Word: neon
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...rest of the tracks seem like throwbacks to a time that to many younger listeners just sounds too eighties. “Dara Factor Two” opens with the brushes of a synth-heavy pop song and can’t manage to recover, conjuring up images of neon pink and black outfits and primitive special effects in music videos...
Gaultier showed an equally commercial collection of slouchy athletic-inspired dresses over neon-bright fishnet stockings. Like Galliano, Gaultier has never been at a loss for ideas. And he celebrated his 30th anniversary in fashion by marching every one of those bad-boy notions down his runway--from the prescient 1976 leather motorcycle-jacket look to Madonna's cone-bra dress. Every look came off as current, which is why Gaultier is so good. He knows how to break the rules and keep his clothes classic. Fashion could do worse when looking for a new engine: create that which...
...refuse to wear anything except neon spandex. Will that be a problem...
...work has centered around the idea of "image." By that, he doesn't mean simply photographs, posters or films, though lots of Hollywood examples turn up in his conversation. "Image is imaginary," he says, "right?" And to whom does the image belong? Celebration Park opens with a giant neon sculpture saying, "I do not own Tate Modern or the Death Star." Other neon signs, all beginning with the words "I do not own," follow, disavowing possession of such cultural icons as Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and John Cage's noteless musical composition 4'33", both of which, like...
...Another neon sign says Huyghe doesn't own Snow White. And his four-minute film about Lucie Dolène, the actor who did the voice-over of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in its 1962 French version, further examines the blurry lines between art and artist. In Snow White Lucie (1997), Dolène faces a camera in an empty film studio and sings Some Day My Prince Will Come. In subtitles she explains how Disney continued to use her voice without permission, how she sued - and won. But at the poignant frontier between image and reality, memory...