Saturday, May 03, 2008
Experimenting with New Ink
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Home-grown Fashion
Designer clothes are not just to be found on the catwalk. They can be seen as people design their own clothes in a home-grown style.
While looking for a photo of yalda celebrations this year, I ran into this interesting photo from the scene of The Fourth International Painting Biennial of The Islamic World in Tehran, Iran.
Click on it and you'll see a larger image at Flickr.
I believe the biennial started in the last week of November, and it looks like it ended today,
December, 21, 2006.
Here are some other pictures I found.
It would be good to see more photographs of this
exhibition. (As another example, check out this work.) There does not seem to be a website for the biennial or one that actually displays all the paintings.
I believe my friend, and ex-Berkeley-ite, Bobak Etminani,
also has several paintings on display in the biennial.
Fashion in Box-Office Hit in Iran
The Persian (Iranian) box office hit of last year was Tahmineh Milani's Cease Fire. In the movie, we also see a full display of modern fashion in Iran for women as well as men. |
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Prada and the Devil
We ended up at The Devil Wears Prada.
As usual Meryl Streep has produced a tremendous performance, and I wish I could have said this is a must for those interested in questions of fashion but the movie's main focus is about a young woman growing up as a professional in New York and finding her way through her first real job as an administrative assistant for the executive editor of a fashion mangazine. The movie, which comes with a script worthy of a play (otherwise, I would have wondered about Streep), does provide a little boost for the world of fashion but the effort remains subtle and faints away in the main stroy.
While the Devil may wear Prada, so does the Pope!