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Dance Magic Dance

Because this makes me happy…

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Personal faves are days 4, 7, 13, 15 (for the shirt, which reappears on day 92), 23, 26, 28, 36 (his jacket is spectacular), 37 (very MJ-esque in RocK With You), 56, 62, 69!!!, 80, and 87.

Interesting how student art galleries look the same everywhere you go (good times at UCSB, good times). Though I do admit, Yael’s facilities as a whole look quite a bit nicer than what I had access to. I like how you can tell he goes home over the holidays (I’m guessing somewhere in SoCal) cause he goes from wearing heavy jackets to t-shirts.

See the list of songs used here.

- suse

Times are Tough, But…

tightsarenotpants.com

- Ferrrosha

Almost as awesome as Derelict

I admit to liking fashion. Yes, even high fashion couture unwearable stuff. But not because I ever think I’d like to buy most of it or want to fill my closet with Louis Vuitton bags (I take that back, if I could get the Murakami Louis Vuitton bags (that actually have Murakami’s pictures/designs on them, not just the Cherry Line or the Multicolore line) and fill my closet, I might). I am more intrigued with the creativity and what some of those designers are able to come up with. Hence favorite challenges from Project Runway tend to be the Gristede’s-esque ones. But in the midst of all this fashion loving there are always the ridiculously bad decisions. And this months winners are the editors of Vogue India!

Somehow, Vogue India editors thought that a fashion spread using every day regular citizens to model accessories was a good idea. Now, on the base of it, this doesn’t seem so bad. We like real people in fashion spreads. But as Jossip pointed out: we usually reserve our “thanks for not using anorexic models” applause for those who don’t substitute them with “skinny because of malnourishment” persons. And on top of that you then realize that the majority of the Indian population subsists on just over $1 a day and there isn’t a single item in the spread that is under $100. Meaning that to actually own any of the items in the fashion spread the people pictured would have to save months to years to actually purchase any of them.

Just another day in India with our Burberry umbrella!

Yes, India does have a burgeoning middle class. Yes, Vogue is doing some branding. Yes, there are numbers of people in India that can afford these items. I get capitalism. But why not use ‘real’ Indians from this middle class instead of individuals who appear to be from a much more working class background. I’m not even going to go into stereotypes and appropriation here (the magazine may be Indian, but the products aren’t).

But I guess another reason I don’t actually buy ‘high fashion’ is that I just don’t understand why if you have enough money to actually purchase such items you would when there are about a bajillion other things that the money could go to and actually do some good. Sigh.

- suse

P.S. Watched the Palin speech last night. Don’t remember which reporter it was, but she was talking to delegates and remarked about how women at the convention and across the nation seemed to be having a visceral reaction (meant in a positive way) to Sarah Palin’s speech. I know I can be counted in that category, as long as barfiness is a visceral reaction.

There She Is…

I always, always think that lady politicians and first lady de facto politicians always get too much flak for their fashion.  Michelle Obama’s fabulous, but arm-bearing sheaths (gasp! the lady has arms!).  Hillary Rodham-Clinton’s primary color pantsuits (and the woman got it SO much worse when she was in the white house…only the cast of Friends, Farah Fawcett, and Bo Derek got so much hair talk!).  Barbara Bush’s gumball pearls and Queen Mother styling.  Christine Todd Whitman’s failure to find that perfect balance between the feminine and the political (spoiler alert: there is balance, ladies. they happen to be mutually exclusive in the US of A. it’s a game you can’t win.).

But this.  Is.  Amazing.  Attention must be payed.

...Miss America! Photo from Jezebel

So, you can have it all.  I feel a Grand Old Party/National Riffle Association collaboration calendar coming on here! Jindal, put on the Old Glory Speedo in service of your country.  And maybe you could be fixing our broken borders, which might require some sort of tool belt?

Can I just say that Alaska, the Second Amendment, and Family Planning are having the Best Week Ever?

- Ferrrosha

Afrikan Apparel

Pervy, porny vertical manufacturery is no longer confined to solid colors or gold lamé monotony.  Charney and friends have integrated cultural appropriation with their sexplotation, so you no longer have to choose.

Afrika Unite!

Meet Afrika, a lovely, young, vaguely ethnic, sort of makes you think of your one hippie friend who loves African dance and/or drumming and/or orphans type of print.  Hip, fresh, and boldly going where fashion goes after its tired of vaguely Arab scarves and styles.  Like the Ottoman Empire before them, Amerikan Apparel is going to Afrika.

However, I still have questions.  Why isn’t this line part of the Red campaign?  Doesn’t AA care about Africa with a “c”?  Where is the children’s chorus/Ladysmith Black Mambazo/Zulu warrior? And where, oh where, are the the Africans? In Park Slope and Williamsburg, I’ll bet.

- Ferrrosha

Full disclosure: I think the Red campaign is silly (sorry, Bono!) but if you’re going to make crappy, reddish, African-y type stuff, pay your dues, at least!