The best uniforms from yesterday and today’s action:
Saint Mary’s:
Kentucky:
And Texas:
Allow us to display our favorite shoes of all time, the red, low-cut, Chuck Taylor Converse All Stars.
Love the look, love the design, love the color. Love the associations with the bygone days of the NBA, neighborhoods with decorated telephone wires, and punk music. Gimme.
Yes, we shun the high tops when it comes to personal choice, but they, too, look rather fresh:
Of course, some of us are classicists.
Do you know what the trouble with a classicist is? We’ll let Lou Reed and John Cale fill ya’ll in on that one:
The trouble with a classicist, he looks at a tree;
That’s all he sees, he paints a tree.
The trouble with a classicist, he looks at the sky;
He doesn’t ask why, he just paints a sky.
Digression!
What we liked, and to hell with Joan Rivers:
Vera Farmiga - Up In The Air
Anna Kendrick - Up In The Air
Zoe Kravitz - Precious
More Oscar coverage from your friends at Basis Design!
Quick: Which female has won more Oscars than anyone in history? (No, it’s not the person who’s name sits atop the article.)
Okay, yes it is. Edith Head, ladies and gentlemen, Costume Designer extraordinaire!
Grace Kelly and Cary Grant - To Catch A Thief
Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday
Paul Newman and Robert Redford - The Sting
Grace Kelly, surely one of the more beautiful creatures ever to live, in Rear Window
Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter - The Ten Commandments
Wes Anderson movies, apart from their charm, their ironically barbed New Yorker humor, and their endearing human quality, are a tour de force of set design, presentation, framing, and costume choices. There is no director working in America or across the globe whose sense of style, whose taste for design, so completely and beautifully informs his work.
Recently Anderson’s latest creation, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, was released on DVD, and second and third viewings of his thrilling and original use of animation and stop-motion photography are well worth the cost. The dollhouse-level control and placement of detail, the use of symmetry and the emphasis on balanced compositions within wide-screen formatting, in addition to the ubiquitous dolly shots, long takes and focused, mid-shot slow motion effects used without exception in all of his films, mark him not only as the American cinemas premier auteur, but also as that rare director whose style is so personal, so pervasive, and so beguiling, that it becomes a kind of cinematic prose. Anderson’s films are so good they’re literature, and there is no higher complement that can be paid to a director reared in the French New Wave, and riding the crest of the American.
The proof in the proverbial pudding:
Some of these may seem a little familiar to lovers of the Anderson oeuvre. They are in fact semi-photographic archetypes; they speak to the way he likes to frame families, performances, and offices. More compositional brilliance here:
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Rushmore
Bottle Rocket
The Darjeeling Limited
Just because I love her.
O at Reading.
O at tea.
O at Lollapalooza.
If you don’t know, Karen O is the charismatic lead singer for art-punk/disc0-junk noise band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, bringers of good tidings of great joy and primal screams of feminist ilk. They’re a handful, but you won’t mind.
The clothes are generally made by O friend/fan Christian Joy, whose work can be found here: http://www.christianjoy.us/.
And now, the video for Basis Design’s most-favored YYY jam:
On January 8, 2010, In fashion, By Wes
So, uh… Frank Gehry, world famous architect, designed a hat. It wasn’t magical.
That hat was designed for Lady Gaga, the unfortunately named but daringly attired pop superstar to wear at a benefit for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. He designed it on his iPhone, which is just too much.