1980s-style stretchy bodysuits and slick, oversize jackets and sweaters. The layering theme he tackled paid homage to dancers, specifically the Broadway kind and the appropriate soundtrack mixed in music from A Chorus Line.On a completely different track, Peter Som looked to the 18th-century French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau for a beautiful color palette of watery blues and grays. Som's opening number, a dove gray jacquard coat...
...very typical of Harvard: each student is assigned half a dozen advisors in the hope that one of them will actually be helpful. Officially, David Morin and Howard Georgi, both physicists, advise all concentrators. Each student is also assigned an individual advisor from the Physics department. Notice a theme here? The concentration has been more or less commandeered by the Physics department. (Further evidence: the only classes that absolutely cannot be taken Pass/Fail are the introductory physics classes. However, any chemistry class is OK.) Morin and Georgi teach Physics 15a, “Introductory Mechanics and Relativity...
...matter and syllabi. Students might question the ties that bind classes like C-20, “The Hero of Irish Myth and Saga” and C-51, “Revolution and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde.” A common theme seems to be the study of how a specific kind of art worked in a specific historical epic, how it was influenced by current events and how it influenced them in turn. The keyword is “specific;” most classes cover one type...
Women designing for women was a strong theme on day five of New York Fashion Week. Designers including Monique L'Huillier, Georgina Chapman and runway newcomer Karen Craig of Marchesa trained their eyes on the celebs who wear their clothes (and sit front row at their shows), such as Sarah Michelle Geller and Mischa Barton, with lots of light airy goddess dresses. Or, in the case of Marchesa, several short puff ball dresses in cotton candy colors...
...determination is the underlying theme of all successful fashion shows these days. Watching DVF's show, I was reminded of a conversation with her over ten years ago at lunch. Curled up at a corner table at Cipriani, Von Furstenberg recounted the trials and humiliations of having sold her name in many licensing deals and trying to buy it back or close out the licensing agreements. It was 1993 and she had just moved back to New York from Paris where she had lived for a few years, not working in fashion. Now she was hoping to rebuild her business...