Killer Movie Wardrobes

Ten killer movie wardrobes:

1. 13 Going on 30

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Have It Your Way

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Why Isn’t The Cast Of Hunger Games Starving?

Trendy pop culture topic of the day — what everyone who’s anyone is talking about — Hunger Games.  I am not, god forbid, going to talk about the merits of the movie — that is a different blog, in addition to which, I haven’t seen the movie yet.  I read (and loved) the books, but am still waiting for my YA movie buddy to dig herself out from under her work to go see it.  But I feel entirely equipped to enter in on the ridiculous argument which seems to be all the buzz about the casting choices in the film, and more specifically, Jennifer Lawrence’s figure and weight.

Most of the argument seems to go, “Katniss is supposed to be lean, Jennifer Lawrence is too fat.”  ”How can you call Jennifer Lawrence fat?  She is not fat.”  ”She doesn’t look like she’s athletic or anything.” “Yeah, and how is your figure?  At least Jennifer Lawrence looks real and not like a stick.”  ”Folks, Suzanne Collins, the author, signed off on the casting for god’s sake and she knows what the characters look like better than you do so you’re an idiot to question it.” blah blah blah.  Admittedly an inane argument, and beside the point, but at the core of it I think are some real issues that feed into common misconceptions about movie casting and the importance of precise physical appearance on the whole.

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Thank Goodness Nothing Is Sacred

My apologies to anyone who has been struggling to get this blog to load over the last couple of days.  The site seems to be having some maintenance issues that are slowing down its performance — and getting in the way of my being able to publish posts.  I appreciate your patience while I work to resolve these issues.

Phew!  In light of my computer related frustrations, today’s post is essentially just a humorous breath of fresh air.  Illustrator Hillary White does, among other things, some very clever “pop-Reinterpretations” of a number of “master” paintings (“master” is in quotes because I am falling back on that word, for lack of a better word, to denote fairly well known paintings by fairly well known artists — some more obscure than others — rather than to suggest that the paintings referenced were in fact particularly great moments in the history of art).

Hillary White "Alien the Terrible"

Ilya Repin "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan"

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Everyone’s Got A Designer In His Pocket

Lest we think for a minute that any corner of the retail market is immune to the designer capsule collection trend, J. Crew joins in the fun with the mother of all designer collaborations — Manolo Blahnik.

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