@Iluviaporos - I imagine that the reason women didn't wear them in the old days was because women were always expected to appear in public fully dressed and a dressing gown was too casual. But when your society is based around this kind of thing, it would also have mechanisms in place...
An unnamed man, simply called "The Man" (Richard Schaal) is trapped in a cubical white room where anyone else can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character,...
There’ll be a couple of episodes of a show calledWREMwhich is all about that pastime/necessitycalled Sleep. The moniker can be also be translated as “Witnessing Rapid Eye Movement” or even as “Willderness Response Escape Monitor”. The show may even be Michael Stipe related too, who ...
Snacks (going to university without biscuits is like going to Barbados without a sunhat) Note:Often, if living in halls or other shared private accommodation, you will already be provided with a kettle and a toaster, as well as some cutlery and crockery. If in doubt about what you can cro...
Not as it is today when many of us aspire to Chanel for all the wrong reasons. In the fifth decade of the twentieth century soaps and hairsprays smelled of the influence of Chanel in America. It was as if the thought of Paris glamour could be found with in the bubbles that floated ...
Picking up where September’s installment, titled “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” left off, this is the first time the event returned to the first Monday in May since the pandemic (when I last covered the red carpetfor Electric Lit). Part two suitably upped the drama. ...
a householder and the head of a family, promising him instead Utopias which are called (appropriately enough) “Anticipations” or “News from Nowhere.” We come back, in fact, to the main feature which has already been mentioned. The past is communal: the future must be individualist. In...
Producers Guild Of America/Getty Images & Eugene Powers/Shutterstock Here is what you might call a stark contrast. Emmy-winner RuPaul projects a beautiful image when made up, no matter in drag or not. But looking that iconic is hard work, and there are going to be moments when RuPaul An...
Taking it the furthest back in time is Elena Velez who will recontextualize costumes from America’s reconstructionist period with inspiration from “Gone With the Wind.” Not as historical, but still vintage-inspired, Wes Gordon chose as his inspiration a striking profile shot ofCarolina Herrerafr...
I nodded, he beckoned, I entered and there she was. Seated before her mirror on a small bench, wrapped in an elegant dressing gown, she turned and offered me her hand… “Kile…?” “Miss Jackson.” (So far, so good: nofaux pas.) ...