Via Wikimedia Commons July 14, 1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson: "There is a good deal to be said for frivolity. Frivolous people, when all is said … [Read more...]
Dior 2020 Collection/Fashion Film “Le Mythe Dior” Criticized for All-White Cast
This week, Dior unveiled its Fall 2020 haute couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri through a short film featuring mermaids, snail women, hunky horned forest creatures, and statues coming to life, directed … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Architect, Philip Johnson
July 8, 1906– Philip Cortelyou Johnson: "All architects want to live beyond their deaths." Ohio born Philip Johnson is one of my favorite figures in the exalted field of Architecture; one of my passions, with 20th century American architecture as my focus. As I type that, I … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay: 1946, the Bikini is Introduced to the World
On July 5, 1946, the world's first bikini made its debut at a poolside fashion show in Paris. It is now so ubiquitous, it's difficult to believe how shocking it once was. When the bikini first arrived, its revealing cut scandalized even the French fashion models who were … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Jean Cocteau
"Cocteau In Bed With A Mask, Paris" (1927) by Berenice Abbott, via YouTube July 5, 1889 - Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau: "Life is a horizontal fall." He was a poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. While still in his teens, Cocteau began to … [Read more...]
Dispatches From Portland: Darcelle XV, the West Coast’s Longest-Running Drag Show is Nominated for Landmark Status
Photo via Wikimedia Commons On Tuesday, June 30, my Representative, the honorable Earl Blumenauer, urged the National Park Service to add Darcelle XV to the National Register of Historic Places. Since 1967, two years before Stonewall, Darcelle XV has been Portland's premier … [Read more...]
#ArtDept: The USA’s Most Beautiful Money Featured Women
Detail from the U.S. $1 silver certificate, issued in 1896. Our current president worships money but degrades women. In 2015, Women on 20s, a non-profit organization whose motto is "A Woman's Place Is On The Money, began a campaign to … [Read more...]
Tearing Down the Monuments: Should Mount Rushmore Remain?
Library of Congress Our fetid mango-hued president plans to celebrate Independence Day with a pretentious presentation at Mount Rushmore, a sculpture carved into the granite face of a small mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The sculpture features the 60-foot heads … [Read more...]
#RIP: Gay Filmmaker, Joel Schumacher
Via YouTube We lost openly gay filmmaker Joel Schumacher on Monday, taken by cancer at 80 years old. Schumacher started his career as costume designer before becoming a filmmaker. The style and swagger of his snazzy hit films betray the junkiness of much of his work. He was … [Read more...]
Dreyer’s Ice Cream Announces It Will Rebrand Their “Eskimo Pies”
Eskimo Pies – those chocolate-covered, vanilla ice cream bars on a stick from your childhood – are being rebranded. Elizabell Marquez, head of marketing for the brand’s parent company Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, told Rolling Stone. “We have been reviewing our Eskimo Pie … [Read more...]
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