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Fashion Futurist: Can-collector costume
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Predictions and interpretations of trends in fashion and culture. Tuesday, June 17, 2008. I always get transfixed by the clothes of the Chinese-American women who collect bottles and cans in downtown New York. Though definitely the result of poverty and with the main goal of utility, these women's outfits are quite beautiful and fascinating. First of all, they just have their outfits DOWN! Home-made out of other cloth and with elastic at both ends to keep them on! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Fashion Futurist: Naive makeup
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Predictions and interpretations of trends in fashion and culture. Tuesday, January 15, 2008. Instead of trying to make your makeup look perfect, why not make it look imperfect - even naive? Women are still stuck trying to look like celebrities, with their makeup as well as their clothes. This is not only boring (and vulgar), but impossible! 160;I think adult women should go back to applying makeup like they did when they were little girls playing with their mothers' lipstick. That. And looks hideous B...
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Fashion Futurist: Six human needs
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Predictions and interpretations of trends in fashion and culture. Friday, April 4, 2008. Recently I've become a big fan of Ellen Dissanayake. What Is Art For? Superstitious," "magical") ways of transcending ourselves. Towards the end of the book, Dissanayake speculates about exactly what it is that modern Westerners are missing that makes them need art. She identifies six "human needs," which are not being well met in our text-centered culture:. She thinks that if we reorganized society with an orientat...
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Fashion Futurist: Long hair for men
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Predictions and interpretations of trends in fashion and culture. Thursday, April 24, 2008. Long hair for men. I've been floating this idea to lots of people recently and everyone hates it. But I still think it's a good trend. Nothing grody, just to-the-collar or a little past. No ponytails, necessarily (although that could be a great dirtbag. The lifestyle demands of Millennials. 160;(while whining piteously. Have been sporting. This also fits with the long hair. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Fashion Futurist: Radical Chic redux
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Predictions and interpretations of trends in fashion and culture. Friday, June 27, 2008. Along with the natural/afro hair. And authentic African names. That I think an Obama candidacy and presidency is going to bring to the forefront, I'm starting to wonder if some Black Power-influenced style is going to come back in 2009. I mentioned in this post. Black jackets, suits, and coats, and flat black boots. And I'm thinking that the camouflage. Add to that a dumbing-down of (or maybe even dispensing-with?
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Fashion Futurist: African names
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Predictions and interpretations of trends in fashion and culture. Wednesday, April 16, 2008. When/if Barack Obama is elected president, there will be a huge surge in African-American parents giving their kids traditional African first names. Currently, it seems to be more common for African-Americans to give their kids African-. Names as opposed to strictly "authentic," letter-for-letter African names. According to this article. Perhaps we'll even see a reversal of the long-term trend of upwardly-mobile,...
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Fashion Futurist: Kawaii
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Predictions and interpretations of trends in fashion and culture. Tuesday, December 29, 2009. After all the minimalist androgyny ( predicted. Is over, girls and young women are going to get all Japanese-style kawaii. This is sort of what Lady GaGa does already, and actually what Gwen Stefani does with Harajuku Lovers. I don't think it'll just be the decora-chan style of Harajuku District, though -. Public-persona-as-avatar: q.v. http:/ headfoot.tumblr.com/post/287944171/. December 31, 2009 at 11:32 AM.
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Fashion Futurist: So hot it's cool, so cool it's hot
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Predictions and interpretations of trends in fashion and culture. Wednesday, April 2, 2008. So hot it's cool, so cool it's hot. I've been reading Understanding Media. 160;and thinking about how McLuhan's theories about hot and cool media. 160;Or does the mixing of "hot" and "cool" online make the internet " lukewarm. I think a good way of understanding the internet in McLuhan's terms is with the description used in a Pop-Tart commercial. That's what the internet is like. It is, I believe, an i...The in...
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Fashion Futurist: Cultural beauty
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Predictions and interpretations of trends in fashion and culture. Tuesday, July 15, 2008. I'm reading the second book by Ellen Dissanake (whom I wrote about before here. Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why. And it, like her first book What Is Art For? July 16, 2008 at 8:43 AM. July 17, 2008 at 8:04 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). San Francisco, CA, United States. View my complete profile. Bring back the phone! The Wit of the Staircase. Vice DOS and DON'Ts. The New Shelton wet/dry.
