Last week in Milan, when Miuccia Prada said that the femme fatale was making a triumphant return to the fashion arena, they turned out to be prophetic words indeed. Small wonder: this is a designer with the sharply honed instincts of a tiger in pursuit of its prey where predicting the way forward for fashion is concerned, both her own and that of her contemporaries.
Aside from Peter Hobbs's undeniable gift for titles, I Could Ride is at first glance quite unlike his introspective debut, The Short Day Dying. Genre-hopping, skittish and impressionistic, this short-story collection seems softer and more playful, lovely as a lucid dream.
Stew, the narrator and co-creator of the largely autobiographical and almost illicitly entertaining musical "Passing Strange," is not much of an actor, and he doesn't really claim to be. He's more of an indie-soul Puck, planting himself in the middle of the stage and observing his younger self's obsessive stumblings toward "the Real" with deadpan bemusement. Best known as the stocky, goateed
The CWKimberly: "The whole fashion thing, it doesn't interest me at all." America's Next Top Model "New York City, Here We Come" Feb. 27, 2008 Two shows in, and I've yet to see a real standout emerge among the
The late seventies were a very strange time for rock music. The late seventies were a very strange time for rock music.For a variety of reasons, rock and roll had become extremely polarized at the time. On the one hand, you had the disco thing reaching the incendiary pitch of Saturday Night Fever, with the whole John Travolta/Bee Gees deal. A trend which mulleted, diehard rockers found
What does a movie that was utterly of its moment look like when its moment has passed? In the case of "Diva," both not so hot and better than it should. Receiving a one-week 25th anniversary release at the Kendall starting today - with a fresh 35mm print, which matters with a pop-art bonbon like this - the movie that
Though it began Feb. 1 in New York City, fashion weeks in the capitals of couture are moving along at the steady pace of a stiletto. Currently in Milan, designers are rushing each minute to make sure their collections will be presented in the only way acceptable: exquisitely fierce.
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