NYFW backstage beauty: The Chinese military meets ’40s Hollywood at Jason Wu
NYFW style snaps: We’re at Peter Som and Jason Wu, and so are Grace Coddington, Kate Lanphear, and Olivia Palermo
NYFW diary: The dispatch from day one including Jason Wu’s updated Mao jacket, Rag & Bone’s granny mishmash, and Suno’s sweet, sweet garden print
They said/We said: Kate Moss battles good and evil (like, really evil!) in a new W photoshoot
NYFW style snaps: We spy many fur coats, lots of studded leather, and is that Waris Ahluwalia?
Archive for Sarah Nicole Prickett
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | January 30th, 2012 | 12:30 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Fixer
Meaning: One who fixes—in the sense of arranging—illegal or semi-illegal things. Not a criminal, but a means to crime.
Usage: “Well, he misspoke.” “About what? That you’re the firms fixer? Or that you’re any good at it?” — Michael Clayton (2007)
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett | January 27th, 2012 | 2:00 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Demotic
Meaning: Of/relating to ordinary, plain-spoken, colloquial language; vernacular.
Usage: “[Smith's] verses were resolutely demotic, even as she played with the imagery that Rimbaud drew from the Bible and Eliphas Lévi and fairy tales and illustrated geographies, and she deployed this imagery even as she devoted poems to Edie Sedgwick, Marianne Faithfull, and Anita Pallenberg.”
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett | January 26th, 2012 | 1:00 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Blackgeoisie
Meaning: A “new” class of African Americans with money and “fashion power.” (Just typing this, I shuddered.)
Usage: “But if in 2012 the “black-geoisie” has integrated all the white codes, it does not [do so] literally. [There] is always a classic twist, with a bourgeois ethnic reference (a batik-printed turban/robe, a shell necklace, a ‘créole de rappeur’) that recalls the roots.” — a French Elle writer named Nathalie Dolivo in “Black Fashion Power”
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett | January 25th, 2012 | 12:30 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Bashtag
Meaning: A Twitter hashtag (you know, the categorical or punchline-type coda to your tweet) meant to insult, or bash, what you’re tweeting about.
Usage: “Expect to see #bashtag appearing soon in slide decks on social media across the land. It is a very simple way to describe what advertisers don’t want to happen.” — Alexis Madrigal on the Atlantic wire
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett | January 24th, 2012 | 1:00 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Sangfroid
Meaning: Coolness and imperturbability in the face of difficult things.
Usage: “They looked like everybody else, nondescript. They shared in the torpor of the town and in its puerile agitations. They lost every trace of a critical spirit, while gaining an air of sang-froid.” — Albert Camus, The Plague
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett | January 23rd, 2012 | 1:00 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Camarilla
Meaning: A private, often secret, even sinister group of unelected advisors surrounding a leader or ruler; a cabal.
Usage: “SEKVIA’S DARK OUTLOOK; King Peter Dominated by the Military Camarilla. Prospects Are That Radicals Will Win at Approaching Election—King Peter May Then Leave the Country.” – a New York Times cablegram in 1903. (Sekvia, by the way, was in the Balkans… I think.)
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett | January 20th, 2012 | 12:30 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Holarchy
Meaning: A universal structure in which each component, or holon, is both a part and a whole; both separate and part of something bigger.
Usage: “Humanity is amalgamating into a collective intelligence, a global brain, able to react and respond to threats as a holarchy, without centralized control.” — Daniel Pinchbeck in Dazed & Confused Read more »
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | January 19th, 2012 | 12:30 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia; also spelled hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Spot the difference!
Meaning: The fear of long words.
Usage: “Those who find this column troubling are suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia—the fear of long words. Or, more likely, rupophobia0—a fear of rubbish.” — Chris Lloyd, The Northern Echo, quote via Wiktionary.
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