tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78606218483812393142024-02-19T04:09:16.764-08:00pavement fripperyAnusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.comBlogger597125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-66970390250357601592016-01-29T06:09:00.003-08:002016-08-24T08:01:59.069-07:00Red Carpet Review: Zoolander 2 Sydney PremiereI am suffering severe withdrawal symptoms following the closure of the incomparable <a href="http://www.redcarpet-fashionawards.com/2015/12/31/thank-you-and-goodbye/">Red Carpet Fashion Awards</a> (why, Catherine, why??). Now subsisting on inferior red carpet assessments from the likes of the <i>Daily Mail</i> (I know, <i>I know</i>), I have attempted my first effort at doing one myself. This is a healing process.<br />
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Actress and former model April Rose Pengilly wore Maurie & Eve's Angelika dress. As a rule, I don't love black for the red carpet - it's a safe option but it's harder to see the details and fabric of a black garment in photographs. Miss Pengilly (and, indeed, this whole event in general) gets points from me for wearing a local label - I loath it when Australian celebrities wear foreign designers on local red carpets. The dress is a marvelously flattering (if not very daring) choice, with styling (Jimmy Choo Lang heels and a Chanel purse) to match. Given that Australian fashion has an international reputation for being sexy and body conscious, this dress was a fine choice for the occasion.<br />
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Normally a Bec & Bridge devotee, <i>The Bachelor </i>winner (or<i> The Bachelor </i>prize?) Anna Heinrich wore Manning Cartel's Edition jumpsuit. I adore the label, but I just can't get on board with this one. I don't think that even Montana Cox pulled it off - and you know that's not a good sign:<br />
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As someone who is more than ready to welcome the resurgence of flared trousers (or, honestly, any alternative to the super skinny jean), I feel a little let down by this jumpsuit. I think the main problem is that the thigh area is a shade too tight, and the waist seam is sitting in that no man's land between true-waist and hip. Also, I can't stand the shoe styling in any of the above pics of the jumpsuit. This is one of the few instances in which a front platform is not only preferable, but a necessity. I would suggest this Charlotte Olympia kinda thing:</div>
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TV Presenter/ Model/ Blogger Nikki Phillips' Ginger and Smart dress looks interesting (and an unusual departure from the label's trademark badass prints) but it doesn't seem to have photographed particularly well. I am very much over those Aquazzura heels.<br />
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"Model and book enthusiast" Georgia Mae Gibbs wore a Bec & Bridge top and Misha Collection trousers.<br />
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The vibe is a little Real Housewives for my taste but there's no denying that the girl looks good. I think something like Lover's Halo Crop Shirt would have made for a more youthful look:<br />
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Nicholas' Iris top would have provided a nice kick of colour too.<br />
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Yes, black is not my favourite, but I do love me some flocked velvet. Lukich's overall look is very pretty but the bra feels a bit messy - it would have been better if the keyhole was uninterrupted.<br />
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Miss Universe Australia 2014 Tegan Martin, wore a Kookai jumpsuit in a lovey shade of orange:<br />
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A photo posted by Alyssa McClelland (@alyssa_mcclelland) on <time datetime="2016-01-26T10:38:04+00:00" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Jan 26, 2016 at 2:38am PST</time></div>
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While I may not love the particulars of actress and director Alyssa McClelland's outfit (I wish the top was a structured, non-stretch fabric, and the trouser print looks a bit twee), I must applaud anyone who wears "head-to-toe Ken Done". The colours are great, obvs.<br />
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I don't consider blatant rip-offery to be a particularly nobel pursuit. And, let's be clear, the Shona Joy dress, worn here by former Miss World Australia/Oceania Erin Holland, is a blatant rip-off of this Rosie Assoulin number:<br />
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Model Lily Aldridge wore the original:</div>
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As did heiress of HMD fame, Nell Diamond:</div>
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That said, there is something about Shona Joy's version of Assoulin's design that I appreciate. The knock-off dress worn by Holland represents a perfect example of the dilution of a fairly austere, high fashion design into something more widely palatable. The short skirt length and Holland's black accessories rob the original design of its ethereal quality. But Assoulin's uncompromising design is, without a doubt, more challenging than Shona Joy's iteration. There's room in fashion for both, no?</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Around 2012 when the fashion world started going nuts for the Russians, I wasnât particularly interested. Sure, they were gorgeous - a coterie of creatively garbed street-style stars, who tended to be married to, or sprung from the loins of, erstwhile KGB operatives who had since found themselves on the right side of Russiaâs new oligarchies. For whatever reason, I never felt any particular connection to the clothes worn by Elena Perminova, Miroslava Duma and Dasha Zhukova. The latter two I developed an outright aversion to after various transgressions (Duma's </span><a href="http://www.themigrantbookclub.com/2012/09/mira-duma-on-pussy-riot-these-stupid.html" style="text-align: start;">here</a><span style="text-align: start;">, Zhukova's </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/dasha-zhukova-black-woman-mannequin-chair-sparks-racism-row-9074915.html" style="text-align: start;">here</a><span style="text-align: start;">). In terms of style, I only ever really had time for the fashion designer Ulyana Sergeenko, whose theatricality, poise (or is it posture?) and New Look skirts I couldnât help but fall for.</span><br />
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And often it was her own designs that Sergeenko sported while posing coquettishly for a throng of photographers, ostensibly waiting for the next Paris Fashion Week show to begin. The clothes were highly romantic and dramatic, and it was only Sergeenkoâs bearing that prevented her from looking absurd. I continue to be awed by this bustle moment of hers:</div>
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<span class="s1">âDoes the collection at times lack finesse? Sure. And is it presumptuous for Sergeenko, who is untrained, to present on the same schedule as masters like Lagerfeld and Lacroix? Well, yes.â [This burn is interesting if you recall Azzedine AlaĂŻaâs assertion that, âKarl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.â A moot point where Sergeenko is concerned, I guess, because, scissors or no, Karl Lagerfeld she ainât.]</span></div>
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a.rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06309552744400257861noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-37111797675988693522015-04-29T05:36:00.001-07:002015-05-02T05:46:54.840-07:00On OpalsIt is my firmly held belief that no Opal has ever been tastefully set. Not one. It just hasn't happened. And I have spent a great deal of time searching for evidence to the contrary. A friend claims to have once come across a beautiful Opal ring in a vintage store, but by the law of Photos Or It Didn't Happen, her evidence is sadly inadmissible.<br />
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Anyway, this tweet from The Cut recently sent my Opal fiending into overdrive - and it's no coincidence that the Lightning Ridge Opal pictured is a loose stone.<br />
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Before I continue, apologies to anyone who knows anything about gems or jewellery - what follow are but the musings of an ignoramus... but I wonder if my general aversion to Opal jewellery (as opposed to just the stones themselves, which I adore) is in part due to the fact that Opals seem always to be cut either in a cabochon shape or otherwise are left looking a little rough. The former style has certainly not been in fashion for some time but I think we're due for a comeback - indeed, for me cabochon-cut gems invariably evoke memories of trips to Terrific Scientific (Sydney kids come geddit) and the subsequent purchasing of mood rings. If that ain't primo 90s revival juice, I don't know what is.<br />
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But then there are also the unfortunate associations with Australian souvenir tackery. The horror of the gem-bellied silver koala pendant and its cousin, the dolphin charm bracelet has done much to tarnish the Opal's reputation. And yet I must admit that there are some forms of Australiana, specifically the type that depicts native flora and fauna, that I find tremendously appealing. Take for example the botanical illustrations of Ferdinand Bauer:<br />
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I once attempted to create <a href="http://pavement-frippery.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/young-free-for-1-glue.html">a fabric print</a> using his illustrations, and would love to see the idea executed by a more skilled hand.</div>
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Then of course there's the often brilliant work of Romance Was Born. Though I found their earlier use of May Gibbs' heavenly <i>Snuggle Pot and Cuddle Pie</i> illustrations a little too literal, their latest collection, "Cooee Couture" is exhilarating and beautiful.<br />
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Let's start with Gianfranco Ferré for Christian Dior:<br />
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Why, hello sports luxe, I thought I hated you, but you're look mighty fine right here. What an incredibly cool collection for a fashion house so wrapped up in its own traditions. P.S. Could these designs have been the inspiration for Mona May's iconic tennis court costumes in <i>Clueless</i> (1995)?</div>
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And here's Christian Lacroix</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I find Gaultier's collection so beautiful but at the same time have to work hard not to think of the objectionable adjectives that would doubtless be used to describe it - ethnic, tribal, gypsy, exotic... ew.</span></div>
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On a happier note, did you spot Bjork?</div>
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I adore the short scene featuring Sonia Rykiel's Autumn/Winter 1994 collection:</div>
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When did models stop walking like that? I know everyone goes on about Linda Evangelista's "$10,000 to get out of bed" line, but boy do these women earn every cent. See also the fictional Cort Romney's (played by the heavenly Richard E. Grant) collection, which actually featured Vivienne Westwood's designs:</div>
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Westwood's real-life show was similarly theatrical - and it was Carla Bruni who modelled that fur g-string:<br />
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And Kate Moss got her boobs out.</div>
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In a very different vein is Xuly Bet's collection for the fictional designer Cy Bianco (played exquisitely by Forest Whitaker. SPOILER AHEAD...: Cy Bianco and Cort Romney make out. Heaven):</div>
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There aren't enough dust-ups on catwalks these days.</div>
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Finally, on non-fashion note, <i>PrĂȘt-Ă -Porter </i>contains Julia Roberts' finest performance in any film ever:</div>
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a.rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06309552744400257861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-12822850147194729132013-10-29T05:28:00.003-07:002021-09-07T09:08:25.966-07:00hands awayThere is a scene in <i>All About Eve</i> in which Anne Baxter, playing the title role, demands that Addison DeWitt (played by George Sanders) leave her presence.<br />
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She sharply pulls open the door to the room and snaps, "Get out!" In <i>that</i> voice, Sanders' DeWitt replies, "You're too short for that gesture." OMG. Best movie burn ever.<br />
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On a semi-related note, I have recently become aware that my brain contains a (unintentionally compiled) list of Favourite Gestures in Film. Here they are.<br />
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Elaine Miller (played by Frances McDormand) in <i>Almost Famous</i>, pointing to Simon & Garfunkel's pupils as they appear on the cover of their album <i>Bookends</i> - "Honey, they're on pot."<br />
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Another one from <i>Almost Famous</i>; Penny Lane's elegant bird flipping</div>
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In <i>Marie Antoinette </i>Kirsten Dunst glides her hand outside the window of the carriage taking her home after a night of masked partying:<br />
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The gesture feels slightly anachronistic, perhaps because I've seen Dunst pull a similar move in Sofia Coppola's earlier film, <i>The Virgin Suicides</i>:</div>
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<i>Donnie Darko </i>is a film I used to love but now seldom think of. One of the few things that has stayed with me is the strangely poignant and funny exchange of waves with which the film ends:</div>
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With the exceptions of <i>Shadow of a Doubt</i> and <i>Rebecca</i>, I don't tend to like Alfred Hitchock's heavier psychodramas<i>. </i>And perhaps those two don't fit into the category - I certainly don't find them as draining as <i>Vertigo </i>and, say, <i>Marnie</i>. There is, however, one little bit in <i>Vertigo </i>that I can't get enough of. </div>
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Scottie and Madeleine visit a Californian Redwood forest and look at a displayed cross-section of one of those ancient trees, the rings of which have been labeled with various corresponding events in human history (anthropo-dendrochronology?):</div>
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To be very clear, I totally don't get this movie. In fact until re-watching the clip for this post, I wrongheadedly thought that Madeleine pointed first to a larger ring, and then a smaller one, to indicate some mysterious birth/death reversal.</div>
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All I know is that there's something excellent about the way Kim Novak's gloved hand gently points... </div>
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Just for kicks I'll sometimes reenact the gesture and accompanying lines when faced with a particularly difficult crossword - <i style="text-align: center;">Here I was born... and there I died.</i></div>
Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-43157519229028423582013-09-09T09:00:00.000-07:002014-03-17T00:32:08.863-07:00Bruce Woods Designs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bruce Woods is a Chicago-based knitwear designer. These are some of his beautiful creations:<br />
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Bruce hand-makes all these one-off pieces himself and you can buy them on his <a href="http://bwdesigns.net/" target="_blank">new website</a>.<br />
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My mother introduced me to Bruce when I was about 15. She, my friend Katherine and I were on holiday in the US and visited him in his Chicago apartment. I remember marvelling at both his (extreme) height and (excellent) style. He also cooked us all an amazing breakfast.<br />
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In fact my mother and Bruce have been friends since the mid-1970s, during which time they were flatmates in New York's East Village. Here is a photo of them both at my mother's wedding to her first husband (hint: it was a Green Card marriage. Quel Scandale!):<br />
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She is the one in the middle wearing the red shawl and a look of consternation (pangs of guilt, mother dearest?) and he is on the right, wearing a red beanie.<br />
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Undoubtedly the greatest thing about this photo is that the man standing behind Bruce is not a priest.<br />
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<i>Originally posted June 7 2012</i>Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-32154331595647950682013-05-30T05:15:00.002-07:002013-06-02T00:05:58.275-07:00World's #1 Daughter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
From Brisbane's Paddington Antique Centre (aka. heaven), here are a pair of antique Czech glass kaleidoscope glasses I bought for my mama:</div>
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I'm all about Czech glass at the moment, to the point where I think I might spend my life savings on <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/124392124/rare-czech-german-atique-sample-book-581?ref=sr_gallery_7&ga_search_query=glass+buttons&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=AU&ga_order=price_desc&ga_page=0&ga_search_type=vintage&ga_facet=vintageglass+buttons" target="_blank">this</a> BOOK OF BUTTONS: </div>
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Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-51111560145661912432013-05-03T08:26:00.000-07:002015-11-18T16:11:45.381-08:00HiddenFrom <i>The Complete Gone With the Wind Trivia Book</i> By Pauline Bartel, here's a nice fact for your brains:<br />
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<i>Selznick insisted on complete authenticity in the costumes.
For instance, he directed Walter Plunkett to use expensive lace to make
petticoats for the ladies. Ann Rutherford, playing Scarlettâs sister Carreen,
voiced her opinion that the cost was extravagant especially since the audience would
not know the lace was there. âBut youâll know itâs there,â was Selznickâs
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In the spirit of "but you'll know" I've rounded up the following delightful tidbits. And here's to you, Selznick, ya mean old bastard.</div>
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<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/100019243" target="_blank">Hinged Cuff Bracelet, ca. 1479â1425 B.C., Egypt</a></div>
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According to the Met Museum the inner inscriptions of cartouches and epithets of Thutmose III suggest that the cuffs were a gift of the king.</div>
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Ok, a strong breeze might mean that They'll Know, too, but I'll be damned if I can resist a good contrasting lining.</div>
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<a href="http://eragem.com/chaumet-paris-diamond-inside-wedding-band-ring-solid-18k-gold.html" target="_blank">Chaumet concealed diamond wedding band</a></div>
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I've seen variations on the "diamonds on the inside" ring. The simplicity of the outer design here makes this one my favourites. Sah clevah. </div>
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And finally, did you know that in their early days, the Ksubi (then Tsubi) boys inscribed their jeans with original poems? I haven't been able to find any images so I guess I'll just post their 2011 Kolors video (again):</div>
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Now that's poetry.</div>
Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-87215476321321452462013-04-04T02:45:00.001-07:002013-04-04T02:45:08.507-07:00order for the garterIt seems like a weird oversight that a resurgence of sleeve garters hasn't accompanied that of collar tips (which, I'll have it noted for the record, I picked up on ages <a href="http://pavement-frippery.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/triangulation-sensation.html" target="_blank">before the trend happened</a>. Dick yeah!) and the massive shirt trend in general. Here's Robert Redford wearing some in <i>The Sting</i> (made in 1973 but set during the 1930s):<br />
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Be warned - the sleeve garter is not without its detractors. Writing in the Perth <i>Sunday Times </i>on May 26, 1940, the writer Richard Hughes (using the pen name "Dr Watson"), made particular mention of this unusual accessory. Regarding the victims of "Australia's Last Bushrangers," Patrick and James Kenniff, Hughes wrote:<br />
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Wait, maybe that <i>is</i> an endorsement for sleeve garters? I'm also not sure if he's being tongue-in-cheek about the soap thing, but I suspect he was a nothing-in-cheek kinda guy.</div>
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And while we're on it, how grand is this ad for calculators from the November 6, 1952 edition of the Brisbane <i>Courier-Mail</i>?</div>
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Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-23765592185106035972013-02-28T05:26:00.001-08:002013-02-28T05:28:27.849-08:00Young + Free for 1% GlueDear friends, I recently entered the 1% Glue Fashion Design competition, and would actually die of heaven if you could go to this website:<br />
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and "like" (you need a facebook account, which is a bit blergh) my collection, Young + Free by Anusha Rutnam. <br />
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Here is my collection, oh lordy I hope you like it.<br />
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The best thing about the show was how dramatically varied the different collections were. For example one minute this gorgeously subtle dress by Emma Noord came down the runway. (Dove grey and daffodil yellow? That's a dream combo, right there.) -<br />
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Nek minnit you've got Cassilda Parkinson's heavenly creatures gracing the catwalk:</div>
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There was a definite other-worldly vibe in the room when, during rehearsals, Parkinson's models sauntered past backstage. It was like being present as an emissary of wood nymphs had entered the room. I'm pretty sure I heard the distant tinkling of wind chimes and smelled orange blossom on a mysterious breeze.</div>
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Ahem, going on... Anna Priestly's collection was another stand out, with a fantastic Saint Augustine Academy vibe:</div>
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And speaking of cool, I give huge props to Rosanna De Couvreur for her fearless swimwear collection:</div>
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Everything about it was just shockingly good. I can't get enough of the Magritte bathers. Here is a woman who understands that high fashion is <a href="http://pavement-frippery.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/settle-petal.html" target="_blank">all about the bush</a>.</div>
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It's all about the hair. Which is particularly impressive given that just weeks ago Stam was shooting off some pretty unacceptable Carol Brady vibes:</div>
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The Prada moment sent me into full-on "this looks like this" mode (which, as a fashion blogger, is totally my wont). The first example to come to mind was Taina Elg in George Cukor's 1957 film <i>Les Girls</i>:</div>
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Next up is the incomparable Leslie Caron as she appeared in <i>The Glass Slipper </i>(1955):</div>
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It is with Stam, Elg and Caron in mind that I issue this decree; Forthwith, off-the-shoulder garments may only be worn by women with pixie haircuts. Furthermore, women with pixie haircuts may only wear off-the shoulder-garments. So let it be written, so it shall be done.</div>
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It seems as if for one of their Spring 2013 Haute Couture looks, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli went into the archives - just not the Valentino ones.</div>
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I actually really like the Valentino ensemble and wish there had been more like it in the collection. I mean, everyone knows that Chiuri and Piccioli can do embroidered/ lacey/ beaded florals with a blindfold on - a little austerity would be pretty cool in what is shaping up to be a <i>very</i> romantic Haute Couture season.Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-14225843631430906812013-01-24T04:57:00.003-08:002013-01-24T04:57:49.025-08:00Regarding flowers and treesFrom Tim Blanks' <a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2013CTR-CHANEL" target="_blank">review</a> of the Chanel Spring 2013 Haute Couture collection:<br />
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<i>Karl Lagerfeld can't move mountains just yet. Today, he had to settle for a mere forest, shipped into the Grand Palais tree by tree. His guests wandered through the woods till they happened upon a classical amphitheater. "Neo-classical," Karl clarified. He was dreaming of Weimar, sylvan hub of German Romanticism in the late eighteenth century, home to Goethe and Schiller.</i></div>
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Moved some trees? He's in good company. The film director F.W. Murnau (of the <i>other</i> Weimar) also had a predilection for freighting foliage. From Bronwyn Cosgrave's <i>Made For Each Other: Fashion and the Academy Awards:</i></div>
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<i>Murnau was an uncompromising perfectionist. For one scene in </i>Sunrise<i>, he insisted a species of deciduous tree be transported hundreds of miles from Lake Arrowhead to the Fox Hollywood lot, where three hundred Mexican laborers glued new leaves to its withered branches. Once erected on set, it so displeased Murnau, he insisted more new foliage be manually applied while swarms of salaried extras hung about waiting for their cue. </i></div>
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Seriously though, the Haute Couture collections are so aggressively flora-oriented this year. For me a lot of it borders on being saccharine and I'm not sure that I love it. What I <i>do</i> love is the return of gentle bubble and tulip hems.<br />
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Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-81118179000197103392013-01-17T05:37:00.002-08:002013-01-21T15:53:31.127-08:00Pinhead ideaIn the latest edition of me predicting a trend that will never (ever) come to fruition, allow me to present the pinball machine:<br />
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Bearing in mind that we just can't seem to quit graphic fabric prints and particularly symmetrical ones, I was actually a little surprised to realise that the idea hasn't been done by some Black Milk-esque label.<br />
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So I set about finding the perfect pinball image, a "classic" pinball machine design. Post web-trawl, however, I'm now not certain that such a thing exists. What's striking is how incredibly varied pinball design seems to be. If there is some essential, classic design, I haven't been able to find it - and I love the idea of a thing with no true face, like a writer who has only ever created parodies.<br />
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I suspect that a lot of the vague pinball imagery floating around my brain is based on machines from the 1970s, a time when nostalgia for the 1950s (<i>Grease</i>-style) was rife. Interesting, but as inspiration for a fashion print, also kinda messy.<br />
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In terms of a fabric print that would appropriate the pinball machine aesthetic it might be difficult to create a look that was distinct from the comic book stylings of, say, Romance Was Born's Spring/Summer 2013 collection.<br />
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Another already familiar motif evident in the visual world of the pinball machine is the 1950s pinup girl:<br />
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Again, all very interesting, but not very original so far as fashion is concerned.<br />
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So is there anything at all worthwhile to be taken from the idea of a pinball print? If there is I think it has to come from a very literal representation of recognisable features of a pinball machine, e.g. bumpers, wire ramps and, most importantly, flippers:<br />
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<i>Lost In Translation</i> is my least favourite Sofia Coppola film, but a thought just occurred to me, and - zero overstatement ahead - it changes<i> everything.</i><br />
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Said thought concerns the hotel lobby exchange between Charlotte, her husband John, and Kelly the starlet. Coppola denies it, but it definitely feels like John and Kelly were based on the director's ex-husband, Spike Jonze and his erstwhile leading lady, Cameron Diaz, respectively. That would make Sofia, Charlotte, geddit? That was an aside though. What matters is this:<br />
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<i><b>Kelly</b>: But listen, let's all go out for a drink sometimes. Yeah? </i></div>
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<i><b>John</b>: Yeah, yeah. </i></div>
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<i><b>Kelly</b>: You know, call me, okay? </i></div>
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<i><b>John</b>: Yeah, okay. </i></div>
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<i><b>Kelly</b>: Alright. Listen, I'm under Evelyn Waugh. Shh, okay? </i></div>
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<i><b>Charlotte</b>: [after Kelly leaves] Evelyn Waugh? Evelyn Waugh was a man. </i></div>
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<i><b>John</b>: Oh, come on, she's nice. What? You know, not everybody went to Yale. It's just a pseudonym, for Christ's sake.</i></div>
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Fasten your seatbelts folks, here's my (decade in-the-making) revelation: Evelyn Waugh's first wife <i>was also called Evelyn.</i> As in, <i>her name was also Evelyn Waugh</i>. <i>Does my excessive use of italics impress upon you the immense importance of this realisation?</i><br />
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What does it all mean!? Is Charlotte not only a snob but a dumb snob too? What does that make Sofia?Is Coppola making a wider statement about the lack of recognition comedic actresses in Hollywood receive? That the kind of comic precision seen in the performances of Anna Faris, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Anna Kendrick and their ilk, performances that often result in box office succes but seldom attract critical praise (nor, indeed, attention), reveals a certain genius?<br />
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Probably not, ay. Well goddamnit, I didn't get pummeled for five years by the NSW Board of Studies English Syllabus just to NOT project my own views and feelings onto any given "text" I encounter.Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-44814474554116447402012-12-26T03:08:00.003-08:002016-10-25T00:55:45.027-07:00gone dottyUgh I have descended into one of the least fulfilling internet research holes of my life. Does ANYONE know the name of these beadie doo-dads?:<br />
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You've seen this stuff before, right? As far as I can tell the technique has been confined to purses and bags, though why this might be the case is a mystery to me. I would buy the shit out of a t-shirt covered in the things.</div>
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<li>They are not technically beads as they don't have a hole. Rather they appear to be fused on to the fabric, most likely using a heat transfer, I reckon. Don't bother googling that though, lest you be sucked into the Hama Bead universe - as if Hama Beads haven't already claimed enough hours of my life.</li>
<li>The earliest examples of the technique that I have been able to find are from the 1940s</li>
<li>A brand called Lumared seems to have specialised in the stuff, along with a Hong Kong label called JEM. They are sometime referred to as corde or cordo beads.</li>
<li>Finally, and most mystifyingly, the style seems to have struck it big in the land of milk and honey</li>
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Seriously, there are, like, a thousand of these for sale on Etsy. I would get one if I didn't think it would look like an invitation for arguments about the Middle East.Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-2425724726985176522012-12-05T04:51:00.000-08:002012-12-29T17:14:33.281-08:00VictoriasWhat follows is my third blog post discussing Queen Victoria in as many months. I'm not sure how to explain that, but damnit, I'm not ashamed. It will also be my second Victoria's Secret post of recent times. I've got a bit of shame for that one.<br />
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In her book of collected essays, <i>The Water Beetle</i> (1962), Nancy Mitford describes an incident involving Empress <span style="text-align: right;">Eugénie of France and Queen Victoria, </span>that took place during the mid-19th century:<br />
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There was a moment during the Victoria's Secret show in which Rihanna starting doing a strange - but definitely sexy - backwards-walk across the catwalk. Need I say it, dear readers? Girl did <u>not</u> look back.<br />
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A bit perfectly, that's Karlie Kloss in the background, doing her famous panther-strut down the runway. Karlie also attempted a Victoria's Secret-y smile. It wasn't... wonderful.<br />
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But who cares, right? Because, look, there's Rihanna.<br />
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This was all part of the What-If-Georgia-O'Keeffe-Was-A-Deranged-Sex-Robot section of the show. No words will convey the essence of this bonkers yonic bonanza better than this photo does:<br />
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Also bewildering but in more of a, "What the actual fuck" kinda way, was the presentation of the Pink collection, a line designed for teens and college girls. In an interesting marketing decision, Victoria's Secret seem to have decided to also use Pink to chase consumers from the rather smaller Filthy Old-Man Pedophile demographic.<br />
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I am currently reading the book <i>Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response</i>. It is a non-fiction account of how an American woman had child pornography charges brought against her after taking photographs of her 8-year old daughter naked in the bathtub. With great thoughtfulness the author, Lynn Powell, explains how in reality the photos, and the manner in which they were taken, were totally innocent. This did not save the mother from prosecution and arrest.<br />
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Ew. Let's get back to everyday-bewildering. Here is a woman dressed as some kind of sex-leopard.<br />
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That's ok! Sex-leopards I can deal with - <i>but why is the sex-leopard holding a dog?</i><br />
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I guess it would be smarter to accept that the VSFS is really just a big ol' shroom fest, and I should really stop thinking and just start <i>experiencing</i>, man. I was definitely getting some high-times vibes from Very Pretty Woman, Doutzen Kroes:<br />
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I also sometimes got the feeling that Doutzen was as puzzled by the proceedings as me. During interviews she often tended towards the Ron Swanson school of speech-giving:<br />
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<i>"I refuse to lather Marlene up and kiss her ring like everybody else. Instead, I'll be delivering a speech of facts. Marlene is a woman. She has worked in the government for three decades. Thirty years. Properly applied, that's how long a good varnish should last. So Marlene, it is true that you have won this award."</i></div>
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In the same spirit let me conclude: The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show - It certainly happened.</div>
Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-82327266853252979352012-12-05T03:25:00.002-08:002012-12-05T03:25:27.704-08:00Sumatra steez<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Seriously though, how much is too much to spend on a Sumatran bridal headdress? I went to Indonesia earlier in the year, and let me tell you, their headdress game is just insanely amazing.<span id="goog_794435939"></span><br />
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West Sumatran bride, photo by <a href="http://www.ipernity.com/doc/tigerlily5141/home?with=10497452" target="_blank">Diana Australis</a></div>
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Minangkabau Bridal Headdress from the <a href="http://www.mylearning.org/minangkabau-bridal-headdress/p-4216/" target="_blank">Yorkshire World Collections</a></div>
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And by the way, do you look at these Indonesian headdresses and find yourself reminded of a Russian kokoshnik? Because me too!</div>
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Anna Pavlova, photographer unknown</div>
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Wow, humans, right? Truly, we are all made of stars.</div>
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Here is an article I wrote that was published not long ago in <a href="http://seizureonline.com/" target="_blank">Seizure magazine.</a> Hope y'all like it.</div>
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The Lovely Ugliness of Fashion By Anusha Rutnam </div>
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<i>A woman pays a visit to the shop of a famous milliner and asks him to create for her a one-of-a-kind hat, something unlike anything her contemporaries would have seen before. The hat- maker pulls from a drawer a length of red ribbon. Before the woman's eyes he begins to weave, knot and tease this single piece of red ribbon into a most splendid creation, a hat of perfect loveliness. </i></div>
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<i>The woman exclaims at the beauty and ingenuity of the hat, gleeful that it will soon be hers. </i></div>
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<i>'How much do I owe you?' she asks. </i></div>
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<i>'$10,000' the master milliner replies evenly. </i></div>
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<i>The lady gasps, 'What? But it's just a piece of ribbon!' </i></div>
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<i>The milliner gently unweaves, unknots and pulls at the hat in his hands until only the piece of ribbon remains. </i></div>
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<i>'The ribbon,' he tells her, 'you can have for nothing.'</i></div>
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There is a scene in Alfred Hitchcockâs <i>Rebecca</i> in which the
housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, tortures her new mistress, the second Mrs de Winter,
with a guided tour of the wardrobe belonging to her late predecessor. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Softly handling a lace negligĂ©e Mrs Danvers asks, âDid you
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<i>Still from </i>Rebecca<i> (1940), Directed by Alfred Hitchcock</i></div>
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And we die a little for the tweedy second wife of the household because it is a most exquisite thing, made, Mrs Danvers helpfully points out, ââŠespecially for her by the nuns in the Convent of St Clare.â<o:p></o:p></div>
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What piece of clothing could be more loaded with meaning
than that negligée? Made by women who will never touch a man, once worn by a
beautiful woman, now deceased, and virtually embalmed by her most faithful
servant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think of Rebeccaâs negligĂ©e as I stand, utterly over-
whelmed, in Jakartaâs grossly oversized Tanah Abang Blok A Market. There are
more bras in this market than there are breasts in the world. They are stuffed
in clear, thick plastic sacks, the sacks stacked high. One gets the impression
of standing in front of end- less walls of bulging cartoon eyes. And they are
cheap, bought by the kilo and in slabs by Indonesians who will later sell them
one by one to other Indonesians. I hadnât seen another tourist for miles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bandeaus and balconettes, semis and demis, long- line and
soft-cup, padded and pushy, all the usual suspects are here. In fact, except
for the occasional Calvin Klong, itâs the same stuff sold in the department
stores at home. And yet I am revolted. It is difficult to pinpoint why these
individually inoffensive bras inspire such distaste. One almost feels sorry for
them. I have long suspected that few objects have so tumultuous a lot in life
as the fashionable garment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even without confronting the unpleasant realities of mass
production in the clothing industry one can see that clothes have an uncanny
ability to traverse the space between the lovely and the hideous. Most commonly
it is a slow journey, the trudge of a style of garment that is designed, bought
and worn by the Right People, subsequently favoured by a lot of people and
ultimately adopted by the Wrong People.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1937 the historian James Laver attempted to track this
process, breaking down the life cycle of a fashionable style of clothing into a
neat timeline. The current fashion, he suggested, is perceived as smart but ten
years ago it would have been called indecent. In one year it will be dowdy, in
ten, hideous and in fifty years it will be considered quaint. New methods of
production ensure that this cycle always spins faster and faster. The curved
needle of the Blind-Hemming machine apes with incredible ease an arduous
couture technique, wherein each stitch of the handheld needle picks up only a
single warp thread of the fabric.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a more glib fashion than Laver but in similar vein, Oscar
Wildeâs oft-quoted observation, âfashion... is usually a form of ugliness so
intolerable that we have to alter it every six monthsâ, still stands, give or
take a few months. (As a proponent of the ghastly styles of the Aesthetic Dress
movement, Wilde could certainly speak with authority on ugliness.) </div>
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How much is
Jane Doe cognisant of the process? Consider a woman who buys an accordion
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The garment exists in the lineage of Mariano Fortuny, an early
20th century Spanish designer whose superb technique of hand pleating was
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Whether the buyer of the skirt has heard
of Fortuny is neither here nor there. The pleats in her skirt were set by huge
hot machines, and the machines worked fast. Surely she must know that though
she desires the skirt now, adores it perhaps, there will come a time in the not
too distant future in which she will not. The skirt wonât be torn, the pleats
will still be sharp but at some point she will find that the skirt no longer
seems beautiful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes the shift is more dramatic. The Reign of Terror
during the French Revolution saw previously fashionable garments become a
liability, marking their wearers as possible enemies of the state. The hat in
particular was viewed as symbolic of aristocratic frivolity and perhaps with
good reason given the tastes of the Second Estate. During happier days in the
court of King Louis XVI one princess was seen to have fashioned her wig around a
birdcage in which live butterflies fluttered. The threat of losing oneâs head
no doubt acted as a compelling inducement to cease adorning it so fabulously.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are some clothes that succeed in transcending Laverâs
cycle. One personâs emotional or affective attachment can mean that a garment
is drawn out of that trudging journey from shocking to drab to classic,
rearranging its value as an artifact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The op-shop wedding dress is one such garment and a
particularly pathos-laden one at that. For a single day this dress is a
singularly important piece of clothing. It has been cut, pulled and stitched
especially to fit the brideâs body. It is photographed, discussed and fussed
over, bridesmaids stooping to flatten its hem. And then the day is over.
Perhaps the bride (now âwifeâ) feels a glimmer of distaste, the dress having
been so uncomfortable or expensive, perhaps a little stained and really so
unwieldy and big â where will I keep it? It is dry cleaned (the op-shop wedding
dress is <i>always</i> clean) and donated. It has become a ridiculous object,
discarded but still steeped with some unknown womanâs personal but easily
imagined fantasies and fears and hopes of a grand wedding day. It is a
discarded relic â no bride will ever wear it again. It will probably become a
Halloween costume, a sartorial one-liner.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The lingering presence of the other is felt in the op- shop
wedding dress as it is in Rebeccaâs clothes. The objectâs meaning is no longer
derived from exquisite fabrication or form. The many hands that have touched
Rebeccaâs negligĂ©e have left a garment deeply imbued with confused memories,
which threaten to consume the people the dead woman has left in her wake.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And just as the orphaned wedding dress and negligée are
saturated with sensory and nostalgic significance, the bras in the Indonesian
market seem completely devoid of it. They too have made a departure from the
fashion cycle, entirely unlovely though not because of any detail of style or
cut. Rather they have come to inhabit a world in which clothing is robbed of
fantasy and personal attachment. In this place, the hideous excesses of fashion
are thrown into sharp relief (nylon, after all, takes 40 years to decompose).
The bras are not being sold to be worn, but sold to be sold. Trapped in their
PVC cocoons they have no tactile appeal and one can scarcely imagine a time
when they will be touched, worn or loved.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is a cruel one, the life of a garment; nasty, brutish,
and short. Buffeted by the seemingly arbitrary laws of fashionable taste, which
care little for an objectâs beauty and nothing for its state of repair â only
its place in the cycle of a trend. A projection of memories and emotional
meaning can seemingly drag the occasional piece of clothing from the fashion
cycle to a place where its craft is forgotten. By virtue of its intimate
character, as an object with a uniquely physical connection to the wearer, the
garment is well suited to become such a talisman. The millinerâs ribbon flits
in an instant between beauty and worthlessness. It is a more meandering process
by which the fashionable garment achieves such a fate, but the result is the
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I am so pleasantly surprised by the photos of Rihanna's performance at the latest instalment of the bonkers-fest that is the Victoria's Secret "Fashion" Show. (Oh I know, quotation marks humour. Move over Tina Fey.)</div>
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The dress is Vivienne Westwood. I feel like the sunglasses might be vintage Chanel.<br />
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I'm particularly fascinated by the last photo - the one in which she struts with Very Pretty Woman, Doutzen Kroes. Rihanna does more than hold her own and yet she doesn't dominate, precisely. In fact, I feel like there is a weird zen-voodoo-ying-yang sexiness balance in this photo.<br />
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The question of how to present female musicians at the VSFS is interestingly tricky terrain. For example, things didn't feel quite right when Fergie performed at the show in 2009:<br />
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The different between Fergie and Rihanna's ensembles is that the latter has some very decent fashion content. Fergie's outfit is an attempt to meet the VS Angels on their own terms (bonkers trash) and inevitably the comparison does not work to her advantage.<br />
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In 2011 Nicki Minaj went another way completely, taking a deranged whore clown of nightmares as her sartorial inspiration:<br />
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I actually adore this photo of Minaj and the oh so earnestly sexy Erin Heatherton, and get quite the Giulietta Masina in <i>La Strada</i> vibe from Nicki:<br />
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That said, and even bearing in mind that Miss Minaj has made outré costume an important part of her public persona, I can't help but feel that you can look at Fergie's example and find that Minaj has gone too far the other way. There is also something almost minstrel-ish about the singer's performance which feels kind of icky when you consider how fews black girls actually model in the show - I counted 3 out of the group of 37 models this year.<br />
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Katy Perry's live show aesthetic is so perfectly in tune with that of the VSFS that she must have seemed like an obvious choice when she performed in 2010:<br />
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I would actually say that, in the photos I have seen of the show at least, she often dominates the frame. That's not necessarily a good thing so far as Victoria's Secret is concerned.<br />
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And so it is Rihanna, with her Dietrich-ian sexiness, who manages to create the perfect dynamic. There's a quite a bit of Eartha Kitt-y cat cool in there too:<br />
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Rihnna exudes a very slightly masculine air while not a appearing, nor indeed wearing anything in the least butch. It's the opposite of how Missy Elliot appeared when she performed with Madonna, Britney and Christina at the Fauxmo Spectacular, 2003 VMAs:<br />
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Sidenote: Why didn't they make Missy the priest?!? I will never stop asking that question.</div>
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I'm fiending <a href="http://www.lelesadoughi.com/index.html" target="_blank">Lele Sadoughi's</a> jewellery line so badly that I can't even take pleasure in looking at it.</div>
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OH GOD THE PAIN.</div>
I make me sick.Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-38991493561805361672012-11-06T20:13:00.001-08:002012-11-06T22:12:32.961-08:00Obviously, Doctor<i>The Virgin Suicides</i> was already one of my top three all-time favourite movies when I first read the Jeffrey Eugenides book on which it was based. I actually loved the book too, but reading it made me admire Sofia Coppola's film all the more. It would have been so easy to turn that story into an intensely dark film but Coppola took it to another place entirely.<br />
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Here is The Preatures' (formerly The Preachers) cover of Danimals' song, "Christmas Worm's Quest for Fresh Apples"<br />
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Again, hearing the original work (which you can listen to <a href="http://whothehell.net/archives/6631" target="_blank">here</a>) makes me appreciate the reinterpretation all the more.<br />
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p.s. <a href="http://lonemaniac.com/post/33776310920/washington-x-isabella-manfredi#.UJnay-PZ_K0" target="_blank">Here</a> is a Lone Maniac photo shoot starring The Preatures' Isabella Manfredi. Let's talk about this:<br />
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<i>Photo by Tess Huton</i></div>
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First Charlotte Free (who, quelle horreur, is a model, hairy and <a href="http://www.thefashionspot.com/buzz-news/latest-news/172513-charlotte-free-says-her-unshaven-armpit-shot-for-terry-richardson-was-a-feminist-statement" target="_blank">eloquent</a>), and now Isabella?<br />
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<i>Photo by Terry Richardson</i></div>
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To be clear, I'm not pro-hairy pits from an aesthetic standpoint (duh, I read <i>Cosmo</i> as a teenager, I'm keenly aware of which parts of my body I'm meant to be ashamed of) but my brain knows it's pissweak that this crazy rigid standard applies to women and not men.<br />
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And remember folks, it's always beautiful women who ease in the scary new trends. Just ask Miranda Kerr and her high-cut bathers.<br />
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<i>Numéro #115, August 2010, photo by Sebastian Kim</i></div>
Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-45931783217737535012012-10-26T03:59:00.001-07:002012-10-28T03:08:11.754-07:00Bard BoysSo I'm not huge on theatre and a plays and stuff, but the dream sequence from Shakespeare's <i>Richard III </i>is pretty boss. <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A6Ky3oD9LIw" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<i>Richard III (1995), Directed by by Laurence Olivier</i></div>
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I would degrade myself in an exploitative women's magazine internship and spend the next twelve years fetching coffees, just for the chance to eventually be appointed assistant beauty editor and being able to publish an article on haircare called "Despair and Dye".</div>
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Anusha Rutnamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866522727973874660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860621848381239314.post-18596186133069535592012-10-14T05:01:00.002-07:002012-10-14T05:25:57.940-07:00Think evil of this.Given the dearth of olden-day stuff in Sydney CBD, I'm a bit hesitant to rag on what little there is. That said, I think it would be uncontroversial to describe this statue of Queen Victoria as ugly-fugly:<br />
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For anyone interested in its history, I highly recommend taking gander at <i>Public Art Around the World's </i><a href="http://www.publicartaroundtheworld.com/Queen_Victoria_Statue.html" target="_blank">page on it.</a> It was there I learnt that the monument is a relative newcomer to our shores - we got the thing off Ireland in 1984. Here are some photos from before and during the move:<br />
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Though one can imagine that the Irish would be even less inclined than most to have any affection for the monument and its subject, they graciously turned down several offers from scrap merchants before gifting the bronze statue to the Antipodes. Fun fact: James Joyce nicknamed it the "Auld Bitch". Bless.<br />
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You might wonder from whence my interest in the Auld Bitch sprang. I'd like to say that I simply have an insatiable appetite for all things historical, that the world is my archive and so on. The truth, sadly, is that I'm just a big ol' perv. Suffice it to say, my first inquiry into the subject was the Google search "Queen Victoria statue Sydney george st nipple shield".<br />
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Astonishingly this did not yield many results. But seriously folks, isn't her pin (the Star of the Order of the Garter, I think) a little... on the nose? Here is another depiction of Victoria wearing the Star, this time with less fetish-chic:<br />
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<i>Queen Victoria, 1843 (oil on canvas) William Fowler</i></div>
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Could it be that John Hughes, the sculpture's creator, was giving the Famine Queen, those dreadful Brits and, yes, The Man, a little thumb to nose action, an allegorical purple nurple, if you will? Probably not? Oh well, as long as we're here - </div>
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Who wore it better, Queen Victoria or Rihanna?</div>
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<i>Steven Klein, Vogue Italia Extreme Couture Supplement, September, 2009</i></div>
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