Archive for January 11th, 2010
Derelicte: Trashy Clothes Are So in Right Now
In the movie “Zoolander,” fictional fashion guru Mugatu focuses his entire clothing line around the homeless. His new “Derelicte” campaign boasts women in trash bag couture, black eye shadow like soot smeared across their faces. Mugatu’s superficial embrace of homeless culture provides a satirical look at fashion’s relentless search for edginess, for fashion that [...]
Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill is Just Plain Wrong
There’s a bill that has received increased attention from the American news media lately, and it isn’t about health care reform. In fact, it isn’t even a bill in Congress or in any other legislative body in the United States. It’s a bill that is making its way through the National Assembly of Uganda, a [...]
Bringing Democracy Back
“Do you support Democratizing Education?” Various forms of this phrase were scrawled across the ground in chalk and on posters along Ring Road early last Monday morning on the first day of winter quarter. By noon, some of the posters had disappeared and footsteps had carried away most of the chalk. But by then this [...]
It’s Just a Movie!
Critics at NPR and LA Weekly have railed against Disney’s portrayal of the first black princess in “The Princess and the Frog.” LA Weekly even titled its review, “Disney’s Princess Frog Can’t Escape the Ghetto.” Although this backlash has come from the minority of critics, it’s troubling to see this sort of reaction in mainstream [...]
