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Sukie in the Graveyard
05/08/09

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When one is busy romanticizing what fashion and modeling once was, they forget to consider what it is now. What it will be.

This exhibit seemed to be so much about showing the history of fashion. What there anything in the exhibit to communicate how each model influenced the artist? Their personalities, likes, dislikes, attitudes or just damn (sound it out) "jua de vie" (cause I can't spell it, let alone even begin to start). HOW did the model muse? They don't just stand there. You CANNOT tell me that Veruschka just Stood there and that photo came out.

Also, that ring belt IS the outfit. Fail. Super Fail.

I'm sorry it sucked. Let's make a better one.
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Baroness
05/08/09

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Beautifully written, I'm sorry it was a disappointment. The soundtracks, graffiti, unlit cigarettes- wow what sorry props. As you said, it's hard to fail with some stunning, classic fashion photography.
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
05/08/09

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It sounds so underwhelming, and for that I am quite sad :(
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rightorwrong
05/08/09

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Sounds lame. Too bad, it should have been great. Both the Costume Institute and Islamic Art have been missing for years. I hope someone with influence is paying attention. I'll be seeing it on Saturday and Sunday - my usual deathmarch and art appreciation weekend.
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hfree
05/08/09

@rightorwrong: The Islamic Art galleries are being rennovated as part of the same project as the Greek and Roman galleries. They haven't been forsaken, I promise. I've seen some of the plans and it will be lovely when it's finally finished.
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hfree
05/08/09

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I still think this was an odd choice for an exhibit in an art museum in the way they are presenting it. If the point is model as muse and concentrates as much on the photographers as the designers, then the clothes are almost secondary. It seems like this would have worked much better as a photography exhibit. The Avedon show at the Met a few years back was fantastic, as was the David Bailey "Birth of the Cool" show in the UK in 2001. Both shows seemed to say more about the relationship between photographer and subject than this show. And if they left out Alaia then it really has nothing to do with model and designer. I usually really enjoy the Costume Institute shows, an included entries in my masters thesis about "Dangerous Liasons" and "Anglomania", but this one and the superheroes show last year just missed so badly. Why can't they stick to the small shows in the basement galleries? Those are always intriguing and well curated.

P.S. on the blank mannequins. I don't know if they are using them in this show, but the mannequins they use in the main Costume Institute basement galleries are based on Christy Turlington (both facially and in body proportions).
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Sandicomm
05/08/09

@hfree: Superheroes was okay, but they could have done so much more: gender roles, power dynamics, current state of the comic book industry. Instead it was all, "Hey, look, brightly colored body suit. IT MUST BE A SUPERHERO." Please. The exhibit could have been so much better.

The only exhibits that I saw recently that I loved was the Poiret exhibit and the Nan Kempner exhibit. But it seems like sponsors and donors (like Ms. Wintour) have really gained control of the Institute. The quality of the exhibits has really gone downhill. Poor Harold Koda.
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hfree
05/08/09

@Sandicomm: I'm hoping that the acquisition of the Brooklyn Museum's collection will breath some new life into the Institute. Something to shake things up.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
05/08/09

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.....At least no one's jumping. Right? That's good!
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Fate'sBitch
05/08/09

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Um, that 1980 Veruschka is Amazing. I want it poster-sized and framed on my wall, like now.
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Fate'sBitch
05/08/09

@Fate'sBitch: blerg, 1968.
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milominderbinder
05/08/09

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the second picture looks so much like man ray's photographs of lee miller i think it was meant as an homage to surrealist photography
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Fate'sBitch
05/08/09

@milominderbinder: I agree, I immediately thought of Nude Bent Forward when I saw it.

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maneki neko
05/08/09

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The second photo is sort of epic in its objectification/dehumanization.
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Goethewritesdrivel
05/08/09

@maneki neko: Try 'glorification of perfect form'...
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/08/09

@Goethewritesdrivel: I'll go 50/50 on that one. It's striking and gorgeous, but I was a bit disturbed.
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TwiceShy
04/02/09

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I read the Vogue piece but I wasn't hooked. I think she probably had some wonderful adventures but just can't capture them in writing.
Maybe there will be a movie...
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PhillyLass
04/02/09

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So, her bid for attention is predicated on pimping out her relationships to famous people? Ew.
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Bgirl_Hamster
04/02/09

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It would have been way cooler if her dad was the Viscount de Chagny.
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Mafalda para Presidente
04/02/09

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You know you're really famous when a pharmaceutical company names an allergy medication after you.
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BabyJane
04/02/09

@Mafalda para Presidente: That's what my brother Viagra always says!
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Mafalda para Presidente
04/02/09

@BabyJane: I'm naming my firstborn Nexium.
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Jello Mix
04/02/09

@Mafalda para Presidente: I'd hold out for a candy bar.
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BabyJane
04/02/09

@Mafalda para Presidente: I think Valtrex is catchy.
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ElleL
04/02/09

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I read her article in this month's Vogue. Great stuff, especially how awesomely insane Ryan O'Neill and Jack Nicholson seemed to be.
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HeinzDoofenshmirtz
04/02/09

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The Jack Nicholson? I read he believed his mom was his sister for a really long time, his parents as his grandparents and that he never knew his dad. Hmm...
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LaFemme
04/02/09

@nutellagirl (nigeriangirl): Yreah, I think part of that is right...that his mother had him very young (like 15ish) and he was raised by his grandparents with his mother as his older sister.
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Red-headed bookworm
04/02/09

@LaFemme: Yep, imagine what a screwed up family tree would happen if you combined the Huston and Nicholson ones.
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