As part of a lengthy paternity suit, the entombed remains of Salvador Dalí will be exhumed in his hometown of Figueres, Spain, at 9:30 am on July 20, 2017. Morbid, perhaps, but unearthing the body appears to be the only way, as ordered by a judge, to definitively determine whether or not the artist is the biological father of Pilar Abel Martinez.
Suddenly fat cats are everywhere. They're hissing at the have-nots, kneading dubious trade deals, and clawing democratic governments to their will.
Meet Ryan Burke, the makeup artist (and self-portraitist) from small-town Virginia who's blowing up big in New York as an ambassador for the legendary UK makeup artist Pat McGrath.
In a kind of haute carnage, Jessica Harrison takes found porcelain dolls and alters them in ghastly, macabre ways, painting on blood splatters and adding internal organs to the exterior.
One figurine looks as if she's plunged her hand into her chest and pulled out her own heart as a kind of sacrifice, while another holds her eyeballs after ripping them from their sockets.
Remember the retro sneakers Bill Murray's character Steve Zissou wore in The Life Aquatic, the blue-striped ones that were so identifiably Adidas? Now, thirteen years since Wes Anderson's cult classic, Adidas has quietly produced the Zissou shoe, complete with a two-tone blue Three Stripe, yellow laces, a contrast blue heel tab, and "Zissou" emblazoned on the side.
Slapping political faces, double chins and all, onto swimsuits might be the only way to get through the horror show that is this presidency. If that's the case, hats off to Beloved Wear for bringing a dose of levity to the resistance, for what it's worth.
For the more apolitical of beach-goers, there are plenty of traditional sight-gags — Borat, Nicholas Cage, pizza — to keep you giggling until the midterms.
Barbette — born Vander Clyde Broadway in 1898 — was a drag pioneer, circus acrobat, toast of Paris, friend of Josephine Baker, muse (and lover, briefly) of Jean Cocteau, and frequent subject of Man Ray's lens.
Here's something to think about the next time you strap on your crusty gym clothes and curse "whoever invented exercise." Swedish physician and said inventor Gustav Zander pioneered mechano-therapy — i.e. fitness through manually operated contraptions — in the late 19th century, circa industrialization, when hard labor wasn't a choice for most.
The cheeky creator of the parody label Vetememes is back at it with Boolenciaga. Davil Tran, the 20-something Brooklynite who went viral with Vetememes merch almost identical to Vetements, plus or minus a few letters, is now having fun with Balenciaga.
