Last month at Inspiramais, Brazil's leading fashion trade fair, we discovered the unusual works of twelve of the country's emerging print designers. Working in the theme of resistance, like artists everywhere, they came together in the +Prints project to express and protest modern tyranny using notions of ethnic diversity, colorful folklore, and bold embroidery.
When I grow up, I want to be a professional nose. Sniffing away until the nose on my face, which is big enough for a family of five to move in up there with their furniture, invents a perfume like Vilhelm's The Oud Affair, inspired by Ava Gardner and her bullfighter boyfriend.
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.
