Profile: Christy DeSmith
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Creep Show Couture
Fashioning a Movement
To highlight our semi-annual selection of new fashion, we turned to a population that—let’s face it, unfair as it seems—looks delightful no matter what they’re wearing. Our models are four dance students at the University of Minnesota and their choreographer (who moonlights as The Rake’s stylist); we captured them during a rehearsal at the Barbara Barker Center for Dance on the Minneapolis campus.
Off to Mexico
Sick of winter much? Can you bear another cold day of having to bulk up? Me either! That's why I'm checking out for Mexico, yo. Feast your eyes on this: the adorable, but nonetheless scanty, romper I procured for the occasion (as modeled by the much thinner-than-me office floor).
Dunking the Fishtank
Fishtank: n. a diffuse, silent comedy ostensibly done in the spirit of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati. I couldn't help but make comparisons to Play Time, my favorite Tati flick (I just re-watched the restaurant scene last week). This was Tati's all-out screed on modernist architecture, if you'll
Wilson’s: Loss of jobs and my junior-high jacket
When was the last time you entered a Wilson's? For me, it's been a while. But the trip that's forever etched in my memory goes all the way back to junior high. My sister had just scored a cool Michael Jackson Thriller-style red windbreaker. Not wanting to be outdone, I commenced to scour the shopping mall for my own status jacket. Eventually I settled on a black suede bomber from Wilson's that had a lil' feminine flourish: a tiny puff at each shoulder (the closest approximation of a Juliet sleeve that
