CNN covers a protest outside of the Marietta GA bar selling OBAMA IN ’08 shirts adorned with the Curious George picture, above.
Entries Tagged 'Fashion' ↓
The South Will Rise Again
May 16th, 2008 — Controversy, Fashion, Politics, Race
I Guess They Just Didn’t Know Where That Finger Had Been.
May 5th, 2008 — Advertising, Controversy, Design, Fashion, Magazines, Media, Photography, Pop Culture, Sex
Further proof that, especially planetarily, there’s no accounting for taste: The above ad, notes Boinkology, for Tom Ford Sunglasses, has been banned in Italy by that country’s Institute for Advertising Self-Discipline (IAP).
The Devil Wears Payless: Anna Wintour’s Doppelganger Writes In
May 1st, 2008 — Controversy, Fashion, Internet, Media, Photography, Race
Twice as nice: Somebody’s pretending they run VOGUE
Thought I’d show faithful MEDIA ASSASSIN readers something that came through here last month.
On April 10, I received this. You can click on and read it:
“Love Your Fragrance. What is It?”
April 24th, 2008 — Advertising, Controversy, Fashion, Military, Politics, Pop Culture, Sex
“Schtupp” just didn’t test well: The new Teutonic scent
The Germans: They went there. They totally went there. (Respect due to BoingBoingTV for the tip.)
Because it’s the question overloading your neurons right this moment, yes, this package, above, is totally real. The scent is called VULVA—a rather pretty word, it occurs to me—Original.
Flashdance: That “Steel-Town Girl on a Saturday Night” Turns 25 Today
April 15th, 2008 — Advertising, Black Music, Dance, DVD, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Hip-Hop, Media, Music Video, Pop Culture
What a feeling: Carlton Draught’s “Kevin Kavendish” gets footloose
Here’s the safest bet you can possibly make in your life: When director Adrian Lyne released Flashdance, on April 15, 1983, dollars-to-donuts that neither he nor the movie’s distributor, Paramount, was counting on anyone talking about it a quarter of a century later.
Tight Tees!: Kwame & Christine Bring Something Sexy for Spring!
April 14th, 2008 — Controversy, Fashion, Government, Internet, Politics, Race, Sex
Thanks to Afro-American Pie for tipping me to the spring’s hottest tee (detail, above): A stylish little number, set off with mugshots of indicted Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff / paramour Christine Beatty, and tastefully finished with patter from the duo’s estimated 14,000 X-rated e-mail text messages. Sassy!
Love the Shoes.
April 11th, 2008 — Advertising, Art, Design, Fashion, Magazines, Media, Pop Culture
Bag lady: Victoria Beckham says “Aaah” for photog Juergen Teller
Interesting article from yesterday’s New York Times on the creative partnership between German photographer Juergen Teller and American designer Marc Jacobs. But even more startling are Teller’s images, which have prettied up W and other fashion bibles for a decade: Teller as artist Cindy Sherman’s twin, or, in an incredible story, as Charlotte Rampling’s hapless gigolo.
Bravo, Gawker. Bravo, Observer.
April 2nd, 2008 — Advertising, Blogs, Controversy, Entertainment, Fashion, Magazines, Media, Race, Sports
The sole issue more amazing than the blatancy of VOGUE’s having mined crude racist imagery for their April 2008 LeBron James/Giselle Bündchen cover has been the whiteout of surrounding media on the issue.
Here, in New York, neither The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The New York Sun, or The Village Voice have cracked a word on this subject, online or off. Newsday wrote something, before the direct pairing of the cover and H.R. Hopps’s 1917 Destroy This Mad Brute—Enlist poster, right, was widely known. As for television, local and network, zero.
Monkey See, Monkey Doo-Doo: How VOGUE “Honoured” LeBron James by Smearing Black People with White Supremacy & Gorilla Feces
March 31st, 2008 — Blogs, Controversy, Culture, Design, Fashion, Film, Journalism, Magazines, Media, Pop Culture, Race, Sports
Everything but the helmet: LeBron James meets his doppelganger
“Vogue spokesman Patrick O’Connell said the magazine ‘sought to celebrate two superstars at the top of their game’ for the magazine’s annual issue devoted to size and shape.
“‘We think Lebron James and Gisele Bundchen look beautiful together and we are honoured to have them on the cover,’ he said.”
“But magazine analyst Samir Husni believes the photo was deliberately provocative, adding that it ‘screams King Kong.” Considering Vogue’s influential history, he said, covers are not something that the magazine does in a rush.
“‘So when you have a cover that reminds people of King Kong and brings those stereotypes to the front, Black man wanting white woman, it’s not innocent,’ he said.”
—“Vogue cover starring LeBron James is called racially insensitive by some,” Megan Scott, The Associated Press
“Lying,” photographer Annie Leibovitz’s late lover, Susan Sontag, famously said in an essay, “is an elementary means of self-defense.”
Perhaps knowing this is why both Leibovitz, right, creator of VOGUE’s controversial April 2008 cover photo, above right, and Anna Wintour, VOGUE editor-in-chief, below, both 58, have remained absolutely mute since accusations began to fly, over a week ago, that their coy image—featuring Cleveland Cavaliers point forward LeBron James, 23, and supermodel Gisele Bündchen, 27—was a less-than-subtle piece of racist indoctrination.
Nice Hat.
March 17th, 2008 — Art, Design, Fashion
Seoul-born JooYoun Paek, a resident with the art/technology center Eyebeam, here in New York,
observes people doing everyday things like dressing and undressing, drinking and eating, calling and texting on cell phones, writing emails and letters, folding origami, etc. Then, she uses her observations on human habits and behavior to design interactive objects for public spaces.
Right now, you’re probably thinking of all the places and situations that chapeau, called Pillowig, would come in handy. (My favorite detail: The little bow.) Check out her web site for suggested uses, and more of her goofy, Dada-chomping work.
