MetaFilter posts tagged with vogue

It wasn't an aesthetic statement, really.

Alterity — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:00:26 -0800

"American Pastoral" inadvertently reveals Brooks and Halard to be deeply insecure, crass noveau riche, lowballing their renovations by hiring desperate, dirt-cheap Chinese laborers, and whining about maids who can't get to work on time, just because Hurricane Sandy knocked out train service. Where's the Vogue-style profiles of those poor souls? In the pantheon of repulsive celebrations of New York's most precious resource—the idle rich—Vogue's "American Pastoral" spread is a Mona Lisa snarl, a Gucci jackboot, everything smug, evil and cruel about the one percent, distilled, bottled and sprayed in your eyes. It's not enough anymore to be fabulously rich; the hoi polloi must have some faint awareness that there exist people with rooftop Elizabethan gardens and 40 feet of "unfinished 300-year-old white oak" for a kitchen counter.

Illustrated Covers of British Vogue from 1909 Through 1940

netbros — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:49:44 -0800

The Art of Vogue Covers details the illustrated covers of British Vogue from 1909 through 1940, including the entire collection of covers between 1920-1930. Most of the work showcased is by seasoned Vogue illustrators Helen Dryden, Georges Lepap, Harriett Maserol, George Plank and Eduardo Benito amongst others. Look for continuing additions at the Flickr set. This is literally just the tip of the iceberg.

Voguing: Old Way & New Way

stoneweaver — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:41:25 -0800

Two short documentaries about voguing - 1989 and 2011. An evolution of a dance form and a subculture.

Voguing: The Message traces the roots of this gay, Black and Latino dance form, which appropriates and plays with poses and images from mainstream fashion. Voguing competitions parody fashion shows and rate the contestants on the basis of movement, appearance and costume. This tape is a pre-Madonna primer that raises questions about race, sex and subcultural style. [Dir. Jack Walworth, David Bronstein & Dorothy Low 1989 13 min.]

VOGUE: A Twist on the Dance Floor is an intimate look into modern day voguing and how it's leaving a big impression even today. Starring legendary vogue fem Dashaun Evisu. [Dir. Danilo Parra, Produced by Dashaun Wesley; 2011 11 min.] Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the poor, African American and Latino gay and transgendered community involved in it. Many consider Paris Is Burning to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the "Golden Age" of New York City drag balls, as well as a thoughtful exploration of race, class, and gender in America. [wikipedia] Bonus Videos

Old School Vs. New School Vogue
A two minute Vogue history primer from the 2006 documentary How do I Look. [Trailer] [wikipedia]
Vogue: Dips & Drops
vogue battle: house dance international, NYC
Fem Queen - including entrance by dropping from a balcony

[Previously][All videos potentially NSFW - use your discretion]

Frank Ocean was not the first

filthy light thief — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:29:31 -0800

“I am gay, and I’m proud to be called a gay rapper, but it’s not gay rap. That’s not a genre. My goal is always to make songs that a gay dude or a straight dude can listen to and just think, This dude has swag.... The best thing a song can be called is good.” Rapper/producer Le1f, in a short bio article on Fader, which mentions Le1f being swept up with the "more outlandish" (as Fader writer Alex Frank puts it) House of LaDosha and Mykki Blanco. The Guardian has another piece on the rise of gay rappers, but the Amoeba blog was there first in 2008, covering a bit of the New Orleans sissies. More videos and music directly linked inside (and you can assume the music and videos are NSFW). In the New Orleans Bounce scene, Katey Red, a gay, transvestite MC, was the first artist to perform as an openly gay artist, releasing her album in 1999 (title track). Big Freedia and Sissy Nobby picked up the torch from there. You can dive into the music with 53 minute Sissy Nobby party mixtape, or check out Dre Skull's Sissy Bounce mix. From there, we travel north to Brooklyn. House of LaDosha is a duo who were earlier associated with the witch house sound, as heard in Witches of Bushwick. Dosha Devistation, half of HoLD, released B/M/F, which was less witchy, but still far from mainstream rap styles. Cokeola of HoLD rapped over a Trap Music track from Gunplay, moving from witch house to trap music, more or less. Mykki Blanco is the drag persona of Michael David Quattlebaum Jr.. As Quattlebaum, he wrote a book of poetry, which was passed to Mykki and became an EP that is more punk than hip-hop, though there's something of the latter in Join My Militia a song that clearly displays Blanco's use of "hip-hop as a performance medium." Zebra Katz, stage name of Ojay Morgan, has been big since Rick Owens played the Katz' song on repeat for a Paris fashion show. Katz got to geek out and meet Owens, with the meeting filmed for posterity and education, with Katz mentioning Paris is Burning (wiki; covered previously) as an eye-opening film for him. And that brings us to Le1f, the Manhattan native who started out as a producer, hanging out with Himanshu from Das Racist, and providing the beats for Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (previously). Later, he produced Nasty for Spank Rock (the track featured Big Freedia, to make this whole journey more circular). Le1f then branched out and started rapping, as seen and heard in his debut video, Wut. If the lyrics or their meanings elude you, Rap Genius has you covered. This track is from Le1f's debut mixtape/album, Dark York (Soundcloud stream with individual track downloads, and a link to download the whole thing).

VOGUE

hermitosis — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:12:08 -0800

"I performed to MADONNA's "VOGUE" in the summer of 1991 when my parents took me to Hampton Beach Casino in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. A business in the casino at the time gave tourists the chance to lip-synch to their favorite pop songs in front of a blue screen background, and I was lucky enough to partake that summer."

Wrap yourself in silken stones

likeso — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:28:03 -0800

Richard Weston is not only a professor of architecture at Cardiff University. He is now a fashion designer. Being interviewed by Vogue. Beautiful Weston silk scarves printed with scans of minerals, fossils and stones are now on sale at London's historic department store Liberty. It all came about thanks to a new BBC2 show called The Next Big Thing hosted by entrepreneur Theo Paphitis of Dragon's Den fame. Four large British retailers in search of unique new products opened their doors to designers, artists and... professors. The scarves and the show are a hit not only according to Vogue, but also The Independent, makeitdigital, and The Arts Desk. In the Vogue interview, Weston says his students are still struggling with his new-found fashion status. "I suspect most are bemused - a middle-aged, overweight professor with higgledy-piggledy teeth is the antithesis of designer-stereotypes."

Dictator Chic

iviken — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:01:03 -0800

February 25, 2011: Vogue calls her "a rose in the desert": "Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies." (Wikipedia about her husband: "He has been criticized for his disregard for human rights, economic lapses, sponsorship of terrorism, and corruption.") November 2010 in Italian Vogue: "Mihriban Aliyev, First Lady of Azerbaijan, tall and slim, a minimal style, H.R.H. Lalla Selma, wife of Mohammed VI King of Morocco, who wears the best designer clothes with a preference for a sober and elegant look. Sheikha Mozah, Queen of Qatar, who has own personal style with her magnificent turbans and miss-match of colors. The wife of the Syrian President, Alma Al Assad. It's nice to see that each one of them with their beauty, class and sophistication, has her own way of interpreting fashion. (...) Any criticism? They get some because they are so exposed, the media never let down a detail or a mistake. It's part of their role and they keep on smiling and looking beautiful, charming and convincing." The Guardian rudely calls some of these chic fashion leaders "Ice Queens". How and why did Vogue get access to the First Lady of Syria? Has Syria learned something from the way Libya courted Western press and people of influence? After all, back in 2007, Professor Lord Anthony Giddens wrote, after meeting Muammar Gadafy: "If Gadafy is sincere about reform, as I think he is, Libya could end up as the Norway of North Africa. (...) As one-party states go, Libya is not especially repressive. Gadafy seems genuinely popular. (...) Will real progress be possible only when Gadafy leaves the scene? I tend to think the opposite."

Up Yours, XXI

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:31:32 -0800

Rumors I've Heard About Anna Wintour

September-issue reviews: Covers of fashion mags dissected

joeclark — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:54:17 -0800

Sarah Nicole Prickett, who, as an interesting fashion writer, is something of a rarity, reviews the covers of September fashion issues for Toronto’s Eye Weekly (Part 1; Part 2). It is, on the whole, a sorry lot. Just for instance: “The September issue of British Vogue stars Kate Moss, for no other reason than six months have passed and she is still not dead or, worse, fat.... The level of fail can’t be expressed even in Caps Lock.”

Glee Covers Vogue

zarq — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:46:51 -0800

The show Glee has created a remake of Madonna’s original Vogue music video, starring Jane Lynch. It's part of a promotional campaign for their upcoming (4/20) “Madonna” episode. Available at: Hulu, Fox, and Yahoo. There's also a crappy-quality reversed version on Youtube. I apologize if any of these videos are not available outside of the US and/or Canada. I tried to include additional link options, so as many people as possible could watch.

Vogue

zarq — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:38:26 -0800

Vogue Italia relaunched their website last week (in Italian and English / pictures on the site may be NSFW,) with three new subsites catering to specific fashion industry demographics: Vogue Curvy (focusing on plus-sized models, actresses and celebrities,) Vogue Black (men and women of color,) and Vogue Talents (veteran and up-and-coming designers. "Talents" also encourages hopeful designers to submit their work for review.) "Curvy" and "Black" in particular have received some positive and negative attention and some wonder whether separating those two fashion categories is truly inclusive. Vogue responds.

Table for Two

Mike Buechel — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:26:43 -0800

Jeffrey Steingarten thought Gisele didn't like him and Susie Essman wasn't surprised. They gave Gisele her favorite part: crispy penis. Susie said, "Nothing like crispy penis."

According to Jeffrey, salad is a silent killer. He claims almost every plant has a chemical in it that helps defend itself from the outside world. If we eat too much of it, we're basically eating poison.

The general rule is you don't let the women at the table tell you there's enough food.

Realness

nosila — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:00:44 -0800

Dorian Corey was the articulate elder stateswoman of the New York City ball scene featured in the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning. When she died in 1993, police found the body of a murdered man 15 years mummified in her apartment. In December 2008, a message popped up in a thread from 2007 at the Motherboards, a forum dedicated to NYC nightlife and alternative lifestyles. It was posted by a man claiming to be the off-duty police officer who found the body in Corey's apartment after she died. He says he wants to set the record straight, though according to most sources I can find (including the Cunningham article linked below), Corey did that herself with a note that said that the man broke into her apartment and she was forced to murder him. Unfortunately, what is likely the most definitive article on the debacle appears to be unavailable online. Vogueing, brought to the surface of culture by Madonna, originated in the ball culture. Though Dorian herself was of the older Vegas showgirl-inspired feathers and sequins school (so she says in Paris is Burning), she too could vogue with the best of them. According to the Village Voice, Paris was still burning circa 2001: In reality, Madonna's video and Livingston's film were station stops on a cultural continuum, affectionate but voyeuristic peeks into a tradition dating back to the 19th century and going strong into the 21st. Even 16 years after the documentary Paris Is Burning shed light on New York City's gay underground house ball scene, misconceptions linger about the scene's past, present and future. (from 2007) The Hours author Michael Cunningham writes about Angie, Dorian, and the ball and house cultures in The Slap of Love (Part 2). Consider another tragedy of racial, class, and sexual subordination–the life and death of Venus Xtravaganza (Dorian Corey's voice narrates the beginning of the clip and describes the Realness category in the balls), a young, poor, Puerto Rican, transsexual male [also] featured in the film Paris is Burning.

vogue hates teh skinny

Antidisestablishmentarianist — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:54:42 -0800

Vogue is now frequently "retouching" phptographs to make models look larger...

This post is supposed to be uncool, for effect--really!

hadjiboy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:19:30 -0800

Who decides what's cool? And what is the effect that it is having on our society (previously linked to metafilter on multiple occasions). An interview with the author of Birth of The Cool, and articles on how Conglomerates and Countries are trying to increase their "cool" quotient. Finally, a look at how coolness is experienced in different cultures.

Everybody Sues in Hollywood

archimago — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:14:52 -0800

Madonna's being sued for stealing images from Guy Boudin's photography and using them in her Hollywood video. Here are side by sides. When does imitation/homage become theft? And who gets to decide? Should she have been sued for using this image in her vogue video?

Everybody Vogue. Well, really just the thin people.

GaelFC — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:36:43 -0800

Everybody Vogue. Well, really just the thin people. Vogue Magazine gets a tongue-lashing from Slate. Seems the fashion mag attempted a "body diversity" issue, but their idea of a large-size model is a size 8. Excerpt: "If "tall" and "short" and "pregnant" are body types, and Minnie Driver is "curvy," there's no need to admit the existence of the bottom-heavy, let alone try to dress the poor bastards."