If I lived on the West Coast, or if I even had a good excuse for a business trip out West, I'd go see this exhibit of Prada skirts. While the LATimes, unfortunately and surprisingly, has no fashion writers as good as the NYT, they are able to pull off such memorable lines as:
*"Waist Down" also makes viewers consider how the body below the waist is a zone of political, social and artistic conflict. The precipitous ups and downs of hemlines over the 18 years of fashion presented here illustrate the skirt's role as a social barometer. As such an object of femininity, the skirt seduces, flirts and labels. Each of those qualities is cleverly illustrated, sometimes with an adapted windshield wiper.
*Other skirts have been vacuum-packed like some boil-in-bag meal and hung along translucent walls. With technology borrowed from futon packing, they're squashed to look more like a sea anemone or pressed flower than a garment.
"It kind of freezes the composition of the skirt," Ota says. "Sometimes in a still moment, you get a better understanding of movement."
Nice job, LaTimes.
And, while we're talking fashion, Erin, at DressaDay uncharacteristically blows it. Erin, that's an ugly dress and those shoes are all wrong for it. For, Goddess, sake, just tell the poor girl. WTF is with that blue border that fights with the print that is already fighting with the maroon border? Ugh. Ugh.
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