There is a game that Detroiters play upon first meeting, tossing our respective qualifiers back and forth to track the commonalities and differences among us. Are you an eastsider or a westsider? What neighborhood are you from? Where did you go to elementary, middle and most importantly high school? To […]
Month: March 2024
Hollywood’s Archival Fashion Arms Race
The Oscars have come and gone. Designers were worn and shown off, specifically those of yesteryear. In the current red carpet climate, stylists have grown bold in their archive pulls, or desperate. It depends on who you ask. There’s a fashion war that rages behind the scenes of each awards […]
Versace Celebrated the Oscars With Icons Only
To kick off Oscars weekend, Donatella Versace, Alison Loehnis and NET-A-PORTER hosted a very exclusive cocktail party in Los Angeles to celebrate of the brand’s icons in music, film, fashion and television. The party was a continuation of the brand’s Versace Icons events, which have included dinners in New York […]
Sally Potter's Smartphone Cinema Provokes 'Rage' 15 Years Later
“Smartphone cinema” could sound to one like an oxymoron, but Sally Potter, the British filmmaker behind such essential works as Orlando, Ginger and Rosa and The Party, does not see the utility in such distinctions. There must be some way, she believes, to merge the syntax of cinema with the […]