Rag-picking
Fashion critics are heaping praise on Alexander McQueen’s Fall/Winter 2009/10 collection, but for all the wrong reasons. McQueen’s clothes are impeccably tailored and gloriously styled (if a touch specific — on a few dresses, a houndstooth pattern morphs into birds, as if McQueen had hired M.C. Escher as his fabric maker). But what is really [...]
Second-hand Rose / She's wearing second-hand clothes
Bebe Sahara Benet, a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race
Some of us here at The Next in Line, wrestling with dissertation deadlines and mid-winter blues, have found relief in an unlikely source: the Logo show RuPaul’s Drag Race. Some people have described it as a parody of the typical reality-TV show competition. But there’s actually little [...]
