What a Loveseat!
Surrealism is back! And better than ever. According to our friends in the magical world of interiors, this incredibly bitchin couch, and others like it, is the centrepiece extraordinare of the contemporary and contemporaneously torqued home. Urbanite homeowners everywhere are practically falling over each other at trendy interior shops, snatching up lobster-handset phones, tables that stick to the ceiling, pyramidal "beach balls", and TV-shaped lamps.
Yes, spring is in the air. It's time to throw caution to the wind, cast your Ikea furniture into the firepit, and kiss your interiors-inhibitions goodbye.
Pucker up!
Liberation!
Gaultier delivers, and just in time for Spring. I think I speak for us all when I say "Thank God all those letters to Amnesty International were not sent in vain."
Our pleas have been heard; our prayers answered. Finally, after more than 15 years of wind-breaking nylon, spirit-crushing rayon, and ethically dubious furs from Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, we have a Spring outfit that really breathes.
No matter that this particular outfit would send the average Canadian female running into the nearest Tom Hortons - I mean...ahem, Holt Renfrew - for fear of imminent hypothemia, and/or an embarrasing nip-on. Or that it would not allow one to speak, eat, or blow one's nose. Such trivialities need no longer concern
las fashionistas modernas; after all, our niqab-clad sistas have been rocking outfits that proscribe the use of the mouth and nose for years. Centuries!
Nay, this is an outfit that really liberates. That sits up and screams "tooooorqued".
...At least as loud as one can scream with a paper snowflake lodged in the throatal.
7 to 10 Passages
From the programme for The Forsythe Company's recent performance in Ottawa:
The work '7 to 10 Passages' represents one of the final stages of the 20-year project, 'The Questioning of Robert Scott', which resulted in 7 radically different productions. Focused on the fallibility of perception and memory, each successive production relied on the fact that dance does not product an adjacent literature that defines and represents its position in the historical landscape of culture; scores, if you will, that are universally recognized and secure the authentic reproduction of works. The work adopts the view that the failure of a dance to become historically substantive might finally be an incumbent form of its successful functioning. '7 to 10 Passages' offers a slow, hallucinatory archaeology of the 20 years process of the works disappearance.
Or, in a more accurate description, they might have written, "After the auditorium has been blasted with screeching, repetitive, post-industrial, nightmare-inducing "music", 6 dancers will walk like paraplegics at an infinitesimally slow speed from the back of the stage to the front. While this is taking place, the audience will be treated to a completely nonsensical argument taking place between 2 sets of dancers seated at stage left and stage right, which crescendos into an anxiety-ridden screaming of 'SAID THE MONSTER! AND THEN THE MONSTER SAID! SAID THE MONSTER'".
Futuristic, fantastic post-schmegmaticism at its very, very best. Book the Forsythe Company at your local theatre today!
Product Alert: "Kathryn" at Jimmy Choo
The god of the shoe delivers another miracle: "Kathryn", known in less civilized circles as "The Bitch in Heat". A heel that somehow says "Luftwaffe" without the facist connotations. This grained goat shoe with a 85mm heel features criss-cross detail at the toe and ankle, self-warming soles, auto-locking straps, and a sunroof. Those with a weak pancreas need not apply.
Surf's Up
Today's International Herald Tribune reports that those tenacious, tolerant, and ever-inventive Aussies are well on their way to this year's shortlist for the Nobel. In fact, they may score the regular award
and the Peace Prize for the very same innovation. Behold: the Burqini.
For any female who's attempted to swim the 100 metre wearing loose-fitting sackcloth, it's hard not to think of this little number as the best thing since sliced bread. You retain all the modesty of the burqa, while gaining rapidly increased mobility in the water at the same time. The added flare and fashion, not to mention originality in style at the local beach, is sure to get heads turning.
Diva work!!
Trendsetters
Talk about a fully pimped outfit, this Victorian judge is ready to bouce, trounce, and pronounce judgement on yo' black ass. Notice how nicely the three quarter profile accentuates the chest garland, "duotang", and headpiece? Surely no accident. These cats know how to throw an outfit together. Galliano eat your heart out!
