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He’s sold over 20 million albums. He’s won four Grammys. Yet Spanish balladeer and pop singer Alejandro Sanz opened his visit to the University last night with a confession: “My mother was just so proud when I said I was going to Harvard...
...would seem that quite the opposite would be true at first glance. Move undergraduates across the river, place them right down next to the Soldiers’ Field Complex, and maybe, just maybe, more of them will just pop into Lavietes Pavilion on a Friday evening to catch a basketball game prior to a party or drunkenly stumble into Harvard Stadium the next morning to catch a home game that isn’t The Game...
...long been one of those things that anyone can do (badly), and in the MP3 age, its gotten even easier to do (and, logic dictates, worse-sounding): pimply techheads everywhere are filling the internet with cryable cross-genre “mash-ups” of old and new pop songs (cf. Jay Z’s lyrics on top of Pavement, Weezer, Sgt. Pepper). Erstwhile DJ, dork-stud and half of the folksy Kings of Convenience Erlend Oye doesn’t need to prove his musical chops, and as the DJ Kicks logo indicates, he?...
...question remains of how one propels a 50 year-old niche-market brand into a post-modern pop-culture-style-fashion-celebrity world. For Pulitzer, it took the marketing prowess of a husband-and-wife Harvard MBA pair to take Lilly out of retirement and reinvigorate her brand. The new Pulitzer slogan “Life. Lilly. And the Pursuit of Happiness” has pushed forward the All-American positioning of venerable designers like Ralph Lauren by adding a new dimension that is fun, light-hearted and, most importantly, accessible. Lilly’s vapid elitism is obscured...
...tandem. An intoxicating dose of adrenaline and energy pulsed back and forth between the audience and the impossibly gorgeous figures onstage. On the evening of Friday, April 23, the only constant was the nostalgia-stimulant hip-hop roaring from the speakers, as the audience journeyed through four decades of pop culture fashion at Eleganza: Harvard’s annual spectacle of style...