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Colorful Layers of Sedimentary Rock (Valley of Fire, Nevada) by Sean Bagshaw.
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JOHN WATERS on REI KAWAKUBO:
Fashion is very important to me. My “look” for the last 20 years or so has been “disaster at the dry cleaners.” I shop in reverse. When I can afford to buy a new outfit, something has to be wrong with it. Purposely wrong. Comme des Garçons (like some boys) is my favorite line of clothing, designed by the genius fashion dictator Rei Kawakubo. She specializes in clothes that are torn, crooked, permanently wrinkled, ill-fitting, and expensive. What used to be called “seconds” (clothes that were on sale in bargain basements of department stores because of accidental irregularities) is now called “couture.” Ms. Kawakubo is my god. The fashion historian Kazuko Koike has described Rei as “almost like the leader of a religious movement.” I genuflect to Rei’s destruction of the fashion rules. She is formidable, reclusive, intimidating, and has described her work as an “exercise in suffering.”
Ms. Kawakubo’s reviews have mostly been brilliant but the bad ones make me prouder to wear her clothes: “unwearable,” “postatomic,” “that shrunken, hopeless look,” “as threadbare and disheveled as Salvation army rejects,” and, best of all, “fashion is having a nervous breakdown.” “I’m always more or less annoying,” Kawakubo admitted to Judith Thurman in a revealing 2005 New Yorker profile. Wearing what Ms. Thurman describes as “Rei’s favorite accessory – a dour expression,” Kawakubo admitted that, between collections, she and her husband, Adrian Joffe (president of her company, who sees her once a month), “travel to Yemen or Romania” for … what? Fun? when asked by Thurman, “What makes Rei laugh?” she answered without a smile, “People falling down.
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CHAPPELL ROAN
performing at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards — September 11, 2024
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Top Fifteen Wilhelmina Slater Quotes
"I could make an effort to be liked but I'd rather be hated than inconvenienced."
"I'm hellaciously upset, Marc."
"Good luck returning my ass!"
"All I wanted to do was run a fashion magazine. I was a simple girl with an evil plan."
"Look at them falling over themselves to get a quote - as if he actually knew a thing about fashion. The man saw Vera Wang's spring line and gave her a high five."
"The only person you can depend on in this world is yourself."
"Taste is having the courage of your convictions."
"It'll be the greatest comeback since Jesus."
"I'm a bitch. I'm a stone cold bitch. My favourite part of my day is throwing out my breakfast muffin in front of a homeless person."
"She got community service. If I'd known this is how the system worked, I'd have tried to kill more often."
"Are those gladiator sandals? Are we in Ancient Rome? Will you be wrestling a lion? Take those off." (to random female Mode employee) "Burn these." (to Marc) "You're fired." (to the female Mode employee)
"I'm not lonely, I'm horny."
"I will not be constantly overruled by two silly white boys."
"You're not here to stitch, you're here to snitch."
"I'm going hunting later today. Feel free to walk in front of my gun."
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Three young barn owls standing in the stone quatrefoil of Christ Church, Fulmodeston.
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