Filed under: Fame, Fashion News, T.V. | Tags: americas next top model, antm, claire, cycle 10, episode 6, Lauren, paulina, sprint, top 10, top model
If you think only dumb girls watch America’s Next Top Model, you’re wrong. Actually, ANTM is a cesspool of knowledge. Here’s what I learned this week:
1. Whitney’s got a plus-size chip on her shoulder.
2. Top Model is really just a Sprint commercial with prizes.
3. Bright yellow skirted bikinis aren’t for everyone. Oh, Lauren…sigh.
4. Speaking of Laurnen, she’s got a shitty personality and a walk to match.
5. You should always do a test run before you jump face first onto a hard plastic surface.
6. It ain’t the Year of the Rat! It’s the Year of the Biaaaaaatch! From Claire to Paulina.
7. Fatima is too beautiful and too graceful for Top Model.
8. Paulina’s not a fan of “weird European tackiness.” Hmmph. I LOVE it.
9. I would really hate it if someone thought Lauren had more potential than me at anything. The humiliation.
10. There is a god–they told Claire to beat it!
Filed under: Fashion News, Magazines | Tags: airbrushing, british fashion council, Magazines, skinny models, uk
WWD reports that the UK’s Periodicals Publishers Association is pow-wowing with the British Fashion Council and magazine editors to discuss the “complex issue” of digitally enhanced models. Following the hoopla about the unrealistic bodily expectations of the fashion industry and its affect on models (which lead to age and BMI restrictions on some of the world’s most famous fashion weeks), the newest suspicion is that airbrushed photos might hurting the public, too.
Duh.
What’s the solution, though? Aren’t fashion mags kind of the same as cigarettes at this point? I mean, if you smoke cigs you shouldn’t be surprised when lung cancer come ‘a knocking, and if you pick up a glossy full of impossibly gorgeous, leggy, hairless, skinny models, you shouldn’t be shocked when it makes you feel like a fat, squat, hairy beast. Right?
–Valentina
Filed under: Art Scene, Consume This | Tags: color chart, frank stella, moma, museum of modern art, new york city
I spent this last weekend in New York City taking in a lot of food and a little bit of art. I was really anxious to see MOMA’s latest exhibit, Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, and I wasn’t disappointed. It featured works from my personal fave, Frank Stella, plus other expressions of color from Andy Warhol, Angela Bulloch, Marcel Duchamp, Sol LeWitt and lots more.
Being a color fanatic, I went in hungry and left totally inspired. As much as I love color, I never really spent much time thinking about the standardization or mass production of it, and the impact that would have on art and the visual world. I even bought the book, which was $65 and worth every penny.
Even if you can’t get to the MOMA, you should still check out the exhibit online.
Pretty fucking rad.
–Valentina
