Alexander McQueen, Designer, Is Dead at 40
NY Times February 11, 2010 Alexander McQueen, Designer, Is Dead at 40 By ERIC WILSON and CATHY HORYN Alexander McQueen, the renegade British fashion designer known for producing some of the most...
View ArticlePicture Me: “a model’s diary”
As a fan of cable TV’s Project Runway and documentaries about Karl Lagerfeld and Valentino, I jumped at the opportunity to see a press screening of Picture Me: “a model’s diary” last Thursday that was...
View ArticleSavage Beauty: the Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Met
Always looking for an opportunity to disassociate myself from a herd mentality on the left, I have found occasion in the past to write about haute couture designers, including Karl Lagerfeld,...
View ArticleThree documentaries of note
Reviewed below: –”Beat Hotel” –”God Save My Shoes” –”Surviving Progress” In catching up with AMC TV’s terrific “Mad Men” series (Season Five began last Sunday), I was watching an episode from Season...
View ArticleBarneys bigotry
Published by billionaire Mort Zuckerman, a diehard member of the Israel lobby, the New York Daily News has been evolving into a fairly hard-hitting “anti-racist” publication, to use the term that has...
View ArticleThe decline and fall of Levi-Strauss
No, I am not talking about the French anthropologist who applied structuralism to indigenous societies. Rather it is the blue jean company that has fallen upon hard times, much to my dismay. I imagine...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Fashion
COUNTERPUNCH WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 24-26, 2015 The True Costs of an Aesthetic The Political Economy of Fashion by LOUIS PROYECT Perhaps there is no better example of Karl Marx’s “fetishism of...
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