Word: womanities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...design team is quite different. In one room 15 young designers toil away at Macs. Their technical know-how stands in direct contrast to a woman who hand-paints jungle-like flowers for a Ferragamo scarf and a man nearby who loosely sketches polo players for Ralph Lauren. Nearby are the famous archives, stored in an enormous hangar. The archives are organized by style and designer, and walking through the aisles is a heady experience of color fantasy and craftsmanship, a sort of fashion-world memory lane...
...show. Sanby Lee ’08, the creative director of His/Hers, explored the relation of androgyny to clothing. Female models strutted down the runway in black suits and white collared shirts. At one point, a couple stopped at the end of the runway and exchanged accessories. The woman slipped the tie over her head while her male companion untied her strappy stilettos and slung them over his shoulder. “It’s more than showcasing clothes,” said Tran. “Identities is making a statement on a larger scale and bridging concepts...
...rain falling outside of the pancake house in “Awaiting Orders” is literally cathartic—these military stories are spectacular because they access the consequences of military involvement through personal relationships. War becomes diffused through a soldier’s attraction to a woman, a father remembering his son’s face. This familiarity is what makes “Our Story Begins” such a delight. Wolff pares his stories down to the core of fiction. He understands that even the most charged issues must be rendered not on a soapbox...
...manner of dealing with the world around them is genuine, beautiful, and adorable—and seems more mature than the coping strategies used by the adults around them. The film relies on scenes of daily life—a man filling his car at a gas station, a woman crossing the street holding a baby, a sweeping view of the town—to create a superficial sense of security. The exterior goings-on of this “Pleasantville”-esque neighborhood renders its interior discord shocking. “Snow Angels,” while successful...
...that doesn’t fit neatly the prototype of the Indian-American widower: “It did not prove to Ruma that her father had loved her mother, or even that he missed her. And yet he had put it there, honored her before turning to another woman.”This theme of learning to live, love and lose transnationally—introduced in the work’s opening story—crystallizes in the closing trio of linked stories, which together from a sort of experimental novella. In alternating first-person narration, we?...