McQueen is dead boys: The missing person at the Costume Institute:
There are white gowns in the gallery that would, if they could, sprout fangs and tear that innocuous Royal wedding dress to shreds, blameless queenlet included.
Bio: Tom Scocca is managing editor of Deadspin. His book, Beijing Welcomes You, will be published by Riverhead in 2011.
There are white gowns in the gallery that would, if they could, sprout fangs and tear that innocuous Royal wedding dress to shreds, blameless queenlet included. At Monday morning's press preview of the show, one such gown stood just inside the entrance, a spotlight flashing off its brilliant, jagged-yet-flowing surface—a surface made of razor clam shells, gathered by McQueen from the beach at Norfolk and lugged into the studio. Next to it stood a gown the color of fresh blood, with ostrich-feather skirts and a bodice made of painted glass medical slides. More
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on May 4th, 2011 7:12amCunningham's work falls in the territory where fashion becomes clothing, or vice versa. The fashion industry itself prefers to obfuscate how this works, how the decisions of designers, prepared seasons in advance, correspond somehow to the collective desires of the public to choose put on a particular style in the moment.
Cunningham blows away the smoke and mist, asking only, what do I see people wearing now? More
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on March 16th, 2011 12:05pmMondo Guerra is a great American, and I will be surprised if he fails to win "Project Runway." I am already surprised that the coming attractions for the Project Runway finale imply that there was some sort of narrow decision involved, though I know that the coming attractions are always edited to be as deceptive as possible. "Project Runway" teaches the viewer how to think about "Project Runway," how to answer the question posed by "Project Runway," and if the answer is not Mondo Guerra, what could it possibly be? More
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on October 28th, 2010 11:27am
