Fashion Photography – Miuccia Prada’s fall collection tonight dealt with women oblivious of fads, brands, red carpets and warnings about taking the extra helping. The figure she imagined was voluptuous, her bust delineated with darts and dimply ruffles, her waist where it naturally belongs and her hips somewhere under pleats.
At times, in a burgundy sweater-and-skirt set or a sleeveless print top and matching slacks, she brought to mind Kim Novak; at others, Madame Tito. The world of women is vast, Ms. Prada seemed to be saying, and not everyone is a teenage runway zombie.
Ms. Prada loves to examine our sentimentality about women and beauty, and in some respects this was her most assertive anti-fashion statement in awhile. Something about these clothes — the matronly dresses, the classic cable-knits — felt so outside current fashion and obsessions as to be but a distant squeal from a 60s fondue party. True, some of the outfits almost dared you to call them ugly. But the methods of examination have begun to feel dated.
Fashion Photography – Whether flying through the air looking weightless or spinning so fast that they turn into a blur, figure skaters at the Olympics often make their sport look easy.
Making it look doubly easy are Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett, who were the top American pairs team heading into the Vancouver Winter Games. They trained together for just 18 months — a relatively brief time in the world of pairs skating — before becoming national champions in January.
“It takes some pairs a long time to find their timing and feel comfortable together, but with Caydee and Jeremy, that timing was natural, as if they were born to skate with each other,” said Jim Peterson, who coaches the pair at the Ellenton Ice and Sports Complex in Ellenton, Fla. “We knew that very first day they skated together that they would be something big. We never once thought, ‘Hmm, how are we going to make this work?’ It just did.”
Although Mr. Barrett, 25, and Ms. Denney, 16, did not win a medal this month, they are viewed as rising stars. The last time the United States won an Olympic medal in pairs skating was in 1988, and they hope to someday break that drought.
So they will continue doing what they do best: Gliding across the ice in unison. Performing daredevil tricks. Doing things that look spectacular and dangerous. Mr. Barrett throws Ms. Denney and she sails and whirls several feet off the ground before landing on one foot. He lifts her and she soars, precariously balanced on just one of his hands. Read more »
Fashion Photography – Miuccia Prada’s fall collection tonight dealt with women oblivious of fads, brands, red carpets and warnings about taking the extra helping. The figure she imagined was voluptuous, her bust delineated with darts and dimply ruffles, her waist where it naturally belongs and her hips somewhere under pleats.