Labels: 2011, dior, fall, givenchy, haute couture, jean paul gaultier

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Labels: Charlie Le Minou, Lady Gaga

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Labels: Darcy Padilla, The Julie Project

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"The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Twenty-four undergraduates were selected out of over 75 to play the prisoners and live in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Roles were assigned randomly. The participants adapted to their roles well beyond what even Zimbardo himself expected, leading the guards to display authoritarian measures and ultimately to subject some of the prisoners to torture. In turn, many of the prisoners developed passive attitudes and accepted physical abuse, and, at the request of the guards, readily inflected punishment on other prisoners who attempted to stop it. The experiment even affected Zimbardo himself, who, in his capacity as "Prison Superintendant," lost sight of his role as psychologist and permitted the abuse to continue as though it were a real prison. Five of the prisoners were upset enough by the process to quit the experiment early, and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days. The experimental process and the results remain controversial. The entire experiment was filmed, with excerpts soon made publicly available, leaving some disturbed by the resulting film. Over 30 years later, Zimbardo found renewed interest in the experiment when the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal occurred." [via wiki]

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"Ronald Ophuis is one of the artists who, at the end of the twentieth century, has chosen to work in this introverted medium. Dog-gedly he persists in the search for a position which will endow his painting with a greater significance. Ophuis achieves this by placing the relation of painting to reality at the forefront of his practice. Besides a series of smaller paintings, in recent years Ophuis has painted five large canvases depicting a range of violent subject matter. Although these been exhibited in various places, at Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam, all the 'five paintings about violence' will be exhibited together for the first time. These works, which were made between 1995 and 1997, present acts of physical, sexual and psychological violence. In these bleak canvases, in which a process of scraping away and building up paint leaves underlying layers filtering through the upper surface, Ophuis usually presents the violence in a highly direct and confrontational manner. In a few instances, as in the painting of three men in a shower, this violence is only implied, suggesting a deep underlying tension." [Via SMBA]

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the graying in your hair strands as the light hits your roots embodies the soul of which you traded for a pair of twizzler earrings. Never understood how or why it is that you felt the need to crack your lips, they bleed, they callous, they push away. Not sure if it is you who feels the need to be so Arctic or the feeling of embarrassment you felt after you were humiliated by the clowns that lurked in the darkness. All I can say is that when you bury yourself, you also adorn the edges with nails.

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We all know Naomi, don't we? Well regardless of what you think of her, I think it's pretty cool to have a model who is 40 years old and black still working the print and runways. I can't even say that about any other model. She's been there since the beginning of the change of the runways and for that I think she stands as a symbol of ability. The interview was ok, nothing too new. Naomi lives in Russia though, she traveled a lot and her mom ( a very well known dancer) taught her how to walk, she lived in Rome until she was 4.

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