File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-06-16.223, message 239


Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:17:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Digital Disney Stys
From: jya-AT-pipeline.com (John Young)


"Calvin-tucked and -stretched" is lingo from the Fashion Institute of
Design about prostheticizing the body -- by frightfully expensive,
sometimes artful, surgery and couture: over-taunt glistening skin and
too-wide eyes appended to flaccid-body-cammie-clothing, rancid decrepitude
open-casketed embalmic-youthful. 
 
 
That's what you hear hanging in the FIT lobbies on West 27th Street, where
some of the brightest designers in the Galaxy are training in haute-minded
bas-mishapery of the walking dead and wannabe Immortals. 
 
 
A few days ago the ebullient chat there was Disney's call for
cyber-costumers of all design stripes (archi, interior, couture,
accessories, film, you name it) to dress the actual and virtual Beauties
and Beasts aborning in the titanic board rooms and creative conferences. 
 
 
The youngsters were clapping and dancing that NYC is soon to replace LA as
the locale most prostheticized for B&B, cyber-enhanced private parts via
rich, public architecture (and, yes, don't waste time, just fuck the
poverty-drenched arts which do not generate enough economic opportunity). 
 
 


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