![]() ![]() Various subcultures get a look in too, with Zandra Rhodes’s jewelled punk wedding dress being a particular highlight. We get beautiful velvet mourning dresses and AIDS crisis-era Versace, kinky Christopher Kane latex and Catholicism-heavy Simone Rocha. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty ImagesĪll the themes one might expect from an examination of black are present: sex, death, religion. Henri Bergmann wearing Christopher Kane’s ‘Hellbound dress’ (Fall/Winter 2022) at the Fashion Awards 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Instead, we skip from Yves Saint Laurent’s sultry Le Smoking tux (1979–80) through to the bulbous bulges from Comme des Garçons’s ‘Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body collection’ (1997), with pit stops via Virgil Abloh’s ironic knit featuring the white words ‘Little Black Dress’ in quotation marks and an excellent section on Afrofuturist aesthetics overseen by an imposing Maximilian gown. as functional and well-executed as a model T-Ford car). Few of the garments here would fulfil the rest of that famous Vogue assessment of Chanel’s LBD as being a ‘Ford’ dress (i.e. Beginning with Chanel and Dior, it offers a whistle-stop tour of the myriad ways in which the black dress has been approached, embraced, twisted and dispensed with. ‘Beyond the Little Black Dress’ is an exhibition in which most of the garments are black, though not all of them are entirely and several are not dresses at all. Its presence, entirely necessary for the show, sets an interesting tone for an exhibition seeking to reinterpret the unassailable status of the LBD – acknowledging the garment’s stripped-back origins before quickly seeking to move beyond them. On first glance it is surprisingly dowdy, not so much sleek as sack-like. The Chanel LBD is still held up as an icon of design: easy, flattering and flexible, it continues to fulfil US Vogue’s promise of being ‘the frock that all the world will wear’. One of her creations greets viewers near the door: a simple, black silk crepe shift with chevron panels and long sleeves from 1926. The disapproving ghost of Chanel hangs over ‘Beyond the Little Black Dress’ at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Terrific movie.Illustration of Chanel’s little black dress by Main Rousseau Bocher, published in Vogue (October, 1926) The fact that I'm a modern day hippy(if I get enough sticky) makes this film all the more enjoyable and also all the more infuriating. This is certainly a movie for those who have a similar view on life as that of the hippie generation. This is as anti-establishment as movies come and Dennis Hopper's direction is great. The cast is pretty good here with Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and an excellent performance from Jack Nicholson. Along the way they pick up a couple of interesting characters, spend a little time in jail, smoke marijuana, and deal with the anti-long haired hippy stereotypes of the south. for a cross country road trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and then to their retirement in Florida. ![]() Two biker hippies make a big cocaine sale and then leave L.A. It's actually the only time I've seen a movie that gets the acid trip right. The acid trip scene in this film is the best tripping scene ever filmed in my opinion. It does the best job of any film I've ever seen at summing up the hippy state of mind and the hippy experience. And couldn't find it anywhere."Įasy Rider is the quintessential hippy movie. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. Captain America: No, I mean it, you've got a nice place.
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